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Title: HD upgrade for my old old old xbox
Post by: madgammer on March 07, 2007, 02:58:18 pm

I have a really really old xbox, I got it about 2 months after it was released.  I already have the bios flashed and can load games from my pc, but I only have an 8gb hd.  Does anyone know a place to upgrade the HD in So cal?  I used to know a shop, but they shut down.

I would prefer not to ship because shipping would cost me $20+ round trip not including the cost of the drive I would have buy.

Title: Re: HD upgrade for my old old old xbox
Post by: pointdablame on March 07, 2007, 04:40:30 pm

do you have a modchip or is it sofmodded?  If it's a modchip, all you need to do is put in a new hard drive and run an install disc like Slayers or the AIO disk.

I don't softmod Xboxes, but I'm pretty sure the process for that is fairly similar too.  It's not hard at all.  Just unplug the cables then plug in the new drive.

Title: Re: HD upgrade for my old old old xbox
Post by: ChadTower on March 08, 2007, 08:56:15 am

I seem to remember something about softmods not giving the easy capability of locking/unlocking the drive.

Title: Re: HD upgrade for my old old old xbox
Post by: Hoagie_one on March 08, 2007, 10:18:34 am

Unlocking \ locking isn't a problem with softmods, but installing a new harddrive involves using a computer and certain software to add your old hard drives numbers to the new drive.  I never had much success with it myself, but I think I messed something up last i tried.

http://www.xbox-hq.com/html/xbox-tutorials-185.html

Title: Re: HD upgrade for my old old old xbox
Post by: tetsu96 on March 08, 2007, 12:18:23 pm

Quote from: Hoagie_one on March 08, 2007, 10:18:34 am

Unlocking \ locking isn't a problem with softmods, but installing a new harddrive involves using a computer and certain software to add your old hard drives numbers to the new drive.  I never had much success with it myself, but I think I messed something up last i tried.

http://www.xbox-hq.com/html/xbox-tutorials-185.html

Nah, it's a lot easier than that.  If you've already flashed the bios (or have a mod chip installed), then any recent installer disc will allow you to format and install the dashboard on a new drive.  AID 2.0 and up does it just fine.

Title: Re: HD upgrade for my old old old xbox
Post by: DrumAnBass on March 08, 2007, 01:30:32 pm

XBox hard drive compatibility database:

http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=list

Title: Re: HD upgrade for my old old old xbox
Post by: taternutz on March 08, 2007, 05:12:02 pm

super easy once softmodded, just follow these directions

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/203286

 :cheers:

Title: Re: HD upgrade for my old old old xbox
Post by: northerngames on March 09, 2007, 05:55:20 pm

any unlocked hdd would work and doesw not have to be locked to the mobo unless you want to boot the stock M$ dash or go live otehr then that you do not even need to lock it you could even hook both hdd's to the xbox and do a hot swap wich would transfer the file's from one hdd to the otehr then unhook them and hook the larger in a walla  ;)