captainsensation wrote:...you may have to resort to putting your hdd in a chipped xbox...

My xbox is softmodded, my friend's xbox is chipped. Would it work to just swap the hdd's?

The brand of the disks could be a problem, I used a cheap brand (Platinum). I'll look out for Verbatim cd's and try it again!

Ok, I tried the auto-installer (burned the ISO to cd) but my Xbox simply won't boot the disk. It starts spinning and stops after a few seconds, then I hear the hard disk being stuck in a loop and the startup logo freezes. What to do? I read something about issues with the internal clock which makes ...

Glad to hear I'm not alone ;) Do you still have those links? I connected a working dvd drive to my xbox last week and tried to boot a cd with Heimdalls HeXEn on it. Unfortunately, the xbox did not boot it. The disk starts spinning, and it is reading something, but after a few seconds it continues to...

One more update; I tried to hotswap but no success. On the first computer (using 1 IDE cable) the hdd isn't recognized. A second computer did recognize the hdd but Xplorer360 can't find it. The Hdd was in master mode and connected directly to the IDE port using 1 cable. Also, the green light on the ...

Thank you for your replies. I do have a friend who owns an Xbox, I'll see him in 2 weeks but I hope to fix it before that. Where I live thrift and pawn shops aren't that common, in fact: this Xbox is my second one (the last one died after 13 years of service) and the only one working I could find, e...

trogggy wrote:The other way to get ftp access would be to cold boot an installer disc

Unfortunately I don't have a working cd drive in my Xbox

I just realized it makes sense the Error Recovery Mode doesn't work; it's a function of XBMC, but the xbox freezes before it can launch XBMC.

Sorry, I read the sticky but I didn't know the Error Recovery Mode is what I was looking for. Thanks, I'll give it a try! EDIT: I tried it (holding down white button and Y button) but it doesn't do anything for me. I can literally hear the harddisk being stuck in a boot-loop showing the green Xbox s...

Hi all, I was just installing XBMC 3.3.2 and everything went fine. I installed it via ftp next to the previous one which folder was named XBMC. I thought it would be easier to just rename both folders so the Xbox automatically starts up the 3.3.2 version so I named the folder 'XBMC old' and wanted t...