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scooterthedj
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dead hard drive

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Hi, please help with advise pls,

I come across and xbox that was softmodded but the gard drive was totally dead, and I had no access to the the drive to get the eprom, What are my option regarding install a modchip these days, are the any new developments on the scene.
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Aladdin chips are cheap and still very easy to find.
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you can read the eprom on the motherboard with a cable and ponyprog then build a new ine with xbhdm
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I haven't used this but a Raspberry Pi is also capable of reading an xbox eeprom.
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Albatross wrote:I haven't used this but a Raspberry Pi is also capable of reading an xbox eeprom.
Would you have a link to this please :-)
I have a Pi and two bricked Xboxes ...

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Its hyper-linked, click on "Raspberry Pi" in my first post.
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Albatross wrote: Sun May 07, 2017 8:12 am I haven't used this but a Raspberry Pi is also capable of reading an xbox eeprom.
Awesome.
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That's a great option :-)

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