Drives 3 and 4 just completed, impressive speeds for the cloning, but the F drive was not cloned properly. All of my F drive content was missing, and all of my G drive was intact. It didn't handle the partition sizes correctly. Byte by byte is definitely the way to go.

Just wanted to give a quick update. The first drive cloned perfectly fine using bit by bit. However, as mentioned it was very slow running at about 6 MB per second. Now that I have two working upgraded hard drives, I'm using both of those systems to clone two more drives. This time I selected C, E, ...

There is a check for windows drives, so you can't select that drive. ( will give you an error ) Also dd does work, it's how Chimp clones partitions, but you can't just fire a random block size it must match the drive/partition size. This is how Chimp 261812 is faster at cloning partitions as I get ...

I'm not familiar with that method, i really like the new version of Chimp though. I'm in the process of loading up the first drive with all my stuff, so I haven't started the cloning yet. However, I like the updates and being able to connector the drive before even selecting Chimp loader is great. G...

The memory stick with my linux and splinter cell save must be a little older than your softmod tool. Whenever I would do I system it would always check to see if I was on the right dashboard. Honestly, I've always updated them prior to running the splinter save. I'll update using your tools and give...

I keep trying my updater games to update to 5960 and instead of updating it just resets the game. What do I do?

Also, I should note on the main MS Dash screen there is no Xbox live listed

Good morning all - I'm working on building 6-8 units with an upgraded hard drive, and knowing the FTP copying takes so darn long when I use large drives, I'm trying to find a speedier solution. I've thought about a plan, but before giving it a try I thought I would bounce it off of you guys first so...

Well, I appreciate the help guys. This drive is officially dead, so I'm going to have to try and mod chip it. I ordered an Aladdin XT +2 chip. Here's to learning new things, cheers!

Yesterday I purchased an xbox that from what I can tell is not modded. It has some issues however. Upon first booting it, the green splash and sound would startup as usual, but then the screen would freeze at the xbox logo. My feeling was that the dash couldn't load up. Thinking that maybe it had be...

6. Orange/Red flashing Fix: Flashing Orange and Red (red and orange) usually means you have a lifted trace under the lpc pinheader(the reset signal for pin5) - especially on v1.0 motherboards. I read a tutorial last night on that fix but not really sure what I need to do to fix. I read it like I ha...

6. Orange/Red flashing Fix: Flashing Orange and Red (red and orange) usually means you have a lifted trace under the lpc pinheader(the reset signal for pin5) - especially on v1.0 motherboards. I read a tutorial last night on that fix but not really sure what I need to do to fix. I read it like I ha...

No luck, tried 2 different A/V cables.

Hit a snag this morning. I had softmodded Xbox and did a hard drive upgrade on a V1.0 system, no issues, booted fine a couple of weeks ago. Today i decided to open up the box and replace the CPU and GPU thermal paste. The heat sinks came off easy enough, cleaned the old crusty dried up paste and lay...

Hi I´m new here and I´m bring this thread from the dead! :D I upgraded my Hdd to a SATA 1TB. Everything working but after a chunck of data transfered (280GB) I cannot write more on partition F. What I did: Evtools (Bios that I used M8 1.00.5838.01) partition 6 takes the rest of drive unchecked &quo...

Just to confirm and expand on Jonny's reply - my two cents: Awesome guys thanks, I couldn't have asked for better. Just a few follow ups: 1) Regarding the adapter: The one you mentioned is a bit pricey - almost twice as much as some other "name brands" and 5-10x as much as what some have ...

Update - I bought the Red Star Tech adapter, and a 24" IDE cable, tested in the Seagate - No luck. I think I just have an issue on this drive, and it is the made in China version. I'll likely re-purpose and move on. I just built a 3rd box using a Hitachi drive. I used this same (noted above) ad...

I would suggest trying out a different SATA to IDE adapter. I usually use the same Seagate ST2000DM001 drive for my 2TB upgrades and I've noticed that some adapters work better than others. For example, this adapter will cause super long boot times just like you mentioned. There is another adapter ...

Thanks for the tips fellas, I'll try using the stock cable or find a shorter one, and will order that adapter for my next build. The dash is booting from the E drive currently. I don't want to give up this drive and will find out where it originated from.

Follow up - I modded the 2 other 2TB consoles I had both using the same hitatchi drive for each. Both take about 25 seconds to boot the dash after the yellow unleash x screen pops up, same case for the seagate I've been having trouble with. However with these 2 the emulators boot pretty quickly and ...

I tried the original cable and couldn't get it to boot when I first cloned with chimp and it cloned very slowly. I re-did that process using the 40 pin X 80 conductor and it cloned faster and booted. You may be right about the adapter, and I hope that is all it is. I ordered some more online and wil...