Hey folks, first time modder here.
I followed a YouTube Guide posted by creator P3NCE and everything went rather smoothly and had no hiccups. Cloned the OG drive to a 1TB SATA drive using an IDE to SATA adapter and everything.
Was FTPing some games to it when suddenly it terminated the connection and when trying to reestablish it I received errors stating that the networked drive is unavailable. So I went ahead and rebooted the console as this wasn't the first time it's happened to me and all I've needed to do in the past was reboot it.
After rebooting I received consistent Error 07 issues, which from what I understand is bad kernel/can't communicate with drive.
So here's what I tried at that point:
NIB 80-cable IDE cable
NIB 40-cable IDE cable
Used 80-cable IDE cable
Used 40-cable IDE cable
Swapped DVD Drives with another Xbox
NIB IDE to SATA adapter
Used the original drive with XUnleash installed (will boot to no issue, play games from Disk but defeats the purpose of being able to play games off HDD)
So at this point I'm kinda at my wits end and decide I'd just clone the OG drive with XUnleash on it to another drive I have that tests good in HDSentinel (100%, 1000+ days, passes Short Self Test in 2min target) that also happens to be on the XboxDrives X-Pec site as supported and has EEPROM locking. Freshly zero'd the drive using a CPRTools Hammer device and tried to clone to it. No partitioning, no formatting, completely fresh drive.
CHIMP (lpartx) does not like this drive. It will boot when I do the cable hotswap but it just refuses to recognize the drive. I've made sure the OG Drive is set to Master with Slave Present and that the drive I'm cloning to is set to Slave. I've even tried different 40 and 80-cable IDE cables, including the stock 40-cable that is installed in the XB to begin with. I'm 210% sure I'm hotswapping within the ''5 second timeframe'' you get when the ''FatX'' text appears but it still just won't detect it.
Now, I'm not sure if my original drive had a partition or any sort of formatting the first time I did this or not, but one thing I haven't tried is putting some form of partition on the drive.
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Also, interesting tidbit, The old drive reads in HDSentinel as 100%, 1000+ and passes a Short Self Test, registers in Disk Management as being a 1TB drive, but when attached to the Hammer device I have it says that there is 0000GB on the disk. I think the drive shit out on me tbh, no clue how or why but if the drive is unrecoverable I'm ok with it, all my games are backed up elsewhere. I've tried formatting it and it just tells me that there is an I/O device error. Could that be because the control board has died?
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I'm posting this from work, so I cannot provide which MB.Ver I have or any of that as of right now. I do know that the dash was Ver. 1.00.5960.01 and I believe the kernel was Ver. 1.00.5530.01 when I initially did the TSOP flash.
I followed a YouTube Guide posted by creator P3NCE and everything went rather smoothly and had no hiccups. Cloned the OG drive to a 1TB SATA drive using an IDE to SATA adapter and everything.
Was FTPing some games to it when suddenly it terminated the connection and when trying to reestablish it I received errors stating that the networked drive is unavailable. So I went ahead and rebooted the console as this wasn't the first time it's happened to me and all I've needed to do in the past was reboot it.
After rebooting I received consistent Error 07 issues, which from what I understand is bad kernel/can't communicate with drive.
So here's what I tried at that point:
NIB 80-cable IDE cable
NIB 40-cable IDE cable
Used 80-cable IDE cable
Used 40-cable IDE cable
Swapped DVD Drives with another Xbox
NIB IDE to SATA adapter
Used the original drive with XUnleash installed (will boot to no issue, play games from Disk but defeats the purpose of being able to play games off HDD)
So at this point I'm kinda at my wits end and decide I'd just clone the OG drive with XUnleash on it to another drive I have that tests good in HDSentinel (100%, 1000+ days, passes Short Self Test in 2min target) that also happens to be on the XboxDrives X-Pec site as supported and has EEPROM locking. Freshly zero'd the drive using a CPRTools Hammer device and tried to clone to it. No partitioning, no formatting, completely fresh drive.
CHIMP (lpartx) does not like this drive. It will boot when I do the cable hotswap but it just refuses to recognize the drive. I've made sure the OG Drive is set to Master with Slave Present and that the drive I'm cloning to is set to Slave. I've even tried different 40 and 80-cable IDE cables, including the stock 40-cable that is installed in the XB to begin with. I'm 210% sure I'm hotswapping within the ''5 second timeframe'' you get when the ''FatX'' text appears but it still just won't detect it.
Now, I'm not sure if my original drive had a partition or any sort of formatting the first time I did this or not, but one thing I haven't tried is putting some form of partition on the drive.
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Also, interesting tidbit, The old drive reads in HDSentinel as 100%, 1000+ and passes a Short Self Test, registers in Disk Management as being a 1TB drive, but when attached to the Hammer device I have it says that there is 0000GB on the disk. I think the drive shit out on me tbh, no clue how or why but if the drive is unrecoverable I'm ok with it, all my games are backed up elsewhere. I've tried formatting it and it just tells me that there is an I/O device error. Could that be because the control board has died?
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I'm posting this from work, so I cannot provide which MB.Ver I have or any of that as of right now. I do know that the dash was Ver. 1.00.5960.01 and I believe the kernel was Ver. 1.00.5530.01 when I initially did the TSOP flash.