How do I upgrade my hard drive for my hardmodded OG-XBOX?
Posted: Mon May 18, 2020 10:45 pm
Hey y'all!
New guy here! Pleasantly surprised to see that there's still an active community revolving the original XBOX! I've yet to really invest in the fantastic world of hardmodded OG-XBOX as I've put it aside untill the day I obtained a suitable replacement for the original 4GB IDE hard drive that the console had originally. I tried replacing the original hard drive with a newer SATA spin drive with the IDE to SATA adapter many years ago, and I remember following all the correct steps, formatting the hard drive with a certain app so that the hard drive could be read by the xbox, but that didn't work out too well, so I scoured the internet for answers untill I found out that supposedly; not all hard drives could be used with the XBOX apparantly, at least not by using the adapter-fix.
And now I've obtained a "new" hard drive that I've salvaged from a older computer, thinking maybe it could be a perfect fit. It too is a SATA spin drive, however this time around it's not a 500GB drive, but instead a "Seagate Barracude 7200.7" 160GB hard drive. That's all good and well, but the thing is: I remember when I attempted this many years ago, I remember the whole process could be done using a format and partition app for Windows, made specifically for use with the OG-XBOX. But now when I'm searching, I'm seeing a bunch of threads saying something about burning certain XBOX homebrew apps to format the new drive via the XBOX with a split-cable or something, and I'm totally lost on the whole process. Can somebody PLEASE help out this noob?
New guy here! Pleasantly surprised to see that there's still an active community revolving the original XBOX! I've yet to really invest in the fantastic world of hardmodded OG-XBOX as I've put it aside untill the day I obtained a suitable replacement for the original 4GB IDE hard drive that the console had originally. I tried replacing the original hard drive with a newer SATA spin drive with the IDE to SATA adapter many years ago, and I remember following all the correct steps, formatting the hard drive with a certain app so that the hard drive could be read by the xbox, but that didn't work out too well, so I scoured the internet for answers untill I found out that supposedly; not all hard drives could be used with the XBOX apparantly, at least not by using the adapter-fix.
And now I've obtained a "new" hard drive that I've salvaged from a older computer, thinking maybe it could be a perfect fit. It too is a SATA spin drive, however this time around it's not a 500GB drive, but instead a "Seagate Barracude 7200.7" 160GB hard drive. That's all good and well, but the thing is: I remember when I attempted this many years ago, I remember the whole process could be done using a format and partition app for Windows, made specifically for use with the OG-XBOX. But now when I'm searching, I'm seeing a bunch of threads saying something about burning certain XBOX homebrew apps to format the new drive via the XBOX with a split-cable or something, and I'm totally lost on the whole process. Can somebody PLEASE help out this noob?