How to Upgrade a Hard Drive in a Hardmodded Original Xbox | Xbox TSOP/Modchip HDD Upgrade Tutorial

This tutorial is designed for hardmodded Xbox users and aims to show you 2 different methods of upgrading your hard drive. If you want to keep your existing configuration while also increasing your storage, the first method will be best for you as it involves cloning your current drive to a new drive using Chimp 261812. The second method is much easier and faster but does not retain or transfer any of your data. This second method simply involves installing a new hard drive in place of your old one and booting up your console with a installation disc in the DVD drive. The disc being used for this tutorial is HeXEn 2018.
Keep in mind the cloning method will require several different pieces of hardware and software, and it does require a "hotswap" meaning you will have to disconnect your DVD drive and connect it to your new hard drive while the console is running. If done properly, everything will be successful, but keep in mind there is a risk of causing physical damage to your hardware if done improperly! This tutorial assumes you are aware of the risks and are willing to proceed.
If you have a softmodded Xbox, do NOT follow this tutorial! Softmodded Xboxes require a slightly different process which is fully detailed in this tutorial.
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[@emily_embers]

This video could do with chapter timestamps now that KZbin supports them. Still a great guide, though. Did a HDD nuke, worked perfectly. Good thing I use Memory Units to save most games :)

[@woodenotaku]

Don't feel like fucking around with your Xbox DVD drive? Maybe want to upgrade to a sata drive on the way? XboxHDM to the rescue! Just plug in your empty drive in your PC and boot XboxHDM. Since certain versions of XboxHDM can be booted from USB, you don't even need a DVD. Prepare your drive as per the instructions (Hopefully MrMario will make a proper tutorial on this soon). After that just plug the drive into your xbox. And that's it. It's all done. You can also do this for softmodded consoles IF you have YOUR consoles eeprom.bin (NOTE: It IS console dependant, you can always recover it but it does require some resistors and diodes), but it is much easier on hardmodded systems, since they don't care about HDD locking.

[@lachainedumeurtrekillerpot1908]

can i put and hacked hard drive on a xbox who never get hacked plz just anser this i fear to my hacked hard drive will be erase or something if i plug it in a non modded xbox

[@techhoarder3010]

I use those old xbox drives for rebuilding vintage Windows 9x PC's from time to time. I usually fill the PC with them then load it up with DOS games. Nice video, Thanks.

[@leonsgame3713]

wow i am the 25th comenter thx for the heart and the like

[@mikeboon55]

I have managed to upgrade my harddrive using Chimp FTP over (My DVD Drive is not reading). I have a X2 Hardmod. However, after upgrading, in the UnleashX, XBPartitioner, Chimp, all is able to see the F drive, but I am unable to see it on FTP, both using the Ed@Chip FTP and UnleashX FTP. I'm using Filezilla FTP client. I can see all other drives, C/E/X/Y/Z but not F or G.

[@ErroneousClique]

Mr Mario is on a roll with them OG Xboxes. :)

[@MrMario2011]

Trying to.

[@blightysilko]

Great Video, really clear and easy to follow instructions. I just replaced my original HDD with a 500gb one in my 1.6 Xbox after replacing 5 blown capacitors on the motherboard. It brought my crystal Xbox back from the dead! I used the second method and it worked a charm, many thanks mate. Now to install some emulators and put all my Xbox games onto the HDD :)

[@MrMario2011]

Perfect!

[@inconderpable]

Tt

[@jasonbrown467]

did you ever figure out why the first method didnt work? i dont get specifically why it works for some and not others

[@voltirsilent]

Damn, I've probably bought wrong adapter. Fresh install setup won't boot, but ChimpX detects drive when it's set as slave and I can even clone it. Problem is, it will still not work when installed as master. Adapter doesn't have capacitors, so it's probably wrong one. I will try once more, but this time I will power HDD externally.

[@rumbistemptation]

It's been almost a year since i gave up my last repair. I've replaced the 5 leaking caps on my 1.6 box and still not turning on after that. Yesterday I've replaced the caps and now the mod-chip is probably dead, cause when I pull out the chip it's booting fine. (Aladdin XT) Now I'm waiting for the new mod-chip (Aladdin XT Plus 2) and possibly upgrade the HDD thanks to your guide. I've got couple of healthy unused IDE drive from office and might experimenting on it. As for the OG drive, the board blew up in the past, but to my luck, I found the exact same model at my old workplace. The donor drive is dead, but the board was fine. I swapped the board and it works. So i'll just keep the drive as I have a success history with it.

[@bootcampassistant3301]

I actually haven’t done any of your tutorials. I just like the information in your videos and what you do with older consoles.

[@MrMario2011]

Appreciate it! Although I'd recommend trying some of the cool things you might see in these videos. Might as well if you have the guides available! 😀

[@halotroop2288]

Ebay listing: Male to 2x Female Ebay picture: *female receptacle connected to two male plugs*

[@daviddennen7479]

Yooo I need help mine won't launch onto unlleash x it goes to ms dashboard. I already used hexen to reinstall and still nothing

[@InfiniteClouds]

Very grateful for this video. I just secured a 1.4 revision XBOX in great condition but it is hardmodded TSOP with EvoX. All I want to be able to do is upgrade the storage space (probably to an SSD with a sata adapter) and run games off the internal storage. Is there a way I can get the stock bootup back and a vanilla appearance dashboard?

[@chrmnxpnoy]

Thank you MrMario!! My v1.6 Maxtor 300gb got the click of death and I bought a used one on eBay to replace it. Used the Hexen 2019 disc to get it back up and running. Thankfully I backed up my previous drive when I first heard the clicking :)

[@MrMario2011]

Excellent! Glad this helped!

[@dog_g5048]

Funny story, I was softmodding my Xbox by connecting the HDD to a ide computer and blew up the power supply XD

[@MrMario2011]

😬😬😬

[@rhonen1014]

F

[@juanshanevillanueva]

oh fudge.

[@BlackCat1983]

Very nice video MrMario! But what should we do if we have a hard moded one with the original HDD but the DVD is not working anymore?

[@jeff15]

Hello, were you able to find the answer ? Thanks

[@asherael]

i'm confused. once i tsop flashed my console, i just unplugged my old hard drive and plugged the new one in, then turned it on.

[@johnalex3023]

For the cloning, if your putting in a SATA drive do u swap the the 80 wire ribbon before starting the process?

[@xboxxgd]

Hello MrMario, thank you for the excellent tutorial. I'd like to ask if you know, as I've looked everywhere and couldn't find an answer, is there a way to upgrade the hdd without a working dvd drive? These are next to impossible to find in a working condition. My system is hardmodded with EvoX and there are several dashes available in my stock 10gb original xbox hdd. Thanks a lot!

[@prepare3envelopes]

Great video, but if you're wanting to clone your existing drive wouldn't it be easier flash your bios with one that doesn't check for the DVD drive on boot up? That way you wouldn't have to do the quick ata disconnect/reconnect while the system is on.

[@jeff15]

Thank you for reminding this method MR.Mario. i was able to get an SSD 1tb booting up perfectly by cloning from an 500gb sata. One step i was able to just do out of the box was turn on my xbox with both drive attached and turn on. I ran chimp with ease. Boot master and ssd1tb as salve. Didn't have to rush swapping ide cable from dvd to ssd. Hmmm strange 🤔 love your chnl. 😊 take care.

[@LFiers]

Cool! This is what I was wondering as well. So you don't need to do that rushing method and can just put both the new and old drive in before turning it on? That's great. Sounds much easier! And it cloned perfectly to your new drive?

[@mrbeastlover1609]

I booted up the Xbox, I unplugged the DVD drive at the dashboard and it was fine :) EDIT: Right when it booted up

[@fawkesnake]

Hello Mr, I used the second method (also with a 250gb drive) but the F partition only shows 123gb of space on the dashboard and apps like the DVD2Xbox). It shows the full space if I boot the Hexen disc.

[@fawkesnake]

Well the solution was to flash my bios with an updated one.

[@MrPete1985]

Hexen does feel like it take forever to load up, kept thinking my Xbox froze

[@MrMario2011]

Yep, about a minute for me. 😁

[@danielisbell]

One thing I will note: when I started Chimp Loader, my eject button flashed red, yellow, green for a while & then flashed yellow for a long time. I gave up & tried again a few times because I thought something was wrong. It turned out that I just needed to be patient. After starting it again, & pressing A, I went to look into what was wrong. 5-10 minutes later, it finally gave indication that the process was starting & worked normally. This video was helpful though. Thanks.

[@darranwigg3722]

Mr Mario, I'm going to hard mod a softmodded xbox that I got off ebay, because I went and unlocked the harddrive so I have the 05 error, as the hard drive has lots of xbox games and emulators etc, do I just put it in and turn machine on without using hexen, as I don't want to format the hard drive, many thanks for any information.

[@RastaJediX]

Mario! Tsk tsk! Static bags are (slightly?) conductive! That's how they work! Lol. Don't rest powered circuits on one.

[@RastaJediX]

@Aii Dee (WetheHackerZz) it has nothing to do with static and everything to do with conductivity.

[@LFiers]

Great video. Besides the hot swapping method, is there an easier way to clone drives from my old one to the new one I'm putting in? And this makes it so that the New drive will exactly the same as the original drive but with the bigger space available right? Thanks

[@MechaFenris]

I'm going to use mine as a coaster... or to hold open my kitchen door. ;)

[@TheClearSight]

i tried it with a 40 pin and a 80 pin IDE cable. there will be no benefits in speed. the ide controller on the xbox is crap it does not manage to appearently go over 80mbit really, so ATA133 will pretty much do nothing. so my xbox is equiped with a sata ssd. its not faster, but the mechanical stuff is gone.

[@KapiteinKrentebol]

Hi, thanks for the guide. I ran into a few problems though. I bought the 80 pin ide cable from ebay but the connectors are positioned in such a way I can't fold them like the original and have to make really awkward folds to make it fit. Secondly, but that is that my xbox dvd drive doesn't seem to read discs anylonger, also the drive doesn't want to open, already replaced the belt but nothing seem to help. The last thing is obviously not your concern, I guess I have to find a replacement drive.

[@gavinpriest5282]

dont know if im going to get a response, i have 3 Xbox originals all with no hard drives can i do anything with these? i have a Aladdin plus 2 chip, a eeprom reader, and all other things, but just need to know if i can use any of these with out a original Xbox hard drive. Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance

[@MrMario2011]

Install the Aladdin, pop in a hard drive, and nuke it with a recovery disc. Otherwise you could pull each console EEPROM and then build a locked hard drive on a PC with XboxHDM.

[@gavinpriest5282]

@@MrMario2011 thanks for ur time, great help

[@seangorry]

Fantastic video! Best OG Xbox mod tutorials on KZbin

[@mellistotheMAX]

I'm so close! All I want is a black screen with red LED, but instead I get "Your Xbox can't recognize..." I have been praying to God that someone would appear and show me how to get to any type of menu that would allow me to run games through FTP drop in. Sadly the only thing I can get to work is Xenium and successsful flash of EXOX. Xbox boots up to the non-retail kernal, and then it cant reD THE DISC,

[@mokMan23]

need help with a TSOP'd X2, ordered the parts linked and using a verified compatible 1TB WD drive and my xbox locks up every time i hotswap... update: used my startech adapter and it worked, first try.

[@eduardov94]

Hey there is a 2019 update for hexen

[@MrMario2011]

Yep

[@ledbthand]

@Aaron Aceves www.obscuregamers.com/threads/truhexen-2019-vga-bios.725/

[@ledbthand]

@Aaron Aceves www.obscuregamers. com/threads/truhexen-2019-vga-bios.725/

[@mrst4rk404]

Do you have any content regarding HDD upgrade in a hardmodded xbox that doesn't have the dvd drive working? Or any you can recommend?

[@EricLDC]

Mine is hard modded but it came out of an arcade stick and a red wire is loose. Will this cause an issue? Believe it's xcuter. Also missing the disk drive as it was set as an arcade stick. And its stuck in Spanish

[@bENOFFICIALMASSIVE]

Whats mine? I gotta hold the button and it changes to an orangy colour, the button, then it goes into XBMC.

[@MrMario2011]

Not enough to determine from what you've told me.

[@gaetano5669]

My Xbox shows a code 08 error upon powering up. Even if I replace my HDD, there’s no hope to restore what I had?

[@dreday7446]

Hello do you mess around with builds ? Like for example the 2tb hdd original xbox build ?

[@FilaUndying-Archiwum]

(Second method problem) why xbmc and unleashx shows that i have only 120gb free space on F drive when i installed 500gb hdd? also HeXEn (main menu) and partitions app (from HeXEn disc) on the other hand shows about 450+ free space. Also when im opening partitions app from xbmc (not the hexen disc) then im greeted with big Warning: "!!!! WARNING !!!!! LB448 info not found! Custom Partitions will not work with this BIOS! Update your BIOS to one which supports at least LBA48 version 2. Press Y to continue or any other button to abort." any ideas?

[@chickenfoundation9323]

What do you do if you have a bad harddrive? , I’m going to replace it with a ssd and hard mod

[@akaVelos]

do you have a tutorial of putting an already softmodded xbox's 2tb HDD into another modded xbox? just got a dew box and want to put my 2tb in there.

[@MrMario2011]

If the second console is softmodded, the EEPROM containing the HDD key must be the same across both systems. If the second console is hardmodded, unlock the HDD and it will most likely work, although depending on the custom BIOS it might not play nicely with a softmod installed on the HDD. What I'm saying here is you have a few options, but if you don't want to lose all the work you put into your 2 TB, I'd personally image it to another drive and then play around with that one. That way you have the same setup on 2 consoles, but if anything goes wrong you don't lose all your data on a single drive.

[@jasonbrown467]

maybe i found part of the reason its not working for some. i was getting stuck at the "connect slave drive then press "a" ". i found that using a oem original corded xbox controller worked, but the logic wireless would not. i did this 3 times back and forth each way to confirm this. doesnt make sense to me as to why but it works for me. i tried the getting this chimp to work probably close to 30 times before i wrote this and i will share some more info. 1 letting the xbox sit doesnt make a change, 2 swapping the ide cable needs to be super fast, like 1.5 seconds, 3 i just launched chimp and as soon as it said to swap i swapped asap, then press a and it worked. mr mario i want to thank you for doing gods work, i have used your videos off and on for years to get an idea of how things work

[@UrbanBackflip]

Is there a way of doing this without using the Hexen disc?

[@alpha_repairs]

Hi ! I have a xbox with aladdin mod chip in it ! But it doesn't show evox on start ! How do o get that ?? And my xbox is giving error 13 and 16 ! Tryed hexen dvd but no luck ! Plz help

[@user-sm8wo3dj5z]

My dvd drive on xbox is kaput. How do i still clone my hdd?

[@override39]

thank you for this i wil keep the old hdd drive safe just in case i want to sell it

[@marbles8641]

Hey, I have a hard-modded Xbox, and a 2TB SSD to put into it. I was told I will need to partition the HD before installing, this true?

[@BtccDan]

I followed these steps to upgrade to a 1tb hdd. I already have a modchip. But when i did the clone, i had a G drive and it was split half n half with F drive. So i went onto the partition app and merged it all to F drive. Now one problem i am having is when i try to boot the xbox into the normal MS dash, i get a green error screen saying it needs a service. But if i go into the modded dash and select go to MS dash, it will go back to the original dash that way. Also my game saves explorer on the modded dash disappeared too. I ripped forza to the hdd using dvd2xbox and it worked fine. When i tried ripping toca race driver, it had a hard time tryna read the disc and came up as video the first time round and unknown the 2nd time. If i boot the xbox up into the modded dash from off, it loads the game no probs. But in dvd2xbox i had to let it sit for ages before it recognised it. Somethings off about this clone. It also said my original hdd was locked as well, but i still cloned it anyway. Could this be the problem. I also switch back to the original ide cable as it seemed to look like it was working. Could this be the problem? Do i need to use the 80 core cable? I'm so confused as to what's gone wrong and i've ended up leaving it for now as the ide to sata board is very cheap and fragile. Already had to fix the sata connector as it ripped it off the board as it was so flimsy. All the pins was put back correctly.

[@MrMario2011]

I believe one of the Toca games has some issues running from HDD, there's some workarounds for it. As for MS Dash, you won't be able to boot it on a retail BIOS if you have an unlocked HDD. That's why you're able to boot it through a modified dashboard.

[@babayaga26]

Please help me, i can't find any good answer. I hear 2TB is the max of a disk, BUT if it do manage to use a 2tb it should be able to use a 4tb. Can i use a 4tb drive, as long as i divide the partitions with 1tb per partition?

[@JerrySM64]

Nice tutorial. I have a question tho. My friend has a hardmodded Xbox. Unfortunately it’s Hard Drive died. Is it possible to revive it with a new Hard drive? It has the Team Xecuter2 mod chip if I remember correctly.

[@HanshiroParker]

Yo Mario2011 is rockin them LitXboxes doe...

[@-Steven-]

My Xbox refuses point blank to accept a new hard drive, I brought the startech ide to SATA as I read this worked perfectly with the Xbox trouble is if I connect the original hard drive to my Xbox it boots the Hexen 2021 DVD perfect however if I put my new hard drive in then it refuses to boot from the disk, the ring light goes red like its working but then nothing happens, I've tried with 4 different hard drives each different sizes and I've even burnt the DVD off using 3 different burning speeds but I just can't get it to boot from the DVD with any other hard drive attached. I know the ide to SATA is working because I hear the new hard drive spin up and there's a light on my xecuter 2.6 board that flashes when the hard drive is being accessed but like I said the ring light goes red and just stays there.

[@-Steven-]

btw my xecuter 2.6 is flashed with evox m8+, tried both the standard bios version and the noDVD bios version and it doesn't make any difference. also tried to use my PC to clone my hard drive but for some reason, HDD raw copy tool, mini portion tool, etc won't see the drive I'm trying to copy. I'm on windows 10 x64 version 21h2 (os build 19044.1766). literally pulling my hair out at the minute.

[@karldavies6679]

I’ve got an xecuter 3 mod chip , after I’ve done the above , it reboots into an x3 config screen and not the dash ?

[@phoenixgonzalez2813]

having the same issue. did you ever figure this out?

[@dethslayer9258]

Hey so I upgraded a 2 terabyte SATA to a 4 TB SATA just by cloning it with the third party device everything seems to have worked fine except the extra 2 terabytes are missing. Any idea how I recover them? I checked XB partitioner and it only has the original two terabytes from the original Drive..

[@MrMario2011]

Use XBPartitioner to expand the partitions.

[@Alakatrore]

Hey there, any way to do this with dead disc drive in xbox?

[@killmechanizm2424]

@MrMario, help!! I have an OpenXenium, 2tb drive and a StarTec adapter. I've setup an new HDD and installed the basic apps all the dashboards through True Hexen 2021 per the locations the program designates. The problem I'm having is I can only see the F and G partitions when in True Hexen, they disappear if I go to a dashboard like Xleash and will not boot to dashboards in the F partition. Its like it is booting to quick for them to populate. I do have them enabled on the dashboards.

[@youtubzer]

Definitely keeping the original drive for a back up. You just never know 👨‍🔧🤷‍♂️ would keep it locked too, hard mod could possibly get screwed up as well and need to remove it from the system, if it does then you’re left with a broken hard modded Xbox with no drive to boot to 😵

[@tacovaii]

im try upgrade my HHD 2tb but i have xbox 1.4 winbond but only i see 123gb that is crazy i dont know whats is the problem because im make tsop to other xbox 1.6 version im use lpc open xenium this work perfect witgh 2 tb HDD upgrade but my version 1.4 dont get 2 tb is version green halo lol some body have idea whats is wrong ?

[@JorgeHernandez-gq6yy]

Hey Mario, can I install a newer hard drive/ssd that was manufactured last year if I have an Aladdin mod chip or tsop installed?

[@MrMario2011]

Why couldn't you?

[@guitaristtom]

How big is it? As long as it isn't above 1TB you should be okay. 1TB to 2TB tends to be iffy from what I heard.

[@JorgeHernandez-gq6yy]

@@guitaristtom i have a spare 500gb ssd that im not using. But it was manufactured last year. I just wanted to know if by installing an aladdin, i would be able to use. Mostly because of this whole compatibility list.

[@guitaristtom]

@@JorgeHernandez-gq6yy it should work. I've seen people who have used a modern SATA SSD on an old Windows 98 machine using one of those adapters and an 80 pin IDE cable. You should be fine.

[@MrMario2011]

The compatibility list doesn't matter for hardmodded consoles, which is why I didn't link or reference it.

[@bagos13GR]

since my hdd is dead, even with my hardmoded xbox , and the new hdd with the adaptor to sata and the hexen disc inside, i keep getting error 07. Any ideas? :/

[@GalironRunner]

im guessing the hd was locked. can you still get to the normal screen without the hexan disk? ie will it boot up as normal just not work or does it just error out? if its erroring the system is likely lost thats the biggest issue with the og xbox is if the hd isnt unlocked and teh hd dies the system is about scrap

[@bagos13GR]

@@GalironRunner on the hardmoded Xbox i found the solution. The IDE to SATA adapter caused a circuit on the original hdd. So i bought a new adapter and a new hdd (the other probably got circuit too). After changing both hdd and adapter the xbox powered up and works perfectly after this. Now i am facing a different problem since the same happened on my softmoded xbox , so now the original hdd is dead and although i have the eeprom zeroed and saved I can't build a new hdd with the key. Any ideas how to build one?

[@DexKing100]

i have 2 xboxes. one is hard modded with a chameleon chip, the other is soft modded. i am trying to do the hexen disc method on the hard modded console, but it appears that both of my drives have crapped out. is there any way to do this through the PC or by installing chimp on the HDD to clone or even just format the drive for my xbox? the hard modded xbox already has an upgraded drive, but i want a bigger one as 80GB just isnt enough.

[@mrpudders]

I have an older softmodded xbox with a 750g harddrive in it, is it possible to add this hard drive to a hard modded xbox that I have. I want to upgrade the 750g xbox to a 2 TB...I think I can just use chimp loader for both of these but I guess the fact that they're modded differently is confusing me....Thx any help!

[@comm4nd3rch31f]

hi, new to your channel but I have learnt so much from your tutorials and recently revisited an original xbox i modded years ago and then stored away, i have cleaned it all up removed the clock capacitor and now installed a 500GB HDD 80 wire ide but now looking to flash the bios...so is it safe to do this if I've all ready upgraded the HDD??

[@amanpretbasuita2725]

My original softmodded hard drive died and unfortunately I can't build a new one with the USB-IDE adapter, keep getting errors. If I hard mod my original Xbox, would I be able to use the hexen disc to build a new one?

[@markcampbell2364]

Hey Mr Mario is there anyway I can do the second method without the dvd the dvddrive in my xbox no longer works? My xbox is hard modded and I also can plug it into my pc to access the drive

[@scopedpixels]

Hello MrMario - Is there such a thing to upgrade the HDD and STILL keep the oem xbox dashboard without any mods?

[@MrMario2011]

Technically, yes? You could build a hard drive with the stock files using something like FATXplorer.

[@scopedpixels]

@@MrMario2011 Thank you. Do you have a video on that or recommend one?

[@chumbert5]

Help! I was trying to hotswap it but now my xbox is stuck in an Evo-X menu where all I can do is reboot, shut down, go to settings, backup, and flash the BIOS.

[@steeben009]

@MrMario2011 Can I use a blanc CD-R instead of DVD-R aswell?

[@MrMario2011]

I would not recommend it since some disc drives do not read CDR disks properly.

[@6000lost]

Hey, I understand this is an old video, but what would cause chimp to hang on booting screen? Should I try to reinstall it?

[@celofukuji]

I'll try the second method 23:00 in my of Xbox. Thanks Mr Mario!

[@MrMario2011]

You're welcome, and good luck!

[@amigi5001]

I have got Problem. My Old Magic drive Xbox 2002 crashed Sole years ago. I just bought another. Is there and possibility to get content from old Xbox Hdd to New Xbox Hdd? I kept old Xbox Drive. Old Xbox Itselve is gone. This would be so Great. Make my New Xbox 2002 Great again. 😁

[@MrMario2011]

You won't be able to unless you unlocked that hard drive or still have the matching EEPROM/key for it.

[@magnaride99]

Can you clone the drive using a PC? like using something like miray drive clone?

[@MrMario2011]

You can, yeah.

[@sarin62]

i signed up on that site to get the hexen file but cannot get it and cannot find it, is there any other programs instead of hexen to use? cheers and love your tutorials

[@MrRatchet12661]

So I have this weird IDE/SATA adapter and it doesn't have any jumpers. Scuze me?

[@veritas4]

Do you still recommend Hexen 2018 for the Installation Disk? Or would the latest version of OGXbox Installer be better?

[@MrMario2011]

That was the latest one at the time, newer discs are going to be better.

[@veritas4]

@@MrMario2011 Do you have a recommendation? There are a few different more recent installation disks.

[@FuZZbaLLbee]

I installed an other dashboard on a previously modded XBox. Then it wouldn’t boot anymore

[@Chris-tx9ou]

did i miss the fitting of the new IDE cable ? 80 pin ? or did you just use the existing 40 pin cable ? If you put games on the new F: partition does the xbox automatically pic this up or do you have to adjust any config folders ? Thanks Mario i'm learning from your videos

[@TS-gd2ug]

I have a question because i still don#t know if mine is hard modded or soft modded. I do get the oroiginal xbox start up in the beginning and after that it goes to the Avalaunch dahsboard which is really old. Underneath my xbox i see that the stickers have been damaged so i don't know,, you tell me? I really want to update to a newer version because the avalaunch limits me for doing stuff or i just don't understand it.

[@MrMario2011]

If your BIOS splash screen doesn't have any extra logos on it (such as XECUTER 2, XECUTER 3, EvoX, etc.) then you probably have a softmodded console.

[@TS-gd2ug]

@@MrMario2011 Okay, that makes it more clearer. I tried to softmod it with rocky 5s. I followed a video and i burned it onto a dvd. when i try to run it on my xbox it does not load and it stay stuck on the loading screen. do you have any idea?

[@asherael]

hardmod required for HDD upgrade? you can't do it with a softmod?

[@MrMario2011]

You can do it with a softmod, I have a full video over it.

[@javiles2331]

Mr Mario if I use a HDD cloner would work? Or I have to do it from the Dashboard?

[@michaelpitocchi7705]

My hard drive is broken and I can't fix it with hot swapping. How do I set up a replacement hard drive without using the old? I have a xenium modchip installed.

[@MrMario2011]

You won't need the old drive if you have a custom BIOS, thankfully! Just follow along and use something like HeXen.

[@michaelpitocchi7705]

@@MrMario2011 I burned hexen onto a DVD+RW and my xbox (with xenium chip) won't load it

[@thebungisound810]

Do I need to clone my hdd if the xbox it's hardmodded?

[@joolz80male]

How do you get XBMC on it? It keeps getting stuck on the splash screen everytime I try to install it. Its driving me nuts!!

[@tafferchuck1349]

Any idea if I can somehow remove the hard drive and then connect it to my PC via SATA cable? I want to rescue some old songs from that xbox.

[@MrMario2011]

Yep! FATXplorer is a big help.

[@tafferchuck1349]

@@MrMario2011 Lies, I disassembled my xbox, got all the way to the hard drive, and turns out it's a different type of hard drive, with like a different connection!! You betrayed me!! "You're a pig and you used me!!"

[@the-notorius]

So much xbox moding

[@MrMario2011]

And there's no issue with that!

[@the-notorius]

@@MrMario2011 no

[@jq4136]

I love it

[@MoDzAudio]

I just used your tutorial video to upgrade my HD. Something is weird though in XBPartitioner it shows F: 458.31GB free but on the dashboard it only says 200 GB something free and not the 458.31GB I actually have. Anyway im gonna send my old HD to PSA and get it graded.

[@onatw]

I get an error code 09 when i boot up with the heXEn disc..??

[@mix-A-Less]

Which dash board are you using here? TY

[@MrMario2011]

TRUE MS DASH 2.0 skin for UnleashX

[@DanielKoellmann]

Hey Mario, if I'm in Region PAL, but mainly want to play NTSC games on my hardmodded system should I still use "New Disk, Pal Xbox" or can I use "New Disk, NTSC Box" as well when setting up Hexen with a new drive?

[@MrMario2011]

I haven't worked on a PAL Xbox, but I believe there's a separate setting for PAL consoles to unlock HD resolutions, which will adjust the EEPROM itself to operate like a NTSC console.

[@jonathanmccullough6790]

Hey Mr Mario quick question, my Xbox still displays the green X with the black background however, it says xecuter instead of Microsoft. Does this mean I have a hardmodded Xbox? Pls say I do 😂😂😂

[@MrMario2011]

That's a hardmod!

[@bugsfm8840]

Thanks, I was able to put in a 320 GB SATA Laptop Hard drive. After all the standard partition stuff, I was left with about 290 GB which I dedicated all to the F drive. However, in the dashboard and game transfer tools it only sees 128 GB. Is there a fix for this? My Xbox is a 1.6 with Aladdin 4032 installed (with its default bios) and all the Hexen procedures followed from your excellent video. Keep up the great work man!

[@MrMario2011]

You need to increase the size of your partition within XBPartitioner.

[@bugsfm8840]

@@MrMario2011 Upon launch, XBPartitioner says my bios does not support custom partition sizes. I may need to upgrade bios.

[@gordongreenroom]

Hi Mr mario. Thank you for this tutorial. I've been trying to get 3 xboxs working on sata ssd/hdd with only 1 working dvd and your clear tutorial had given me great understanding of the process. I'm wondering if you have any experience with older mod chips from the early 2000. I'm able to boot hexen 2018 with the original hdd but when I swap the old hdd to a new sata ssd or hdd, the boot refused to recognise the new hdd and instead spews out errors 7, 13 and 16 on numerous attempts. I can't seem to get it to recognize the new hdd and prompt for formating. Could it be the mod chip was of the older version and won't recognise new hdd nor have a formatting function? Is it because of hdd lock which I doubt since the hardmod should bypass hdd locking? Thank you again. 😊 Happy holidays and new year. Forgot to mention, all are 1.6 ver and all are restored with new time cap, the dreaded 5 and thermal paste. Mod chip of aladdin variant and one is unknown with Fujitsu printed on the chip.

[@MrMario2011]

I haven't used OLD chips like that but hrm... Is the BIOS a bit too outdated on it? Might be that?

[@gordongreenroom]

@MrMario2011 my latest deduction was that too after watching a few more of your videos. Will dig into bios and probably update the mod chips. Thank you for replying, really appreciate your kindness. Happy new year to you and family.

[@jeff15]

Hey, any update on your issue? I've had great luck with open xenium chips. Have you heard of the new chip just came out, project stellar? Just fyi. Still early stages, though. Good luck !!

[@ClassicGamer78]

Thank you very much for posting this!

[@MrMario2011]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@MrRatchet12661]

Well damn. Neither hotswap or chaning DVD drive to Slave Drive after the Chimp was started did nothing. I was forced to go with the second option.

[@jasonbrown467]

i am having issues also. im stuck at the please connect slave drive press a to continue screen.

[@acr500rider]

Now this is good content!

[@MrMario2011]

Güd

[@marioandresjara]

getting error 13 on my 500gb sata. Using the original 40 wired cable. Can´t find a 80 one, there is not another solution?

[@MrMario2011]

Need that 80 wire cable.