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Xbox HD upgrade
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 11:27 pm
by VanZan
My cousin's very young son paid a visit today and to keep him occupied I turned on my one remaining xbox. Turns out he loves The Hulk and is enthralled by Ultimate Destruction. So I'm faced with the headache of tracking down an xbox (after I had given a couple away to charity for nowt) and putting Hulk Ultimate Destruction on it. Although I'm hoping it would fit on a stock HD I do have a 200GB IDE lying around. So is the process of upgrading the HDD still dependent on me having a desktop pc (which I don't)?
Thanks for any help and Merry Xmas!
Re: Xbox HD upgrade
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 2:03 am
by mrmajikbus45
Check out my chimp guide in the tutorials section, or click on the link in my signature. Happy hunting!
upgrade solution
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 6:17 pm
by 2 Bunny
Absolutely not! The computer based solutions of the past are now practically obsolete thanks to
this.
Re: Xbox HD upgrade
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 7:21 pm
by dan.h
If the xbox isnt a v1.6 I would do a tsop flash, chuck in the new hard drive and prepare it from Hexen - assuming the xbox is a pre 1.6 you could also remove the clock capacitor as well while you have the lid off
Re: Xbox HD upgrade
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 9:28 pm
by Mr_You
Confirmed success story!
Recently I successfully completed 2 Bunnys HD upgrade video tutorial on my softmod Xbox v1.0. I did use an old PC for the power supply to the new HD during the cloning process.
I upgraded to a used 2010 Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB PATA/IDE HD, model number WD5000AAKB-00H8A0, bought off Amazon.
I was thoroughly confused if I needed an LBA48 compatible BIOS, but mrmajikbus45 set me straight and I used
Xphazers XBpartitioner instructions to properly format the F partition (partition 6) from 120GB (16KB clusters) to 458GB (32KB clusters) of usable space.
So far everything is working great and I'd be surprised if I ever end up running out of space for the games that I want to play.
The only other mod I will probably do is replacing the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU or other cooling improvements without upgrading the fan.
TIME Reply
Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 6:36 pm
by 2 Bunny
dan.h wrote:If the xbox isnt a v1.6 I would do a tsop flash, chuck in the new hard drive and prepare it from Hexen - assuming the xbox is a pre 1.6 you could also remove the clock capacitor as well while you have the lid off
If you do that, the time will be lost any time power is lost. You're better off leaving it on there IMO.
Re: Xbox HD upgrade
Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 7:16 pm
by dan.h
But with a custom BIOS it won't care about that and boot straight into xbmc etc? Plus xbmc updates time over internet
Re: Xbox HD upgrade
Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 8:25 pm
by Evertonman67
Get Slayers Evo-x version 2.9 from
www.isozone.com.Burn it to disk.This version has Chimp preinstalled with other lots of goodies.I actually used this to upgrade my official 10gb HDD to a 300gb HDD IDE with no problem at all.