Ok, so i bought an xbox recently with 6 games for 30 bucks AND it is a first gen nice. Anyways, softmodding xbox's takes a little more extra software than other systems.. like the PS2. I dont feel like getting a modchip. And I want to use hotswap as a last resort...so after alot of thinking.. i was wondering why THIS method wouldnt work. Good friend of mine has a soldered chip in his XBOX. Modchips signifcantly streamline the process of installing XBMC/Linux on to your xbox. Correct? Correct. SO. what is to prevent me from taking out my retail HD and putting it in his chipped xbox, and then utilizing his modchip to format/install the software. Then swap the HD back out and into my own xbox??? Once thats done, I can upgrade to a large drive by using ftp; I havent found anything of this sort..so I was wondering why this wouldnt be an option.. wouldnt this be alot easier for people who have friends that already have chipped Xboxs
You are walking into the gates of Error Code 5- if you do all this with his xbox and stuff, your hard drive isnt going to be locked to your motherboard and its not going to work, you have to have some sort of softmod on your xbox before you can upgrade the hard drive, you must have your EEPROM.bin file
The only way to switch hard drives in an xbox is to have a mod chip installed...it the drive is not locked by the xbox it is installed in it will not boot unless the modbhip bios is present
things i have learned in the modding scene, is that things are just that much easier if you do things the way people have always claimed to do them, save yourself the headache and just pick up an action replay with orignial splinter cell , probs dirt cheap off ebay , and your all done, none of this swap bullshit. it is extremely easy.
