Re: XBOX 2TB SATA Upgrade Tutorial
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 11:41 pm
I appreciate the help, it's been very long since i modded my xbox, maybe a decade almost.
XBMC4Xbox – Media Center for the original Xbox
https://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/
If two drives are giving you this error, then its more than likely the adaptors fault.BigJon wrote:Hi Guys, I have just bought a ide to sata board and it works fine with a 2.5" 640gb Samsung drive using both a 40 & 80 wire ide cable. The issue I have is I bought a 1tb 3.5" drive and I now get error code 9 at boot up. I have tried cable select & master on the board with no luck and 40 & 80 wire ide. I put the 2.5" drive back in and thats fine.
IDE - Sata converter
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/lycom-s ... to-ide-m-b
1tb HDD
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-wes ... 64mb-cache
I also tried and old 80gb 3.5" samsung sata drive and that give me the same error.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Jon
Best bet is EBay, it's where I got mine for a couple quid.BigJon wrote:Thanks for the reply matey... I was thinking that myself but was hoping someone might of had another idea.
Anywhere in england I can get decent ide to sata adapter?
Thanks
Jon
Yeah, would have if I had long enough 80pin IDE cables.xman wrote:Can you not plug the sata adapter directly onto the HDD?.
Where did you get that 80 pin IDE cable? Mine is way too long between motherboard and DVD but too short from DVD to HDAmigaz wrote:Would be nice to see how you folks did your cable management before closing the lid
Bought a couple of these circa 10 years ago at a local computer shop here in Sweden, round IDE cable.SVCGames wrote:Where did you get that 80 pin IDE cable? Mine is way too long between motherboard and DVD but too short from DVD to HDAmigaz wrote:Would be nice to see how you folks did your cable management before closing the lid
Did you happen to use IND BIOS on this Xbox? i'm experiencing the same problem on an Xbox v1.2 tsope'd with IND-BIOS 5003.67.GTRetro87 wrote:So ..
Here's where I'm at now..
G drive shows nothing in XBMC, and when I FTP into it, only a few drives show and G is missing. However, with the slayers disc in, both F and G show as 995 GB available - AND G is available when I FTP into the Xbox when slayers running.
So this is what I did..
1) I created a folder (called in "A" like xman) and I just copied a random file already in the HDD that is 1.8k in size
2) Then I copied that file into the "A" folder. (I actually put the same folder and file in F drive as well, just to see what would happen)..
3) NOW, after rebooting back into XBMC, I checked my files and the G drive now shows - and both F and G are at 949 GB.
4) I booted up XBPartitioner 1.3 and both partition sizes were at the same (927.78 GB).. so i figured to reduce each drive by 1 GB.. format it, and rebooted the entire xbox - THEN i went back into XBP and UP'ed both drives BACK to 927.78
(I had tried to reformat the partitions in XBP before reducing the size of each partition.. but it made no difference in XBMC, G was still there - so that told me if you don't format with a different partition size than the last time you formatted, no change will happen at all).
5) so after reformatting back to 927.78.. I rebooted and back into XBMC.. G drive went missing - which told me that both folders in F and G were erased, yet G is still unrecognizable by XBMC (or the version slayers 2.7 provides - which yes, I have to update to the new XBMC) - In addition, by FTP'ing into XBMC at this point, G is also unrecognizable (again)
6) after this, I popped in Slayers 2.7 disc.. F and G show 995 GB (surprisingly..?).. then I FTP'd into the xbox.. G drive shows.. copied same folder and 1.8K file to G..... and now XBMC shows the G drive
sorry for all of that, but I find this stuff very interesting. I'm still not sure why both F and G show as 949 GB when they should be 927 GB.. weird
I guess this means that it's good to go????
Using XBMC's filemanager go to the G drive and hit the small white button on the controller to bring up the context window and now create a sub folder like Movies in the G drive. Put something inside this newly created sub folder and you will be good to start using your G drive. You can delete the sub folder if you wish once you have used it once. You are good once it has worked once.Amigaz wrote:Did you happen to use IND BIOS on this Xbox? i'm experiencing the same problem on an Xbox v1.2 tsope'd with IND-BIOS 5003.67.GTRetro87 wrote:So ..
Here's where I'm at now..
G drive shows nothing in XBMC, and when I FTP into it, only a few drives show and G is missing. However, with the slayers disc in, both F and G show as 995 GB available - AND G is available when I FTP into the Xbox when slayers running.
So this is what I did..
1) I created a folder (called in "A" like xman) and I just copied a random file already in the HDD that is 1.8k in size
2) Then I copied that file into the "A" folder. (I actually put the same folder and file in F drive as well, just to see what would happen)..
3) NOW, after rebooting back into XBMC, I checked my files and the G drive now shows - and both F and G are at 949 GB.
4) I booted up XBPartitioner 1.3 and both partition sizes were at the same (927.78 GB).. so i figured to reduce each drive by 1 GB.. format it, and rebooted the entire xbox - THEN i went back into XBP and UP'ed both drives BACK to 927.78
(I had tried to reformat the partitions in XBP before reducing the size of each partition.. but it made no difference in XBMC, G was still there - so that told me if you don't format with a different partition size than the last time you formatted, no change will happen at all).
5) so after reformatting back to 927.78.. I rebooted and back into XBMC.. G drive went missing - which told me that both folders in F and G were erased, yet G is still unrecognizable by XBMC (or the version slayers 2.7 provides - which yes, I have to update to the new XBMC) - In addition, by FTP'ing into XBMC at this point, G is also unrecognizable (again)
6) after this, I popped in Slayers 2.7 disc.. F and G show 995 GB (surprisingly..?).. then I FTP'd into the xbox.. G drive shows.. copied same folder and 1.8K file to G..... and now XBMC shows the G drive
sorry for all of that, but I find this stuff very interesting. I'm still not sure why both F and G show as 949 GB when they should be 927 GB.. weird
I guess this means that it's good to go????
Never had this problem with Evox M8 bios'es.
Used Slayer's V3.3 to format and built the 2tb drive and then xbpartioner 1.3 to cluser the F and G drive.
When I boot into Xbmc drive F shows fine in the file manager, drive G is there without any size and when I click on it it get a message it's "invalid" something ...
I already tried thatxman wrote:Using XBMC's filemanager go to the G drive and hit the small white button on the controller to bring up the context window and now create a sub folder like Movies in the G drive. Put something inside this newly created sub folder and you will be good to start using your G drive. You can delete the sub folder if you wish once you have used it once. You are good once it has worked once.Amigaz wrote:Did you happen to use IND BIOS on this Xbox? i'm experiencing the same problem on an Xbox v1.2 tsope'd with IND-BIOS 5003.67.GTRetro87 wrote:So ..
Here's where I'm at now..
G drive shows nothing in XBMC, and when I FTP into it, only a few drives show and G is missing. However, with the slayers disc in, both F and G show as 995 GB available - AND G is available when I FTP into the Xbox when slayers running.
So this is what I did..
1) I created a folder (called in "A" like xman) and I just copied a random file already in the HDD that is 1.8k in size
2) Then I copied that file into the "A" folder. (I actually put the same folder and file in F drive as well, just to see what would happen)..
3) NOW, after rebooting back into XBMC, I checked my files and the G drive now shows - and both F and G are at 949 GB.
4) I booted up XBPartitioner 1.3 and both partition sizes were at the same (927.78 GB).. so i figured to reduce each drive by 1 GB.. format it, and rebooted the entire xbox - THEN i went back into XBP and UP'ed both drives BACK to 927.78
(I had tried to reformat the partitions in XBP before reducing the size of each partition.. but it made no difference in XBMC, G was still there - so that told me if you don't format with a different partition size than the last time you formatted, no change will happen at all).
5) so after reformatting back to 927.78.. I rebooted and back into XBMC.. G drive went missing - which told me that both folders in F and G were erased, yet G is still unrecognizable by XBMC (or the version slayers 2.7 provides - which yes, I have to update to the new XBMC) - In addition, by FTP'ing into XBMC at this point, G is also unrecognizable (again)
6) after this, I popped in Slayers 2.7 disc.. F and G show 995 GB (surprisingly..?).. then I FTP'd into the xbox.. G drive shows.. copied same folder and 1.8K file to G..... and now XBMC shows the G drive
sorry for all of that, but I find this stuff very interesting. I'm still not sure why both F and G show as 949 GB when they should be 927 GB.. weird
I guess this means that it's good to go????
Never had this problem with Evox M8 bios'es.
Used Slayer's V3.3 to format and built the 2tb drive and then xbpartioner 1.3 to cluser the F and G drive.
When I boot into Xbmc drive F shows fine in the file manager, drive G is there without any size and when I click on it it get a message it's "invalid" something ...