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Re: Xbox (classic) HDD upgrade



On 12 Jan 2009, at 10:49, Marcus Warrington wrote:

> I did this myself over the Christmas period. Replaced the 8Gig hard
> drive in the living room XBox (softmodded) with a 60gig 2.5"
laptop
> harddrive. The reason for using a laptop drive was that I have a few
> lying around spare, and also it should generate less heat which
> means the fan won't have to work as hard. Used a little program
> called "chimp2.6" which you simply ftp onto the Xbox before
you
> start. Didn't use a PC just a "Y" splitter to power both
hard drives
> and the DVD drive at the same time, and hot swapped the DVD IDE
> cable to the new hard drive after booting. All in all took about
> 10mins and I will be doing my other 3 XBoxes when I get a spare half
> hour or so.
>
> Marcus
>


any idea where I can get chimp2.6 from all the links i've found are
broken :(

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