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hddhackr 120gb drive for xbox
Purchased a 120 GB drive for the XBOX and used hddhackr to modify it. Very nice software. Had some issues though.
First I had to boot to DOS from a usb stick, used this tutorial to do that: Link. I ended up downloading the ODIN 2880 version... Not sure what the differences are between the versions.
Ran into the problem where it was displaying: Error in the DJ mechanism!
Found this solution: http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/newsitem/173.html
Then I ran into the problem where hddhackr wouldn't find my drive. Solution is in the readme of the hddhackr. Had to change the I/O ports that it was using to find the drive. Got to use a hex editor wow.
After that it worked. I haven't attached it to the Xbox yet, can't find my srewdriver set at the moment...
First I had to boot to DOS from a usb stick, used this tutorial to do that: Link. I ended up downloading the ODIN 2880 version... Not sure what the differences are between the versions.
Ran into the problem where it was displaying: Error in the DJ mechanism!
Found this solution: http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/newsitem/173.html
Then I ran into the problem where hddhackr wouldn't find my drive. Solution is in the readme of the hddhackr. Had to change the I/O ports that it was using to find the drive. Got to use a hex editor wow.
After that it worked. I haven't attached it to the Xbox yet, can't find my srewdriver set at the moment...
Install WinXP x64 from USB

I recently purchased a new motherboard and CPU for an old computer, and was looking forward to trying it out. However, I recently gave my parents my only DVD drive (I might have others, but they are packed away at the moment). So I looked for alternatives. Seems like there is pretty good support for installing OS's from flash drives now.
Looks like I closed the website I found this program on, but it is called WinSetupFromUSB. This is a great program that has everything you need integrated into it. I am not sure what the other options do.
I just mounted a winXP x64 iso, put that in the source, and selected my USB drive and hit GO. It warned me that the iso didn't look right, but it worked.
Then I had problems with my BIOS booting the USB, it wouldn't do it from the boot menu, I had to change the boot order so that USB was first. But then everything went normally... Pretty cool.
This is pretty funny, too bad there isn't a picture...
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