how do you upgrade the hdd as i have no space here to keep my 30 xbox games and want to back them up to the xbox then sell them
Basically find a hard disk that can be locked. Then use the dumped EEPROM.bin and make a XBOXHDM disc with your EEPROM in the EEPROM folder. Follow onscreen options. Once the Hard Disk is complete, reboot XBOXHDM and lock with EEPROM. Take the hard disk out and drop it in the XBOX. If you boot up without errors, it will load to the default dashboard or UnleashX if you chose the NDURE method. OR Use Chimp to clone your Hard Disk.
Copying games to your Xbox isn't a backup, for two reasons: - The clue for the first is in the name - backup - which implies that it is a second copy. If it is your only copy (.e. you have sold the DVDs) then it isn't a backup. - The second is less semantic, and probably more important - the Xbox file system is relatively flaky, with no checking or recovery tools. This is hardly surprising, as it wasn't designed to provide mass storage for games. In your case you need to keep a primary copy and a backup, on at least two reasonable quality hard drives, both using as a minimum a file system with checking and recovery tools. Ideally one of them would be on a small server with RAID, or preferably ZFS, to avoid bit rot. Neither should be on your Xbox.
if you use chimp and manage to get your games to show on the drive you clone to you have better luck than me
Chimp is a bit of a bitch to make work right but worked for me when I went to the 40GB drive I've had on 4 different consoles now. Poor drive is probably at the end of it's life as I'm trying to find a 2TB drive that won't crap out after copying a few gigs of data in one whack.
Yes. As long as the drive has the option to be locked then it will work with the stock BIOS. just need the adapter to go from 40 pin IDE found on 3.5" drives to the 44 pin IDE format 2.5" drives use. The extra 4 pins are for the power as 2.5" IDE drives don't have the 4 pin molex power plug.
