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Title: Xbox Autoinstallers
Post by: shmokes on July 23, 2009, 01:37:18 pm

I modded an Xbox for a friend years ago.  She's been surprisingly good at figuring out how to do semi-advanced stuff like making changes via FTP for skinning XBMC and stuff like that.  But she's now managed somehow to erase all the contents of her hard drive.

At another time I'd probably just have her mail me her hard drive and I'd set it up for her again, but I'm away from home for the next couple months.  I'm wondering if there's an autoinstaller disc that will get her going.  It can't just be a disc with modding info and a few apps, but would have to have a full image of the hard drive, as she says that while her drives are still there, they are now totally empty.

I've been out of the scene for a long time.  Any help?

Title: Re: Xbox Autoinstallers
Post by: J_K_M_A_N on July 23, 2009, 02:09:24 pm

Do you have the eeprom? Or is it chipped? If chipped, she should be able to FTP back the microsoft dashboard and whatever else she needs. You would have to know what the chip is going to load when it boots though. As in what file it will load. Then she could just use that xbmc shortcut in the tools to point to a fresh install of xbmc.

J_K_M_A_N

Title: Re: Xbox Autoinstallers
Post by: shmokes on July 24, 2009, 02:24:55 pm

It's chipped with a Xenium spICE.  But she doesn't just need a new copy of XBMC.  She says every drive is blank. C:, E:, etc.

Title: Re: Xbox Autoinstallers
Post by: J_K_M_A_N on July 24, 2009, 05:46:24 pm

Well, the slayers disc has the original dash on it. She could just copy the C drive and E drive stuff over. Then she would have to figure out what the chip is booting to and just use the shortcut that comes with XBMC. Just alter the config file to point to the install directory (usually something like E:\Apps\XBMC\default.xbe). Then name the cfg file and the xbe file to the name of whatever file the chip boots on startup.

I have not used the slayers disc for anything but a virgin microsoft dash restore. It looks like she could install everything with that though. Then just update XBMC. PM me if you can't find it. I have an old copy.

J_K_M_A_N

Title: Re: Xbox Autoinstallers
Post by: northerngames on July 26, 2009, 01:12:53 am

AID3

first check to see if the space is free on the drive to be sure is actually erased and not just moved to the wrong partition or something.