@@MrMario2011 You can, but I don't see why you'd want to lol. I vaguely recall booting from a CD on an old XP machine that had the EEPROM on it. The program read the key and I think did the imaging for you. This is the same, but man is it streamlined... I feel old now.
It's quite useful to use a PC if you have a busted DVD drive, I did that with one of my consoles years ago for that exact reason. You can also build your own hard drives and lock them all on the PC as long as you have a EEPROM. The second option is quite useful if you're in a situation such as reviving a stock Xbox without a working HDD, assuming you have a way to pull the EEPROM from your motherboard.
Thank you MrMario2011, great high quality tutorial! For the other guys out there: For cloning I used the IDE cable from the XBOX itself, after cloning I did a reboot and ended up with error 13. That's what happens, when a 40-wire-cable is used - if a UDMA-drive is used, the 80-wire-cable is mandatory - as stated by MrMario2011.
Just cloned my old drive with an old PS4 drive I had laying around. 2 weeks ago I started with an unopened Xbox that was in the throes of death, now I got a cleaned, repasted and upgraded Xbox that runs like a champ. Your videos have been immensely helpful on my journey, can't thank you enough Mr.Mario!
This still works the same in 2022. I just followed this perfectly. The only caveat was I was upgrading to a locked hdd from a broken hdd without an hdd key to use. I simply connected it to the PC with a IDE to USB adapter and unlocked it with one of the various unlocking tricks baked into FatXplorer64 beta. After I ran chimp, the only thing different was that Chimp didn’t ask me to relock the drive. I had to reconnect it to the PC one last time. FatXplorer’s beta now lets you remove the old password and assign a new one. I took the eeprom file from this xbox and loaded it into Fatxplorer and assigned the password to the newer hdd and relocked it. Then it recognized just fine in the xbox.
Thank you for the tutorial. I originally bought the SATA to IDE conversion kit and 3 of my 2tb Drives were not lockable so I put the system away for a week until I bought a Hitatchi Deskstar HDS724040KLAT80 400GB IDE Drive and now I have went from 10GB to 400GB which is plenty of space for my needs.
For what it's worth, I practiced and got the hot swap down in a few seconds, but when it actually came time, it took me 20 seconds and it still worked perfectly fine. I have a 1tb HDD in my Xbox thanks to you
Another helpful video Mr. Mario! Just finished a soft mod using Rocky5's tool and upgraded to a Hitachi Ultrastar A7K2000 2TB Sata hard drive. It locked successfully and I now have two extra partitions (F & G), each 1TB! Thank you a million times! SO much modding getting done during this pandemic and quarantine lol, kids are loving the games I grew up with!
It depends on your choice of use for the 2tb. It's very useful for Xbox Media Center content, music, homebrew apps too. And if your game library is large enough it will most certainly take up the entire 2tb. Especially if your games aren't compressed 🙂
Followed your old Rocky5 video several years back and upgraded the HDD to a spare 160gb IDE drive laying around. Used Qwix to create a burnable ISO from the new Rocky5 linked in your new video, used imgburn with a DVD-R, launched disc, used the advanced tools option to update, redumped EEPROM and backed up to a labeled folder, installed MS Dash for Insignia and reinstalled UnleashX for default dash, and happy so far! No games or save data on existing partition were lost in the process. Got my StarTech IDE to SATA adapter and a new HDD prepped for a 2024 refresh and Chimp ready to go!
Would you mind sharing what drive did you used? I just decided to mod an Xbox I bought a year ago and the person did not disclose the DVD drive not working and I jus saved the console until I could mod it later on and finally got into doing it now. Originally I wanted a 2TB drive but If I am understanding correctly since it is softmodded, we are limited in the options of drives. I saw your comment with a 500Gbs Sata WD and has me curious if I am wrong. Would you mind sharing some info? Thanks!
Just upgraded my Xbox to 2TB. It was very easy. For those that might not know, in the same ISO file you get to install Chimp, you install xbpartioner to extend the partitions so you can utilize the 2TB. Installing all my childhood games, thank you very much man. I used the startech adapter and my 2nd xbox to power it for the process. Went smooth as butter.
Just wondering, I assume Xbox has a bit of trouble reading 2TB but you made 2 partitions (for example) into 1TB each so the Xbox could read it? What was the need to extend the partition in the first place? (I've not softmodded I'm just looking into it all).
Thank you. Using your tutorials I’ve successfully softmodded my pal crystal Xbox with Rocky5’s softmod installer and I’ve upgraded the hard drive to 500GB. 👍🏻 congrats on 100K
Saw this on Tuesday and now I have a green Halo edition with the necessary components you linked, on the way. I cannot wait to get home this weekend to try it out. Top notch tutorials. I have never owned an original xbox, this should be fun!👊
It feels like you are making these videos just-for-me! Spare WD1200 drive that was removed from my PC in the late 2K is now working in my recently soft-modded XBOX. Now need to upgrade the video output. Keeping the original drive as spare.
Just upgraded the hard drive of my Xbox using your guide, works like a charm!! The only thing I MUST warn to anyone that wants to upgrade the HDD, The IDE cable is very fragile. I was getting a feel for switching the IDE cable from the DVD drive to the new hard drive and I broke the IDE connector. So, I had to order another IDE cable but they are pretty cheap. The only tip I can give on that aspect is when you unplug the IDE cable from the DVD drive you can partially put it on, so it's A LOT easier to take out and minimize the risk of using too much force on swapping it and breaking the connector like I did. :)
Had a nerve-wracking afternoon switching to the new cable etc, and trying to find a usb stick the Xbox would recognise. In then end I hooked up my PSP over usb and it was recognised, so I used that for the softmod file transfer! Just finished the cloning stage to a Toshiba 250gb mk2565gsxv SATA drive and successfully locked! And it is soooooo much quieter.. Also - worth mentioning.. when it came time for the the drive switch over from dvd drive to the clone it took me a good 8-9 seconds to get the cable connected - my stupid cable has that connector upside-down - and it was still detected and worked fine!
Figured out my problem. The HDD from the amazon link did not work. I returned it and tried ebay. Just came this afternoon, brand new. Everything worked on the first try. Thanks a million for this tutorial and the help!
I had bought six of those cheap IDE adapters and only two worked correctly for me in my Xbox, they are fine in my old Win98 PC, I would play it safe and buy the StarTech IDE2SAT2, also they seem to boot faster when using bigger HDD's, thanks for all the OG Xbox love, great videos.
I'm getting a green screen every time I change the ATA cable from the DVD to the HDD. If i take de ATA cable and don't put it on the new HDD, it's fine, the system doesn't freeze. What am I doing wrong?
Just got this to work! If you guys are having issues with chimp not starting up you might just need a little patience even if you waited 5 minutes, after about 15 minutes of sitting on the chimp screen it finally worked
Note: If you're running your xbox with component cables, chimp MIGHT NOT show up correctly on your TV. I'm running a Trinitron and until I plugged in the regular composite cables, it didn't show the bootup screen correctly (Displayed wavy lines; Wasn't able to read anything). Caused me hours of troubleshooting and a couple burnt disks so might as well post it here to save someone the hassle.
So I ended up using a 2TB and was experiencing a lot of shutdowns... turns out! My Xbox was SDing because of too much power using both HDDs 8GB & 2TB. So I bought THAT "OVERKILL" adapter (which is awesome this is a forever useful tool) plugged the DC adapter and molex to the IDE SATA port to my 2TB. THEN I used the 8GB molex stock powered it up while the OVERKILL adapter was power via outlet then I used Chimp and now it's up and running! Thank you for the tutorials as always dude!
5:20 i remember when i first put up that video and posted it in iso zone to make sure people would never get a wrong sata adapter again. Love your work mate, i just checked in to see if you mentioned that detail in this video and your videos are just so impressive they're everything i wanted my videos to be, i just have all the information but can't be bothered to edit the videos and take the time. I wish in 2009 when i did my first xbox i had all this information. and all the links! it took me months to find working links for the softmod. As mentioned before, you should put a few more warnings out there, getting that eeprom all safe before the swap! maybe even to google drive. because you never know, someone might pop that molex in the wrong way and pop a drive haha :D :D keep up the good work, again, i love the detail, you dont see many people asking questions here because you have thought of them so well. good man
Learn from my mistake: just buy the red Startech Sata/ide adapter. It's a few bucks more than the cheapos, but it's worth it over waiting for shipping only to discover it doesn't work.
You totally saved my project.. I wasted HOURS trying to get it to work with with 2 different HDDs and multiple methods just to get nowhere with those cheapo green boards with the capacitors... You're the man
Cheapo boards work perfectly fine for me. The issue is generally cold solder joints, which you can spend a few minutes reflowing fairly easily. If you don't have a soldering iron or don't want to bother, yeah, pay more for a StarTech board. One other quick note here regarding the cheapo boards: You need to use a 80-wire IDE cable, or else they definitely will not work. Verified this myself across multiple Xboxes, SATA HDDs and SATA SSDs.
There is one small area where he failed to mention that may lead to a lot of frustration during the modification. When you get to the chimp software some hard drives take as much as 15 to 20 minutes to initiate the software. This part drove me mad until I walked away leaving it at the chimp software and came back about a hour later after eating dinner figuring I get a fresh start and it initiated. Good luck all!
I'd like to second this, I thought my replacement hard drive was a dud, until i read this, and waited 10 or so minutes for the chimp software to detect the hard drive.
this happend to me too, I thought my chimp loader was corrupt, that my drive was bad, that my softmod was bad, but i never have guessed that chimp loader would take more than in the video
My screen kept flickering every few seconds on the “attach slave drive and press A” screen, until I saw this I kept turning off, and restarting process. Then I looked up while reading and noticed the little Linux penguin and RELIEF flooded over me.
You saved me! Lmao Process didn't end up working as I kind of tried on an untested drive to see, but now I at least know how to go through the process and will do so with a listed compatible drive. Also my system mentioned that the primary drive security level was Maximum while the slave was High.
To run Chimp, on my v1.0 Xbox, I needed to connect an original Xbox Component cable to the Xbox for video. Chimp would not load with the Composite or 3rd Party HDMI cable. Hope this helps someone! Thanks for the great content Mr. Mario!
Good to know! This seems to be different across consoles. This video was recorded using a third party HDMI cable, and I've used component cables just fine, but many people have to revert back to composite cables.
Just want to point out that the adapter you show in your video is rather dangerous to use. The solder points for the molex plug extrude out from the back of the PCB far enough that they can actually touch the hard drive and cause a short. Its even worse when doing the hop swap as plugging in the IDE cable will push the points into the HDD and guarantee a short (I found this out the hard way and bricked my Xbox). If you are going to use the adapter shown in this video then make sure you find a way to stop the adapter from touching the hard drive and shorting out.
For anyone using the cheap SATA to PATA adapters. They do work. You have to take the cap on the adapter that is set to master and move it to slave. Then chimp will recognise the drive and you can upgrade the original HDD. Once you are done set it back to master.
MrMario2011 I think a lot of people have run into this using a SATA drive. Btw great tutorial, I would not have been able to softmod the Xbox without it.
i found a 500GB IDE drive at my local salvation army store for 10 BUCKS!!! brand new sealed i said to myself well i guess ill throw it into my original xbox used this guide to do it everything seems to be working great thanks for the tutorial
@@frogz yeah i just double checked JCRocky video guide on upgrading the original xbox hdd and you can use a converter but using an ide drive can be an option too
I just opened the Xbox my old friend gave me to find a horrific site of bug corpses, stains, dust bunnies, and God knows what else so I'll have to put this project on the shelf for a while til I get the poor bastard cleaned up a little bit without getting too much (or any) moisture around critical components.
Thank you for this tutorial. I was able to figure it out by my self (couldn't wait :)) but your vid has tons of information for me. I have made a few observations througout the process that might be interessting. First: upgrading from an oldish softmod to Rocky5's Xbox Softmod following your tutorial solved the issue of the pound HDMI cable not working with my pal 1.0 xbox, amazing! I tested the ide to sata adaptor shown in the vid on a 500 Sata drive. It worked but bootup and loading times where not that great, so i went back to a 200gb ide drive. And lastly: I startet Chimp before I unplug the ide cable from the DVD drive and took my time to plug it into the slave drive. Worked fine, no issues. Keep up the good work!
Interesting on the Pound cable not working prior. Did you have HD resolutions unlocked and NTSC mode enabled prior to upgrading your softmod? That's something that any softmod out there should help cover.
@@MrMario2011 I think the cable was not detected as HD before. I tried to enable the resolutions before and after, but saving would not work. Ntsc per enigma was enabled, but no luck. Now it works even in pal mode
Hey Mr Mario, I love all your vids. Fantastic Camera work, and really shows the modding process. One mod you haven't covered (at least to my knowledge and YT search function) if the 128MB Original Xbox mod. I would LOVE if you could make one up. there aren't really any good videos showing how to do it properly, and write ups leave a lot to be desired
I don’t know if you mentioned this, but if anyone is having issues with chimp shutting down/not displaying when launched, USE THE STANDARD AV CABLES and make sure you have 480p, 720p, and 1080i OFF in the screen settings.
I softmodded years ago and instead of cloning my drive i built one from xbox hdm. Eventually i made a component cable and was wondering why changing my options in unleash x for hd wouldnt work. I found out i needed to change it in the MS dash (which i didnt have because my drive was built and not cloned so it didnt have a working ms dash). I dug through old boxes and found the original hard drive, hooked it up and loaded the MS dash, changed the video settings and put my other drive back in and BOOM. 720p when unleash x launched. Many ways to go about it but in the end, having the stock drive around helped me out. I also used the stock drive as a test drive to test if the rocky5 upgrade would brick my system or not. Once it worked, i upgraded my main drive with no fear. Moral of the story, you never know what you will need the stock drive for. Just keep it and it can have a use some day.
I found, if you don't have any other way to power the other HDD, use a computer PSU that has molex on it. My CoolerMaster MasterWatt 550 came with the additional molex so by using that, you can power the drive, as long as your system is on. Also, you don't need to do it in 5 seconds, I took a 30 seconds to get my IDE lead in and the process was fine.
Finally accomplished soft mod & hd swap! Thanks for the videos! I steered a little off track of your instructions due to rocky 5 download linking me to download a different zip which worked out fine. And the extras disk I burned with windows 10 default burner software instead of image burn. Also I had to unlock the slave hdd before cloning. And my clone took hours maybe because I swapped to a 1 tb. But your videos are great and very helpful 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Great video as always dude. I keep all my stock drives and always unlock them so I can reuse them later if I get console with broken or missing hard drive.
I didn't want to spend $7 for the Y cable after losing the one I had, so I just gutted an old IDE external enclosure I got at a thrift store for $2 - and took out its power supply bits. Throwing that into a small project enclosure and now I have a stand alone molex power supply/IDE HDD tester. An idea inspired by your little USB gadget and this video. Thanks for the assist!
Great guide. Got myself setup in no time. I will say that you NEED an OEM Xbox controller to run Chimp. I was using my Gamestop controller and Chimp wouldn't recognize it. I put in my stick drift OEM controller and it worked fine.
But if you do as recommended and null the eeprom key, any harddrive locked with the null password (32 zeroes) can be used. I null every xbox I come across and can then use the same xboxhdm boot disc to create and lock a new drive.
put all your eeproms on google drive. but yeah i kept my stock drives too. not handy if you're doing bulk upgrades i had like 50 8gb seagates and some poor guy actually bought them all for $20 on ebay for some reason, maybe for raid? who knows hahaha
Yeah, not much use for those ~10GB drives anyways, might as well keep them with the console. I label them with a serial # that matches the XBOX to remember which is which. I know there are things to do like null the EPROM, but usually just do it once ever, and I think the nulling thing didn't exist back when I modded mine. I might be remembering wrong. Was a while ago.
I've had my original (initially softmodded) 8GB hard drive forever. It finally came in handy today!~ I have an Xbox Original with a corrupted eeprom, used a Raspberry Pi 4B to dump, checked, the entire eeprom was filled with 0xFF :'( so, I took the eeprom from my 1.6 softmodded xbox, edited the serial and version info to match the dead Xbox, flashed it over and plugged in my old 8GB drive, and viola! brought the xbox back to life! :D so yes. SAVE THAT DRIVE Y'ALL!!!
Thanks, worked well with my new 2TB SATA drive, even though I needed like 10 seconds or so for the IDE switch. Also removed the clock capacitor. Everything seems to have worked fine, just copying my first game to the drive. You explained everything very well, thanks for that! I have no idea what to do with my old Xbox drive now, though. Good question! ;)
Tips that helped me. 1. Even if your new HD (IDE) has a Cable select mode, still set it to slave. Hot swapping would confuse my Xbox when I did it with Cable Select being used. 2. If your chimp loader won't launch (TV says no signal) make sure you're using an original AV cable. For whatever reason Chimp REALLY doesn't like third party stuff. I had to dig out my old AV cable because my upgraded HDMI would show no signal. 3. Once loaded in to Chimp, make sure you use a 1st party controller. Like I said in tip 2, Chimp doesn't like third party stuff, and I couldn't get it to accept input unless it was an OG controller.
===IMPORTANT=== The latest version of chimp doesn't require you to hotswap the harddrive! I simply had to boot into it, wait for it load (with composite cables) and then plug the ribbon cable out of the DVD drive and into the new HDD.
Worked very nicely. I had some very old hdd's lying around my xbox has a nice 200gb Western Digital in it. Only screwed up a couple of things but were fixable. Now on to the recapping. Bulging caps suck.
Getting an original xbox hopefully today and that it'll ship and be here next week. Gonna try and softmod it soon after. Thanks for the great tutorials!
I tried a 2TB Seagate Barracuda with this guide and it worked. At first, the XBOX wouldn't boot with the newly cloned HDD, but it was because I forgot to swap the ribbon cable for an 80-pin one.
Back then many of us with softmods would upgrade the hdd using the xboxhdm program (later known as the xboxhdm2 and xboxhdm2usb). A bit of a hassle but it worked fine when done correctly
I botched like 3 in a row after doing two correctly. Unfortunately that was back when these things weren't cheap as dirt. 200 plus dollars blown on large (at the time) hard drives.
@@adamgronvold8608 On ocassion it would give me problem, but it was very rare. Though what was cool is if you did unlock your HDD and then your softmod shoots you an error because of it, I was able to use xboxhdm to just try and lock the drive and thats where it would usually give me a problem. I had (still have) the old Xenon ice solder-less chip (the 24k coded chip) so when that issue did arise, would plug in the chip and fix everything. A few years back on the emuXtras site it was mentioned that the PC program hddrawcopy would actually see and copy an old xbox hdd hooked up to your pc and make an image from it to then put onto another drive.
@@callmexxjacobxx my dumb ass never even considered that, assuming I voided the warranty for nefarious purposes anyway. The whole process is so much easier now though.
if you're using a separate power supply for the second drive like you are here it's probably better not to use something to separate the hdd and dvd drive that way the grounds get tied together somewhere other than the ide cable
My xbox freezes when I select applications after the hotswap any idea what's up? I tried the tsop and lifted a pad so this is my only path left for a bigger hdd
Wait, your earlier video told us to unlock the hdd (turning it all to a bunch of 0s) but this part has a warning saying NEVER unlock your master hdd? So which is it?
If your Xbox freezes after switching the ide cable and going to applications, MAKE SURE YOUR NEW HDD IS SET TO SLAVE. I had the same problem and this fixed it. I also started up chimp first, then I switched the ide cable.
So I fired up my old Xbox It came on for 10mins then has died with a flashing orange light 😭. I'm guessing recapping the mobo is needed to fix it. Fun times
Got black screen after swapping from original hdd to a 1 tb western digital sata ssd. Tested with Jumper set to master and cable select options on my startech adapter, no go. Any help on this?
@@drevilds6051 No problem man! I got stuck for more than a week because my local game stores don't have any official controllers. The stock HDD is pathetic and I was pretty bumbed out.
@@drevilds6051 you probably already know but it's wise to keep the old drive and also make a copy of the larger drive after you have ripped all your games to the Xbox. File transfers to and from the og xbox is slow and buggy from my experience so you're better off cloning a drive full of games.
Hey MrMario....! Can you give more Love on Gamecube plz? the only mod you have on your channel is the Xenochip Installation... and i have a suggestion too, like a cheap way to get a Hdmi on XBOX OG like the mod on wii2hdmi on xbox og... i asking for it because i dont see anyone doing it on a video...
There’s something called the Xbox HD Link 2. It’s an upgraded version of the original HD Link cable, who’s purpose was to convert the original Xbox’s output to HDMI, and also fixes some issues such as dull colors, grainy ness, etc. Tge HD Link 2 is even better than the original apparently. I’ll link it.
Correcting myself, the upgraded HD Link cable shares the same name. The original cable was discontinued, and the page for it gives a link for the upgraded one: www.poundtechnology.com/original-xbox-v2
I've tried to get this to work for 2 hours but either the xbox freezes on loading the app list or chimp doesn't do anything and just shows a exit button no asking to swap dvd with hdd like in the newest update so i think there might be something wrong with my system
@@MrMario2011 Sweet.. I'm looking forward to it. Mine needs new thermal paste, some cleaning and general maintenance, So it's a great time to change to a more modern storage media
If your system is chipped, I'd assume you can burn a disc to softmod it too, or just use the hardmodded option instead of softmodded in the drive cloning program.
Thank you so much! I had to switch to my composite cable to get it to show up and when refreshing after hot swapping I had to let it sit for some time but it all worked
For some reason I cannot get my HDD to be recognized by the Xbox. I'm making sure to hot swap very quickly too. :/ By that I mean I cannot proceed past the first screen that states to connect the drive and then press (A), any ideas? ***EDIT*** Turns out the wireless controller I was using was the issue. Luckily I thought of using the USB adapter (used for transferring the XBOX modding tools to the XBOX) and hooked up a USB keyboard to carry out the rest of the guide. To do this if you let CHIMP sit on the first screen it will eventually load you into the tool after about 5 minutes of sitting on the screen. I found this out by accident by letting the XBOX sit on the screen while searching on the web for a possible solution for my issue. I hope this helps someone, what a pain this can be depending on the hardware being used!
I have a 1.0 softmodded with the rocky5 software. I just upgraded my drive using the hot swap technique: as soon as the modded dashboard loads, you can make the swap. Take your time, no need to rush. First you plug and unplug the data cable, and then the power cable. Good to know about the keyboard though, as I used the original controller and did not experience the issue.
21:19 - if using a SATA converter, make sure at this point you switch it to master from slave, otherwise this won't work and you'll rip your hair out in agony.
Hello - I have my original Xbox which I want to upgrade the hard drive, unfortunately it won’t boot up to allow me to use chimp, I get error 7, is my hard drive toast and what can I do to salvage my Xbox as the hard drive is locked to the Xbox ?? Thanks
If you are putting the hard drive on the anti-static bag, you should put it inside out because the anti-static bags can sometimes be conductive on the outside
A 10Gb Harddrive is useless, these days with flash storage being more convenient and cheap. Just like you said: keep the old Harddrive as a spare. If your new Harddrive ever fails you have a quick "drop in" replacement to not have a paperweight (and redo the mod).
I'm a moron and unlocked my HDD. Now it's useless until I relock it. How can I go about locking it back with my modern PC? I don't have a older PC I can connect the HDD to. I know this video is old but I figured I'd give it a shot and ask.
You've got yourself a new subscriber, good sir. This was so easy to follow and one of the most satisfying mods I've ever done to a console. Gonna settle in for the weekend and dive back into some Ninja Gaiden Black, Burnout 3 and Otogi. :D
Just upgraded my Harddrive on my OG xbox to a 250Gb. Copying Halo2 to the F: drive. I used a sharpie to label the old drive and put it up on a shelf. I did also FTP and grabbed my EEPROM backup.
So I attempted to do this with the startech adapter and a 480gb ssd (with an 80 wire cable). But when I try to boot the xbox, after the opening animation the xbox is just stuck on a black screen. My ide adapter is set to master (I have also tried cable select) and I have tried cloning the drive multiple times, with the first 3 options for partition setup (F capped at 137, F takes all space, and G takes space beyond 137). Is there anything else I am missing or something that would cause this behavior of the console not booting after the startup animation. And could the issue be that a 480gb drive is just too big for a softmoded xbox, or I need to do a more spesific setup for it to work?
I fixed the issue. My best guess is that spesifc brand or model drives don't work as well with the startech adapter (I am using a kingston A400 drive, and I found multiple people with kingston drives, and the same issue). If you eject the disc drive a few times in will boot into unleash x. however thats a bit tedious, and also if you unplug power for too long, ejecting the disc drive no longer works. I needed to put my stock drive back in and boot into that, and then putting the ssd back in would allow disc ejecting to work. But the way to actually solve this is to go into NKPatcher and install the Kernel Fonts. For some reason that fixes the issue completely. Just though I'd post this if this was an issue for anyone else, and also that Kingston drives are probably best to avoid to not have to deal with all this (but can still totally work with the fix if its the drive you have.)
Even though I always hard mod my Xboxes, I always keep my original drives, because you just never know if you'll ever need it again. Because 99% of my Xboxes are hard modded, I unlock the drives, so I can lock them to other Xboxes if needed.
As long as you can keep them organized that's a good thing to do. I've kept the softmodded console hard drives on hand, which isn't many, but I don't really mind what happens to the hardmodded console hard drives new ones can be installed super easily.
Question. If I'm going to be using a fresh/new 2TB HDD, which option should I select at 19:50? I know you say it's not recommended to go over 1TB per partition, so is there a different option I need to choose here? Thank you!
Did this with a WD 500gb HDD. Best Christmas present ever.
Merry Christmas!
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I love that your videos are still posted for original xbox mods/upgrades. This helped greatly! Thanks!
For those having issues when booting Chimp (blue screen) - I had to switch to AV cable rather than my component. Worked fine after that.
I started with an AV cable and Chimp still won't boot and the screen will lock at times.
Man has this gotten easier.... as a kid, I remember booting into some program on a PC and having to do command line stuff.
Things definitely have gotten better, although you can still use a PC to do this!
@@MrMario2011 You can, but I don't see why you'd want to lol. I vaguely recall booting from a CD on an old XP machine that had the EEPROM on it. The program read the key and I think did the imaging for you.
This is the same, but man is it streamlined... I feel old now.
It's quite useful to use a PC if you have a busted DVD drive, I did that with one of my consoles years ago for that exact reason. You can also build your own hard drives and lock them all on the PC as long as you have a EEPROM. The second option is quite useful if you're in a situation such as reviving a stock Xbox without a working HDD, assuming you have a way to pull the EEPROM from your motherboard.
Thank you MrMario2011, great high quality tutorial! For the other guys out there: For cloning I used the IDE cable from the XBOX itself, after cloning I did a reboot and ended up with error 13. That's what happens, when a 40-wire-cable is used - if a UDMA-drive is used, the 80-wire-cable is mandatory - as stated by MrMario2011.
Just cloned my old drive with an old PS4 drive I had laying around. 2 weeks ago I started with an unopened Xbox that was in the throes of death, now I got a cleaned, repasted and upgraded Xbox that runs like a champ. Your videos have been immensely helpful on my journey, can't thank you enough Mr.Mario!
Glad you've gotten to breathe new life into it!
@@MrMario2011 Very relieving! Now to do it to my 2 other boxes. Ugh lol
This still works the same in 2022. I just followed this perfectly. The only caveat was I was upgrading to a locked hdd from a broken hdd without an hdd key to use. I simply connected it to the PC with a IDE to USB adapter and unlocked it with one of the various unlocking tricks baked into FatXplorer64 beta. After I ran chimp, the only thing different was that Chimp didn’t ask me to relock the drive. I had to reconnect it to the PC one last time. FatXplorer’s beta now lets you remove the old password and assign a new one. I took the eeprom file from this xbox and loaded it into Fatxplorer and assigned the password to the newer hdd and relocked it. Then it recognized just fine in the xbox.
Thank you for the tutorial. I originally bought the SATA to IDE conversion kit and 3 of my 2tb Drives were not lockable so I put the system away for a week until I bought a Hitatchi Deskstar HDS724040KLAT80 400GB IDE Drive and now I have went from 10GB to 400GB which is plenty of space for my needs.
Did this immediately following your soft mod tutorial in June 2020, FANTASTIC!
For what it's worth, I practiced and got the hot swap down in a few seconds, but when it actually came time, it took me 20 seconds and it still worked perfectly fine. I have a 1tb HDD in my Xbox thanks to you
lol sods law. about to try it now, wish me luck!
@@andrewnorris5415 ikr, my xbox turns off every time
Awesome. I'm about to do this with a 1tb as well, which hdd did you use? Also, how did you go about the partitioning/which option did you choose?
1 to? Isn't that a bit overkill?
@@hesiolite Not really, if you're wanting to load a lot of games.
The whole library is somewhere around 2tb.
Another helpful video Mr. Mario! Just finished a soft mod using Rocky5's tool and upgraded to a Hitachi Ultrastar A7K2000 2TB Sata hard drive. It locked successfully and I now have two extra partitions (F & G), each 1TB! Thank you a million times! SO much modding getting done during this pandemic and quarantine lol, kids are loving the games I grew up with!
Have fun!
is 2TB overkill ? to install tons of xbox games ?
It depends on your choice of use for the 2tb. It's very useful for Xbox Media Center content, music, homebrew apps too. And if your game library is large enough it will most certainly take up the entire 2tb. Especially if your games aren't compressed 🙂
Followed your old Rocky5 video several years back and upgraded the HDD to a spare 160gb IDE drive laying around.
Used Qwix to create a burnable ISO from the new Rocky5 linked in your new video, used imgburn with a DVD-R, launched disc, used the advanced tools option to update, redumped EEPROM and backed up to a labeled folder, installed MS Dash for Insignia and reinstalled UnleashX for default dash, and happy so far! No games or save data on existing partition were lost in the process.
Got my StarTech IDE to SATA adapter and a new HDD prepped for a 2024 refresh and Chimp ready to go!
Worked 100% with 500GB Sata WD and the startech Sata adapter. Tutorial worked great!
Would you mind sharing what drive did you used? I just decided to mod an Xbox I bought a year ago and the person did not disclose the DVD drive not working and I jus saved the console until I could mod it later on and finally got into doing it now. Originally I wanted a 2TB drive but If I am understanding correctly since it is softmodded, we are limited in the options of drives. I saw your comment with a 500Gbs Sata WD and has me curious if I am wrong. Would you mind sharing some info? Thanks!
Despite a lack of technical skill I was able to complete a drive swap thanks to this guide, thank-you!
Just upgraded my Xbox to 2TB. It was very easy. For those that might not know, in the same ISO file you get to install Chimp, you install xbpartioner to extend the partitions so you can utilize the 2TB. Installing all my childhood games, thank you very much man.
I used the startech adapter and my 2nd xbox to power it for the process. Went smooth as butter.
HEY YOU, superstar, your ass is gracias
Just wondering, I assume Xbox has a bit of trouble reading 2TB but you made 2 partitions (for example) into 1TB each so the Xbox could read it? What was the need to extend the partition in the first place? (I've not softmodded I'm just looking into it all).
@@HDbacon disk backups, is why the storage is needed
Thank you. Using your tutorials I’ve successfully softmodded my pal crystal Xbox with Rocky5’s softmod installer and I’ve upgraded the hard drive to 500GB. 👍🏻 congrats on 100K
Excellent!
What brand and model drive please?
@@MrMario2011I know you probably won’t see this but I did this and got error code 9 what do I do, how to change jumper??
Saw this on Tuesday and now I have a green Halo edition with the necessary components you linked, on the way. I cannot wait to get home this weekend to try it out. Top notch tutorials. I have never owned an original xbox, this should be fun!👊
Good luck! My main console is my TSOP flashed Halo Green console with a 2 TB SATA HDD. Awesome looking system to mod up!
What did you do with your Xbox?
@@LouiesLog I did a tsop flash and installed a 2tb HDD and added all the games i could find!
It feels like you are making these videos just-for-me! Spare WD1200 drive that was removed from my PC in the late 2K is now working in my recently soft-modded XBOX. Now need to upgrade the video output. Keeping the original drive as spare.
Good stuff! Glad to help.
Quite literally, your videos are the best tutorials out there. This was an easy sub. Just found you tonight!
Welcome aboard!
Just upgraded the hard drive of my Xbox using your guide, works like a charm!! The only thing I MUST warn to anyone that wants to upgrade the HDD, The IDE cable is very fragile. I was getting a feel for switching the IDE cable from the DVD drive to the new hard drive and I broke the IDE connector. So, I had to order another IDE cable but they are pretty cheap. The only tip I can give on that aspect is when you unplug the IDE cable from the DVD drive you can partially put it on, so it's A LOT easier to take out and minimize the risk of using too much force on swapping it and breaking the connector like I did. :)
Mine broke instantly when I started to remove it, luckily I had a spare. I couldn't believe how fragile it was.
This is surprising, I was very careful with mine and needed a lot of force to remove. I feel like I need to actively try to break mine...
Had a nerve-wracking afternoon switching to the new cable etc, and trying to find a usb stick the Xbox would recognise. In then end I hooked up my PSP over usb and it was recognised, so I used that for the softmod file transfer! Just finished the cloning stage to a Toshiba 250gb mk2565gsxv SATA drive and successfully locked! And it is soooooo much quieter..
Also - worth mentioning.. when it came time for the the drive switch over from dvd drive to the clone it took me a good 8-9 seconds to get the cable connected - my stupid cable has that connector upside-down - and it was still detected and worked fine!
Figured out my problem. The HDD from the amazon link did not work. I returned it and tried ebay. Just came this afternoon, brand new. Everything worked on the first try. Thanks a million for this tutorial and the help!
BIG LOVE
Thanks for the excellent tutorial! Just installed a 1TB harddrive and works like a charm, seems to be lagging at bootup but after that it seems fine!
I had bought six of those cheap IDE adapters and only two worked correctly for me in my Xbox, they are fine in my old Win98 PC, I would play it safe and buy the StarTech IDE2SAT2, also they seem to boot faster when using bigger HDD's, thanks for all the OG Xbox love, great videos.
That one would make it so I don’t have to buy splitter or ide cable right? On Amazon it would then be cheaper I assume?
I'm getting a green screen every time I change the ATA cable from the DVD to the HDD. If i take de ATA cable and don't put it on the new HDD, it's fine, the system doesn't freeze. What am I doing wrong?
Same any help?
You need to use standard AV cables rather than Component or HDMI was having the same problem until I switched the AV cable.
@@oldandboring01 I’m using AV
@@millmr20 double check your HDD is compatible and using an 80 wire cable if needed?
You need a new IDE pin cable.
Alright! Got my Xbox upgraded and my stock HDD stored just in case anything happens to my new HDD. Informative as always
Worked beautifully with a Seagate Barracude 1TB + Cheapo eBay adapter. Nice work!
2 years later, this tutorial worked again for my halo xbox with again a cheap ebay IDE/SATA adapter
Just got this to work! If you guys are having issues with chimp not starting up you might just need a little patience even if you waited 5 minutes, after about 15 minutes of sitting on the chimp screen it finally worked
Note: If you're running your xbox with component cables, chimp MIGHT NOT show up correctly on your TV. I'm running a Trinitron and until I plugged in the regular composite cables, it didn't show the bootup screen correctly (Displayed wavy lines; Wasn't able to read anything). Caused me hours of troubleshooting and a couple burnt disks so might as well post it here to save someone the hassle.
You are the best!!!!
Thanks for the super helpful pro tip!!! :D
It looked like crap but worked for me
Thanks man. I thought i was going crazy
This applies to HDMI adapters as well. So glad I found out I just needed to use RCA instead.
So I ended up using a 2TB and was experiencing a lot of shutdowns... turns out! My Xbox was SDing because of too much power using both HDDs 8GB & 2TB.
So I bought THAT "OVERKILL" adapter (which is awesome this is a forever useful tool) plugged the DC adapter and molex to the IDE SATA port to my 2TB. THEN I used the 8GB molex stock powered it up while the OVERKILL adapter was power via outlet then I used Chimp and now it's up and running!
Thank you for the tutorials as always dude!
Thanks for sharing!
5:20 i remember when i first put up that video and posted it in iso zone to make sure people would never get a wrong sata adapter again. Love your work mate, i just checked in to see if you mentioned that detail in this video and your videos are just so impressive they're everything i wanted my videos to be, i just have all the information but can't be bothered to edit the videos and take the time.
I wish in 2009 when i did my first xbox i had all this information. and all the links! it took me months to find working links for the softmod. As mentioned before, you should put a few more warnings out there, getting that eeprom all safe before the swap! maybe even to google drive. because you never know, someone might pop that molex in the wrong way and pop a drive haha :D :D keep up the good work, again, i love the detail, you dont see many people asking questions here because you have thought of them so well. good man
Your details definitely helped out!
Man I remember being a regular on TheIsoZone. Rest in peace...
Learn from my mistake: just buy the red Startech Sata/ide adapter. It's a few bucks more than the cheapos, but it's worth it over waiting for shipping only to discover it doesn't work.
I wish i saw this earlier. Same thing happened to me
You totally saved my project.. I wasted HOURS trying to get it to work with with 2 different HDDs and multiple methods just to get nowhere with those cheapo green boards with the capacitors... You're the man
@@allouttabublgum Glad I could help!
Cheapo boards work perfectly fine for me. The issue is generally cold solder joints, which you can spend a few minutes reflowing fairly easily. If you don't have a soldering iron or don't want to bother, yeah, pay more for a StarTech board.
One other quick note here regarding the cheapo boards: You need to use a 80-wire IDE cable, or else they definitely will not work. Verified this myself across multiple Xboxes, SATA HDDs and SATA SSDs.
Which hard drive did you use?
There is one small area where he failed to mention that may lead to a lot of frustration during the modification. When you get to the chimp software some hard drives take as much as 15 to 20 minutes to initiate the software. This part drove me mad until I walked away leaving it at the chimp software and came back about a hour later after eating dinner figuring I get a fresh start and it initiated. Good luck all!
I've NEVER run into it taking anywhere close to that long, but thanks for letting the masses know!
I'd like to second this, I thought my replacement hard drive was a dud, until i read this, and waited 10 or so minutes for the chimp software to detect the hard drive.
this happend to me too, I thought my chimp loader was corrupt, that my drive was bad, that my softmod was bad, but i never have guessed that chimp loader would take more than in the video
My screen kept flickering every few seconds on the “attach slave drive and press A” screen, until I saw this I kept turning off, and restarting process. Then I looked up while reading and noticed the little Linux penguin and RELIEF flooded over me.
You saved me! Lmao
Process didn't end up working as I kind of tried on an untested drive to see, but now I at least know how to go through the process and will do so with a listed compatible drive.
Also my system mentioned that the primary drive security level was Maximum while the slave was High.
To run Chimp, on my v1.0 Xbox, I needed to connect an original Xbox Component cable to the Xbox for video. Chimp would not load with the Composite or 3rd Party HDMI cable. Hope this helps someone! Thanks for the great content Mr. Mario!
Good to know! This seems to be different across consoles. This video was recorded using a third party HDMI cable, and I've used component cables just fine, but many people have to revert back to composite cables.
Just want to point out that the adapter you show in your video is rather dangerous to use.
The solder points for the molex plug extrude out from the back of the PCB far enough that they can actually touch the hard drive and cause a short. Its even worse when doing the hop swap as plugging in the IDE cable will push the points into the HDD and guarantee a short (I found this out the hard way and bricked my Xbox).
If you are going to use the adapter shown in this video then make sure you find a way to stop the adapter from touching the hard drive and shorting out.
Someone recommended using electric tape
For anyone using the cheap SATA to PATA adapters. They do work. You have to take the cap on the adapter that is set to master and move it to slave. Then chimp will recognise the drive and you can upgrade the original HDD. Once you are done set it back to master.
This is true
MrMario2011 I think a lot of people have run into this using a SATA drive. Btw great tutorial, I would not have been able to softmod the Xbox without it.
i found a 500GB IDE drive at my local salvation army store for 10 BUCKS!!! brand new sealed i said to myself well i guess ill throw it into my original xbox used this guide to do it everything seems to be working great thanks for the tutorial
I heard if you have a spare xbox 360 sdd you can just use that
@@undeadgenesis6713 you need a ide drive, 360 is sata
@@frogz I'm not sure because there are converters that can come in hand but maybe your right
@@frogz yeah i just double checked JCRocky video guide on upgrading the original xbox hdd and you can use a converter but using an ide drive can be an option too
250 gb hard drive installed! Thanks for the tutorial, my childhood xbox will live on.
Enjoy it!
I just opened the Xbox my old friend gave me to find a horrific site of bug corpses, stains, dust bunnies, and God knows what else so I'll have to put this project on the shelf for a while til I get the poor bastard cleaned up a little bit without getting too much (or any) moisture around critical components.
😋
Thank you for this tutorial. I was able to figure it out by my self (couldn't wait :)) but your vid has tons of information for me. I have made a few observations througout the process that might be interessting. First: upgrading from an oldish softmod to Rocky5's Xbox Softmod following your tutorial solved the issue of the pound HDMI cable not working with my pal 1.0 xbox, amazing!
I tested the ide to sata adaptor shown in the vid on a 500 Sata drive. It worked but bootup and loading times where not that great, so i went back to a 200gb ide drive. And lastly: I startet Chimp before I unplug the ide cable from the DVD drive and took my time to plug it into the slave drive. Worked fine, no issues.
Keep up the good work!
Interesting on the Pound cable not working prior. Did you have HD resolutions unlocked and NTSC mode enabled prior to upgrading your softmod? That's something that any softmod out there should help cover.
@@MrMario2011 I think the cable was not detected as HD before. I tried to enable the resolutions before and after, but saving would not work. Ntsc per enigma was enabled, but no luck. Now it works even in pal mode
Hey Mr Mario, I love all your vids. Fantastic Camera work, and really shows the modding process. One mod you haven't covered (at least to my knowledge and YT search function) if the 128MB Original Xbox mod. I would LOVE if you could make one up. there aren't really any good videos showing how to do it properly, and write ups leave a lot to be desired
I don’t know if you mentioned this, but if anyone is having issues with chimp shutting down/not displaying when launched, USE THE STANDARD AV CABLES and make sure you have 480p, 720p, and 1080i OFF in the screen settings.
I literally just did this last week 😂 I was looking for your video for this specific topic but I couldn't find it
It's here now at least? 🙃
I softmodded years ago and instead of cloning my drive i built one from xbox hdm. Eventually i made a component cable and was wondering why changing my options in unleash x for hd wouldnt work. I found out i needed to change it in the MS dash (which i didnt have because my drive was built and not cloned so it didnt have a working ms dash). I dug through old boxes and found the original hard drive, hooked it up and loaded the MS dash, changed the video settings and put my other drive back in and BOOM. 720p when unleash x launched. Many ways to go about it but in the end, having the stock drive around helped me out. I also used the stock drive as a test drive to test if the rocky5 upgrade would brick my system or not. Once it worked, i upgraded my main drive with no fear. Moral of the story, you never know what you will need the stock drive for. Just keep it and it can have a use some day.
I found, if you don't have any other way to power the other HDD, use a computer PSU that has molex on it. My CoolerMaster MasterWatt 550 came with the additional molex so by using that, you can power the drive, as long as your system is on.
Also, you don't need to do it in 5 seconds, I took a 30 seconds to get my IDE lead in and the process was fine.
ya it took me about 15 seconds to swap IDE cables on my first try and it worked fine for me
Finally accomplished soft mod & hd swap! Thanks for the videos! I steered a little off track of your instructions due to rocky 5 download linking me to download a different zip which worked out fine. And the extras disk I burned with windows 10 default burner software instead of image burn. Also I had to unlock the slave hdd before cloning. And my clone took hours maybe because I swapped to a 1 tb.
But your videos are great and very helpful 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
what ide to sata converter did you use?
Great video as always dude. I keep all my stock drives and always unlock them so I can reuse them later if I get console with broken or missing hard drive.
I didn't want to spend $7 for the Y cable after losing the one I had, so I just gutted an old IDE external enclosure I got at a thrift store for $2 - and took out its power supply bits. Throwing that into a small project enclosure and now I have a stand alone molex power supply/IDE HDD tester. An idea inspired by your little USB gadget and this video. Thanks for the assist!
Glad you're up and running!
After years of modding every other system. I'm gonna finally softmod than installing a 2tb hdd
Great guide. Got myself setup in no time. I will say that you NEED an OEM Xbox controller to run Chimp. I was using my Gamestop controller and Chimp wouldn't recognize it. I put in my stick drift OEM controller and it worked fine.
Keep my stock drives, just incase upgraded drive dies ...without the stock drive the xbox is only good for the bin.
Injustice well, the Xbox backs the eeprom from the drive to a usb drive so you can make a new drive
thats why you null the eeprom
But if you do as recommended and null the eeprom key, any harddrive locked with the null password (32 zeroes) can be used.
I null every xbox I come across and can then use the same xboxhdm boot disc to create and lock a new drive.
put all your eeproms on google drive. but yeah i kept my stock drives too. not handy if you're doing bulk upgrades i had like 50 8gb seagates and some poor guy actually bought them all for $20 on ebay for some reason, maybe for raid? who knows hahaha
Yeah, not much use for those ~10GB drives anyways, might as well keep them with the console. I label them with a serial # that matches the XBOX to remember which is which. I know there are things to do like null the EPROM, but usually just do it once ever, and I think the nulling thing didn't exist back when I modded mine. I might be remembering wrong. Was a while ago.
I've had my original (initially softmodded) 8GB hard drive forever. It finally came in handy today!~ I have an Xbox Original with a corrupted eeprom, used a Raspberry Pi 4B to dump, checked, the entire eeprom was filled with 0xFF :'( so, I took the eeprom from my 1.6 softmodded xbox, edited the serial and version info to match the dead Xbox, flashed it over and plugged in my old 8GB drive, and viola! brought the xbox back to life! :D so yes. SAVE THAT DRIVE Y'ALL!!!
Thanks, worked well with my new 2TB SATA drive, even though I needed like 10 seconds or so for the IDE switch. Also removed the clock capacitor.
Everything seems to have worked fine, just copying my first game to the drive. You explained everything very well, thanks for that!
I have no idea what to do with my old Xbox drive now, though. Good question! ;)
Great to hear!
What exact drive did you use?
@@MADmardigan138 Hey, I think it was this one: WD Blue 2TB BULK WD20EZRZ
Tips that helped me.
1. Even if your new HD (IDE) has a Cable select mode, still set it to slave. Hot swapping would confuse my Xbox when I did it with Cable Select being used.
2. If your chimp loader won't launch (TV says no signal) make sure you're using an original AV cable. For whatever reason Chimp REALLY doesn't like third party stuff. I had to dig out my old AV cable because my upgraded HDMI would show no signal.
3. Once loaded in to Chimp, make sure you use a 1st party controller. Like I said in tip 2, Chimp doesn't like third party stuff, and I couldn't get it to accept input unless it was an OG controller.
Superb video! I was going to make a tutorial myself, but this is so good I couldn’t improve on it. Thank you
Glad it helped!
===IMPORTANT===
The latest version of chimp doesn't require you to hotswap the harddrive! I simply had to boot into it, wait for it load (with composite cables) and then plug the ribbon cable out of the DVD drive and into the new HDD.
i didn't have any troubles swapping the cables immediately after starting up. i just launched chimp and swapped the ide when chimp said to connect it
Worked very nicely. I had some very old hdd's lying around my xbox has a nice 200gb Western Digital in it. Only screwed up a couple of things but were fixable. Now on to the recapping. Bulging caps suck.
Keep old hard drive for backup if softmod fails.
Getting an original xbox hopefully today and that it'll ship and be here next week. Gonna try and softmod it soon after. Thanks for the great tutorials!
I tried a 2TB Seagate Barracuda with this guide and it worked. At first, the XBOX wouldn't boot with the newly cloned HDD, but it was because I forgot to swap the ribbon cable for an 80-pin one.
Back then many of us with softmods would upgrade the hdd using the xboxhdm program (later known as the xboxhdm2 and xboxhdm2usb). A bit of a hassle but it worked fine when done correctly
I botched like 3 in a row after doing two correctly. Unfortunately that was back when these things weren't cheap as dirt. 200 plus dollars blown on large (at the time) hard drives.
@@adamgronvold8608 On ocassion it would give me problem, but it was very rare. Though what was cool is if you did unlock your HDD and then your softmod shoots you an error because of it, I was able to use xboxhdm to just try and lock the drive and thats where it would usually give me a problem. I had (still have) the old Xenon ice solder-less chip (the 24k coded chip) so when that issue did arise, would plug in the chip and fix everything. A few years back on the emuXtras site it was mentioned that the PC program hddrawcopy would actually see and copy an old xbox hdd hooked up to your pc and make an image from it to then put onto another drive.
@@adamgronvold8608 i blew a 2tb hdd and sent it back to seagate under manufactures warranty hahahaha
@@callmexxjacobxx my dumb ass never even considered that, assuming I voided the warranty for nefarious purposes anyway. The whole process is so much easier now though.
Great video! Now we just need one that shows the 2tb procedure...
if you're using a separate power supply for the second drive like you are here it's probably better not to use something to separate the hdd and dvd drive that way the grounds get tied together somewhere other than the ide cable
Amazing! I would be scared of touching the drive when the system is on haha. Looking into buying an xbox and tsop flashing it
With the help of your videos I managed to mod and upgrade my xbox. Thank you!
My xbox freezes when I select applications after the hotswap any idea what's up? I tried the tsop and lifted a pad so this is my only path left for a bigger hdd
joe gore make sure your new hard drive is set to slave!
Make sure you are using composite cables and not component. This took me forever to figure out
Ty so much Mr.Mario , I did this with a 2tb hdd seagate barracuda omfg! You have helped me and the community greatly! Appreciate everything you do!
good tutorial but i found out that when you are using the cd you need to have composite cables
Why’s that?
Wait, your earlier video told us to unlock the hdd (turning it all to a bunch of 0s) but this part has a warning saying NEVER unlock your master hdd? So which is it?
I'm doing this purely so that I have a bootable backup of my original drive
If your Xbox freezes after switching the ide cable and going to applications, MAKE SURE YOUR NEW HDD IS SET TO SLAVE. I had the same problem and this fixed it. I also started up chimp first, then I switched the ide cable.
Good looking out.
Thanks
So I fired up my old Xbox It came on for 10mins then has died with a flashing orange light 😭. I'm guessing recapping the mobo is needed to fix it. Fun times
Got black screen after swapping from original hdd to a 1 tb western digital sata ssd. Tested with Jumper set to master and cable select options on my startech adapter, no go. Any help on this?
Great tutorial! Thanks! Is there going to be a next part showing how to add Xbox games? 👍
Definitely need this
Thanks for the walk through. I swapped out to a 1tb wd blue sata drive with this tutorial!
Glad it helped!
Got stuck at chimp because I don't have a Microsoft brand controller but found out that a usb key board works in it's place.
Thanx a lot for your comment dude! It saved my time and money!)
@@drevilds6051 No problem man! I got stuck for more than a week because my local game stores don't have any official controllers. The stock HDD is pathetic and I was pretty bumbed out.
@@drevilds6051 you probably already know but it's wise to keep the old drive and also make a copy of the larger drive after you have ripped all your games to the Xbox. File transfers to and from the og xbox is slow and buggy from my experience so you're better off cloning a drive full of games.
i know this is old but ive been hot swapping for 2 hrs till i found this comment....no homo but i love you
Thanks again for another great tutorial video, gave my Xbox a second Life!
Hey MrMario....! Can you give more Love on Gamecube plz? the only mod you have on your channel is the Xenochip Installation... and i have a suggestion too, like a cheap way to get a Hdmi on XBOX OG like the mod on wii2hdmi on xbox og... i asking for it because i dont see anyone doing it on a video...
Big love.
There’s something called the Xbox HD Link 2. It’s an upgraded version of the original HD Link cable, who’s purpose was to convert the original Xbox’s output to HDMI, and also fixes some issues such as dull colors, grainy ness, etc. Tge HD Link 2 is even better than the original apparently. I’ll link it.
Correcting myself, the upgraded HD Link cable shares the same name. The original cable was discontinued, and the page for it gives a link for the upgraded one: www.poundtechnology.com/original-xbox-v2
I've tried to get this to work for 2 hours but either the xbox freezes on loading the app list or chimp doesn't do anything and just shows a exit button no asking to swap dvd with hdd like in the newest update so i think there might be something wrong with my system
I have a chipmoded Xbox. Will this work with that? Could you make a video where you take a chipmoded Xbox, and switch hard drive?
Soon.
@@MrMario2011 Sweet.. I'm looking forward to it. Mine needs new thermal paste, some cleaning and general maintenance, So it's a great time to change to a more modern storage media
If your system is chipped, I'd assume you can burn a disc to softmod it too, or just use the hardmodded option instead of softmodded in the drive cloning program.
if your system is chipped, watch the videos on TSOP flashing and skip to the software section of the video
Thank you so much! I had to switch to my composite cable to get it to show up and when refreshing after hot swapping I had to let it sit for some time but it all worked
For some reason I cannot get my HDD to be recognized by the Xbox. I'm making sure to hot swap very quickly too. :/ By that I mean I cannot proceed past the first screen that states to connect the drive and then press (A), any ideas?
***EDIT*** Turns out the wireless controller I was using was the issue. Luckily I thought of using the USB adapter (used for transferring the XBOX modding tools to the XBOX) and hooked up a USB keyboard to carry out the rest of the guide. To do this if you let CHIMP sit on the first screen it will eventually load you into the tool after about 5 minutes of sitting on the screen. I found this out by accident by letting the XBOX sit on the screen while searching on the web for a possible solution for my issue.
I hope this helps someone, what a pain this can be depending on the hardware being used!
I have a 1.0 softmodded with the rocky5 software. I just upgraded my drive using the hot swap technique: as soon as the modded dashboard loads, you can make the swap. Take your time, no need to rush. First you plug and unplug the data cable, and then the power cable. Good to know about the keyboard though, as I used the original controller and did not experience the issue.
did this on a unsupported ssd and it works.. gonna test further before i add it to the list
Can we use ide to SATA adapters for say a 2tb hdd? *edit nevermind just seen the rest of the video 😁
Thanks for this tutorial!
The window to switch is very small indeed but so nice to see everything being cloned.
Thanks.
Can I play burned Xbox games with the soft mod @MrMario2011
Yes! i just did this with mr marios tutorial on softmodding. I used imageburn and I’ve been playing burned games for awhile now!
@@peachylover4598 what DVD work best?
It's best to just run games from the HDD. they load quicker and it puts less wear and tear on your DVD drive.
You mean backups of your original games that you already own right?
@@thePiratePimpoh yeah, yeah that's what I mean.
21:19 - if using a SATA converter, make sure at this point you switch it to master from slave, otherwise this won't work and you'll rip your hair out in agony.
Pretty cruel and capitalistic for Microsoft to make this so damn hard.
Hello - I have my original Xbox which I want to upgrade the hard drive, unfortunately it won’t boot up to allow me to use chimp, I get error 7, is my hard drive toast and what can I do to salvage my Xbox as the hard drive is locked to the Xbox ?? Thanks
If you are putting the hard drive on the anti-static bag, you should put it inside out because the anti-static bags can sometimes be conductive on the outside
A 10Gb Harddrive is useless, these days with flash storage being more convenient and cheap. Just like you said: keep the old Harddrive as a spare. If your new Harddrive ever fails you have a quick "drop in" replacement to not have a paperweight (and redo the mod).
I'm a moron and unlocked my HDD. Now it's useless until I relock it. How can I go about locking it back with my modern PC? I don't have a older PC I can connect the HDD to. I know this video is old but I figured I'd give it a shot and ask.
You've got yourself a new subscriber, good sir. This was so easy to follow and one of the most satisfying mods I've ever done to a console. Gonna settle in for the weekend and dive back into some Ninja Gaiden Black, Burnout 3 and Otogi. :D
Have fun!
Thumbs up for NGB and Otogi. That’s practically all my channel is. LOL
Just upgraded my Harddrive on my OG xbox to a 250Gb. Copying Halo2 to the F: drive. I used a sharpie to label the old drive and put it up on a shelf. I did also FTP and grabbed my EEPROM backup.
hey defo the best tutorial out there ive used it a couple of times but cant seem to be able to perform a successful hotswap with numerous drives
Will you be covering all of this for hardmodded xbox as well? I'm really loving your content so far!
Soon™
@@MrMario2011 Eeeexcellent!
So I attempted to do this with the startech adapter and a 480gb ssd (with an 80 wire cable). But when I try to boot the xbox, after the opening animation the xbox is just stuck on a black screen. My ide adapter is set to master (I have also tried cable select) and I have tried cloning the drive multiple times, with the first 3 options for partition setup (F capped at 137, F takes all space, and G takes space beyond 137). Is there anything else I am missing or something that would cause this behavior of the console not booting after the startup animation. And could the issue be that a 480gb drive is just too big for a softmoded xbox, or I need to do a more spesific setup for it to work?
I fixed the issue. My best guess is that spesifc brand or model drives don't work as well with the startech adapter (I am using a kingston A400 drive, and I found multiple people with kingston drives, and the same issue). If you eject the disc drive a few times in will boot into unleash x. however thats a bit tedious, and also if you unplug power for too long, ejecting the disc drive no longer works. I needed to put my stock drive back in and boot into that, and then putting the ssd back in would allow disc ejecting to work. But the way to actually solve this is to go into NKPatcher and install the Kernel Fonts. For some reason that fixes the issue completely. Just though I'd post this if this was an issue for anyone else, and also that Kingston drives are probably best to avoid to not have to deal with all this (but can still totally work with the fix if its the drive you have.)
Even though I always hard mod my Xboxes, I always keep my original drives, because you just never know if you'll ever need it again. Because 99% of my Xboxes are hard modded, I unlock the drives, so I can lock them to other Xboxes if needed.
As long as you can keep them organized that's a good thing to do. I've kept the softmodded console hard drives on hand, which isn't many, but I don't really mind what happens to the hardmodded console hard drives new ones can be installed super easily.
Question. If I'm going to be using a fresh/new 2TB HDD, which option should I select at 19:50? I know you say it's not recommended to go over 1TB per partition, so is there a different option I need to choose here? Thank you!