New Hard Drive Frags on MSDash

[toddtmw]

Okay, I have a 1.6b XBox with a 2.6ce with the 1.6 xapt3r solderless adapter.

Before I got the chip, the box was soft-modded. I put the chip in and I can boot to Avalaunch in both chip enabled and chip not enabled mode. I reversed my soft-mod and could get to the ms dash.

So far, so good.

Then, I replaced the hard drive, used the EvolutionX disk to prep the hard drive and used the flashbios to lock it. Now, it will boot when the chip is enabled, but when I try to boot with the chip disabled, it starts to show the wireframe graphics for the ms dash and then frags with an error code 21.

If I re-do the soft-mod, it boots fine with the chip disabled.

In looking at a lot of the HD replace tutorials, they always say to do the backup from evolutionx and keep that around, but none of the tutorials seem to do anything with that folder. I'm wondering if that is the missing step... Do I need to do something with those files in the backup directory? (I didn't include them on the evox install disk when I created it.)

Any assistance or advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

-Todd

 

[TadaenSylvermane]

used evolution x to prep the drive, was that with full install? or just the format options?

 

[toddtmw]

used evolution x to prep the drive, was that with full install? or just the format options?

I downloaded NewHDEvox1.4.rar from Xbins. The read me says:

"Install a new (blank) HardDrive into your XBOX and using this cd it will prepare, format, and install the EvolutionX DashBoard, MS Dashboard, DVDX 2, BoxPlorer and ConfigMagic Final."

There is a CDrive directory that I put the contents of my C Drive into. (But I didn't put the backup directory in because that wasn't part of my original C Drive.)

I just noticed that the root of that installer has a hd.bin file in it. (It's a 512K file.) Maybe I was supposed to copy my disk.bin there? (The readme didn't mention it.)

Anyway, when I booted the disk, I selected the prepare hard drive menu chioce and that copied the CDrive stuff to the C Drive and installed all the stuff mentioned abbove. This allowed me to boot the drive and get FTP up and running. The menu for the evox installer had a "Fix Attributes" menu option. I don't know what that does so I didn't do it.

Thanks again!

-Todd

 

[baztheman]

Hi todd m8,being a noob myself i can only advice you on what ive learned so far ....

the fix attributes needs to be done because when you install a new harddisk it will be in a unlocked state which is fine for a modded xbox but when you boot to the ms dashboard it will see the drive is in a unlocked state and give a error code.

to sort the drive you need to read up on locking a harddisk but you should find the software you are using will do the job for you m8.

the only reason you need to use msdash is for running legit games online i presume?
if so i have read that some people have still been blacklisted as the harddisk can be checked by microsoft when logging in to their server and checked against a database which microsoft know all console and harddisk serials as they are matched to each individual xbox.

ps it also says a few people are not getting blacklisted with larger harddisks so its a chance you take ,best of luck with locking the drive .......baz