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Steadders
24th June 2003, 16:53
do you think the xbox has a standerd ide hdd? with ide cables and 4 pin power adapter? if so im tempted to have a look :P
spaz
24th June 2003, 17:18
it is essentially a normal ide drive but has special firmware on it or something so unless you get the xbox chipped it cant have another hard drive, and in windows it can read the size of the drive but cant access it for some reason
Dwarf_Pr0n
25th June 2003, 08:20
The Xbox does have a standard hard drive but it is specially formatted for Xbox.
People have put them in their PC's before and formatted them to their OS. Although you do need a special tool to format a hard drive back to something the Xbox can read.
Jazza
25th June 2003, 08:46
the hard drive is also password protected
Dwarf_Pr0n
25th June 2003, 09:21
But there are tools for that kind of thing :)
Jez_Gafys
25th June 2003, 20:32
Tells you how to change the hard drive on this site and alos how to backup the existing data by FTPing onto the old drive

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/howto/story/0,24330,3423058,00.html


The site below also explains why you cant read from the disk on a pc and also a good piece on installing a new hd in the xbox

http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lock-hdd.php
Triprotic-Acid
26th June 2003, 06:43
don't forget though, if you modify your Xbox it wont work on Live afterwards.
Jazza
26th June 2003, 10:16
No true anymore, with the more recent mods, they have a switch to disable the mod, so they will work with Live, although, you never know when MS will release an update to look for it though :(

Originally posted by Triprotic-Acid
don't forget though, if you modify your Xbox it wont work on Live afterwards.
Dwarf_Pr0n
26th June 2003, 10:18
I think with how strict Microsoft are on modding it won't be long before they get Xbox Live looking for any change on the board.
There has to be something that gives away the switchable mods that can be detected.
Chamma
1st July 2003, 09:32
The xbox games can be played online without live though, using either
gamespy (http://www.gamespy.com)
or
xb connect (http://www.xbconnect.com)

i havent been able to try it myself yet (some little bastard stole halo from me) but i've been told that it works great.

[edit]Also i was told you can use the xblive headset over XB connect, which is nice[edit]