Move soft modded HDD to another Xbox

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  1. Meringues

    Meringues <B>Site Supporter 2014</B>

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    Hey guys, as I mentioned in a previous post I just recently soft modded my original Xbox and installed a 500GB HDD then proceeded to fill it with emulators and ripped all of my games to it.

    This morning I ordered a crystal Xbox which I would rather have under my AV setup, so the question I have is, can I take the soft modded HDD out of my black Xbox and simply replace the one in the crystal one, or do I have to go through with the soft mod from scratch and put all the software back on it?

    I tried searching but whenever I do I just get posts about hot swapping for bricked Xbox's.
     
  2. TriMesh

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    You can't just swap it - on a soft modded box, you have to use a HDD locked with the correct key for the console.

    What you will need to do is to find the HDD key for the new box, unlock the drive and then relock it with the correct key for the new box - then it will work. So in practice you do need to soft mod the new box so you can get the EEPROM contents from it - or you could do a temporary install of a modchip to do the same thing.
     
  3. rso

    rso Gone. See y'all elsewhere, maybe.

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    Softmod your new machine, then install the old machine's eeprom on it. *Then* you can swap in your big HDD the original eeprom though, it allows you to work with the original HDD (using e.g. xboxhdm), should you want to do so later.

    I have the same eeprom on all of my Xboxes, so I can freely swap between them (I usually prep them on a properly chipped one, much more convenient than having to pay attention to not accidentally break a softmod).
     
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  4. TriMesh

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    So all your xboxes have the same MAC address? Doesn't that have ... interesting ... effects on the networking?
     
  5. Meringues

    Meringues <B>Site Supporter 2014</B>

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    I used evox to backup my original eeprom.bin, what do I do with this once its on my new xbox hdd?
     
  6. takeshi385

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    Unlock the 500gb harddrive on the xbox that it was originally in with chimp. Then softmod the crystal xbox and use chimp to lock the 500gb drive to the new xbox. Use the copy of chimp that is burned to a disc.
     
  7. sonicdude10

    sonicdude10 So long AG and thanks for all the fish!

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    Might be a bit easier to just do a TSOP flash so you won't have to worry about locking the drives ever again.
     
  8. takeshi385

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    Crystal xboxes I believe are 1.4s. Lets wait for hex1gon to chime in.
     
  9. sonicdude10

    sonicdude10 So long AG and thanks for all the fish!

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    Revisions 1.0 through 1.5 can be TSOP flashed. Just the 1.6 models have to have a chip for alternate BIOS. It's doable.
     
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    But 1.4 have 256k eeprom with limits your selection a mod chip would be better in this situation.
     
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    sonicdude10 So long AG and thanks for all the fish!

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    Evox M8+ and IND BIOS 5003 are 256K. Bonus of the IND BIOS is it has support for 128mb RAM should someone go that route. My 1.2 ran the IND BIOS when it was working.
     
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    X2 5035 ftw.
     
  13. kingkat

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    If I remember correctly, you can do this by turning on both consoles without the DVD drive plugged in, causing error 12. When you get error 12, the drive will be unlocked. Then you can swap the hard drives and then turn off both boxes, plug in the drives, then you can turn them back on and the drives should be locked to the console they are in.
     
  14. HEX1GON

    HEX1GON FREEZE! Scumbag

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    Nope 1.6 to 1.6b.

    To answer the OP. You're best to use XBOXHDM to lock the drive to the new XBOX, or just install a modchip there's really no other way unless you want to mess around with chimp.
     
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  15. Meringues

    Meringues <B>Site Supporter 2014</B>

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    Cheers for the info guys, I don't really want to go down the road of mod chips (never soldered in my life) and I don't have a windows pc to connect the HDD to so assuming the method kingkat mentioned doesn't work (??) I'll look into chimp as thats what I used for the HDD upgrade.
     
  16. HEX1GON

    HEX1GON FREEZE! Scumbag

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    Hmmm, well modchips for 1.6 are a 1 wire install, very little could go wrong. Seems like Chimp is your option though.
     
  17. Meringues

    Meringues <B>Site Supporter 2014</B>

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    Hmm, I'll look into it then, I've always wanted to get into proper modding, I want to install a bios chip in one of my Dreamcasts, I've got about 30 of 'em, perhaps I should practice my soldering skills on them hehe!
     
  18. HEX1GON

    HEX1GON FREEZE! Scumbag

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    Yeah exactly bro, I'm not very good at soldering either, but I've custom modded XBOXes, a Saturn, repaired a few gameboy games for friends. It's all a matter of over thinking it, just take your time and you'll be fine :)
     
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