Re: Xbox Hard Drive

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

On the whole upgrade the Xbox Hard drive thing... can I just stick a blank
HDD in it,
then use the XDisk installer to build a new "original" drive?

Thinking quite seriously about putting the most frequently watched stuff
directly on the XBox itself, but that's gonna chew up an ickle 10G hard
drive so fast it isn't funny!

Ian.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 9:30 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Xbox Hard Drive


>
> I was going to do something similar - 10Gb makes a nice handy boot
drive
for
> a PC at home (all my data is on the servers upstairs) but I forgot to
take
a
> copy of the serial key that is written to the drive by the XBox and
you
need
> that to unlock the drive to be able to use it for anything. Of course
once
> you've "upgraded" your XBox then its serial key changes and
so you're left
> with a paperweight.
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Mouser [mailto:rmouser@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 06 November 2003 07:58
> > To: Ukha
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Xbox Hard Drive
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have the original Seagate 10gb hard drive that came out of my
xbox. I
> > was hoping to bung it in an old PC that only had a 2gb drive in
it.
> > The BIOS correctly identifies the drive. But any attempt to
access it,
> > FDISK whatever just reports an error saying it can't access the
drive.
> > Even Seagate's Ontrack drive tools falls over at the point of
finding
> > the drive.
> >
> > Are these drives locked in some way? And have I just got my self
a new
> > paperweight?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
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