I think my 120gb hdd is bad so i want to hook up my original harddrive to play games until i get a new hdd. When i try to launch anything, i get service error code 09? What does that mean and what do i do so i can use the original 8gb hdd?
Xbox Error Codes "Xbox needs service" error codes explained: 1 - bootldr - Unknown exactly, something to do with checking the motherboard 2 - bootldr - Eeprom check failed 4 - bootldr - Ram check failed 5 - Kernel - HDD not locked (the retail BIOS require the hard drive to be locked) 6 - Kernel - Cannot unlock hard drive 7 - Kernel - Hard drive timeout 8 - Kernel - No hard drive found 9 - Kernel - Hard drive parameters incorrect, certain size minimum is required for debug) 10 - Kernel - DVD timeout 11 - Kernel - No DVD Found12 - Kernel - DVD parameters incorrect 13 - Kernel - Dashboard launch fail and the dashboard didn't specify why it failed. 14 - Dashboard - Error loading dashboard (dashboard generic error) 16 - Dashboard - Other files to do with dashboard / dashboard settings (specific dashboard error) 20 - Kernel - The dashboard was attempted to load and failed; It was a cold boot, and the dashboard didn't specify why it failed, but it (for some reason) needed to be noted that the dvd passed the challenge/response authentication 21 - anywhere - This error says that the machine was booted to display a error, basically someone told the machine to reboot (or launch a xbe) with this flag, and the error code just means its been rebooted by the flag Your hard drive will need to be reformatted. Taking your original XBOX HDD and just plugging it up for use should work for now. That is unless you have a chipped XBOX and not soft modded.
