If the XBOX is without power for more than that time, its internal clock will lose power and you won’t be able to boot off a DVD until you’ve reinserted the old hard-drive and started the XBOX once. The hard drive change over can easily be done under an hour.īefore you unplug the power out of your XBOX, make sure you are able to do all the steps required within 4-5 hours. Unplug the Xbox, press the eject and power buttons a few time to discharge some of the internal capacitors. Hint the Xbox below does not have a Thomson drive.
Modded Xbox Console without Thomson Driveĭo not to use a Thomson drive due to reliability and read issues. Hard Drive Configuration Disc (Slayers EvoX Auto Installer 2.7) Gamcube SD Card / PS2 Fat Hard Drive - viewtopic.php?p=322332#p322332 I also posted a Guide for the Game Cube and PS2 running installed disc games. See the References at the bottom that detail the mod chip. A second Xbox console or extra memory cards come in handy to backup all the game saves. Any game saves that are not locked can be backed up to the memory card. Note that the Xbox will either need a Soft Mod or a Mod Chip in order to install the replacement hard drive boot configuration disc. This is for the original Xbox, a larger hard drive upgrade replacement for the purpose of installing disc games and homebrew utilities. Chimp Method by Jagosaurus in the first Reply below
