How to install a new Hard drive in your Xbox

witnessmenow wrote: »

oops sorry , i'm pretty sure you need to type "xboxhd" then type "lockhd -a". sorry forgot about that step. tut tut on BK not having it in his guide though :pac:

EDIT: wait sorry above is wrong (sorry BK ) it will defualt to 1 if you dont type anything. did you try using the numbers above the letter rather than the number pad, seems like a very strange problem

Hi Witness,

Yup, i tried both the 3 above the letter Q (no number appeared to be selected,but pressed enter anyway). I also tried the the number 3 (in the numpad) no number appeared but pressed enter anyway in case it was hidden).
Does it look as if i am defaulting to option 1 all of the time?
(It seems to take ages to go to the next step after the initial screen which made me wonder whether it was selecting a number at all).

Cheers,

I can try another one tomorrow, but i don't think it is the issue as it allows me to enter the numbers when i get into the various options (eg. the options to rebuild a hard drive, etc).
Would the tool config magic be of any use for locking the drive? (I saw it mentioned in a few other threads).

Cheers,

yeah thats normal, even a TB hard drive will show that.

Thats good to know, but I have a bluetooth keyboard where the dongle is plugged into usb and works fine for me.

Good luck with the xbox

It wouldnt show up when its in the caddy for two reasons,

A) your right its fatx,
is locked to your xbox

It doesnt look good for your hard drive ok

Try booting up the CD you locked it with,plug the hard drive in when you get to the xboxhd screen (the intial one that nearly looks graphically). go to option 3 and type unlockhd -a

Then try rebuild the drive with as you did before, or maybe even try reformat it in windows ( go to start/run and type "diskmgmt.msc", that should reconise all attached hard drives no matter what way the are formated(it reconises unformated hard drives anyways, presume it reconises fatx ones too)

Try a jumper on various settings/mirror the one on the original IDE.

MrSparkle wrote: »

Has anyone gotten Code 9 when the xbox started up after putting in the new HDD?

I bought one of these sata to ide adapters off dealextreme http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12537 and this HDD off Komplett: http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=343054

Ftped the files off my softmodded xbox, made the linux CD and made the new HDD for the xbox. It all appeared to go ok, but it won't boot properly, just comes up with Code 9, contact support.

Looking around various forums it looks like the xbox can't communicate to HDD properly but nobody has an exact solution to it. I was thinking it might have something to do with the Master/Slave settings as i wasnt sure what way they should be. I know it supposed to be set at Cable Select but the HDD has nothing on it to tell you which is C/S and looking at the samsung support website there's nothing either.

Does it have to be on C/S for both the adapter and the HDD? The HDD only has 4 pins(2 rows) aswell. Anyone have any ideas? If i pop back in the original xbox drive it works fine, brings up xbmc. Thanks!

Did you ever get sorted? Is your xbox a 1.6 by any chance (Crystal ones are 1.6, so are some black ones, google "what version is my xbox")

Could you let me know what version it is when you find out, im pretty curious whats the story with it

I havent really checked the versions of xboxs when i was putting HDs into them, so i have to go back over what I've already done to check it out

All I've figured so far is that 1.6 seem to be the worst, as I've had 2 crystal xboxs (1.6) refuse 500gb sata HDs the same way as yours while I've had no issues with 500gb in any black ones(any version). I have quite a few xboxs between my own ones and ones I've done for friends and family so hopefully I have all versions.

Its not that hard but I have to stress Make sure the Xbox is plugged out!

I have a 1.6 beside me here and it works like this:

Link Because Picture is massive!

Basically you need to put the switch between the two points I've circled on the power supply and disconnect the white wire from the connector going to the motherboard. I'll try explain it the best i know how.

The power supply has 3 modes - Off , Standby , Active

When the xbox is plugged in and off the power supply is in standby mode. When you press the power switch on the xbox the power supply is set top active and the xbox motherboard turns on. The white cable is the cable that tells the power supply to go to active mode

If the xbox is off and you connect orange to white it will turn on as normal, but this isn't what we want as we dont want the xbox booting up until the hard drive has had some power so we separate white from the motherboard (you can plug it out of the connector or cut it)

So you flick you added switch, this puts the power supply into active mode which powers the hard drive, then a couple of seconds later you press the xbox power switch and it should power up fine for you.

When turning off the xbox you will need to press the power switch , then press your added switch (pressing your added switch when the Xbox is on kills power to the xbox, so it will turn off but i think it would better not to do this )

MrSparkle wrote: »

I checked there last night, it's an Xbox 1.6a with Samsung RAM, it's the normal black xbox, not the crystal one.

Thanks for the detailed reply, that sounds like way too much work for my liking though!

Would it be the SATA to IDE adapter that's causing the problem? I messed around with the jumpers on the adapter like Nick_oliveri was saying but it just came up with error 9 each time. You said that you've had no problems with any black ones so I'm probably doing something wrong!

Sorry didnt explain that part clearly, I have had that problem on at least one black one, but im not sure what version it was. What i ment was that the crystal ones are always 1.6 so i know for sure that they are, while the black ones could be any version. I've done at least one xbox that does not require any switch (going by just the serial number it is a 1.3, but its the last week that 1.3s were made so it could be 1.4)

I use an adapter from dealextreme (red one), I completely remove the jumper pin from the adapter. I don't think this is your problem, its your xbox. There before Christmas i was doing a 500gb sata HD xbox and tried it in a crystal one and it did not work (error 9), this was the first time I had issues with a 500gb sata HD, so i tried the exact same drive and adapter in a different xbox(all i did was change the eeprom to suit the new xbox) and it worked first time. I've since had a second crystal one do this to me.

It could be the adapter, I've tried two diffrent ones and both had the same problem.

It could be the samsung spin points either, I havent tried any sata Hd bigger than 320gb that wasnt a samsung spinpoint

Yeah that would be great thanks.

I have a 1.6 working with a 320gb Seagate Sata drive using that same red adapter from dealextreme and it works perfectly so i'd say the IDEs will be no hassle at all.