Upgrade a Jtagged Xbox 360's hard drive, restore the avatars and Xbox 1 emulator

[Bigdogontop]

Does it matter if its a SATA, SATA 2, or SATA 3? I'm thinking about putting a clear HDD case with a bigger HD on my Jtag.

 

[Bigdogontop]

Read the entire forum and got my answer on the SATA2. I would be curious if anyone knows anything new on the SATA3?

 

[InsaneNutter]

It should work, however i have not used a SATA 3 drive so could not say for sure.

 

[pixelblue230]

Great TUT Just what i needed

 

[ZimHB123]

Hey insane nutter can I upgrade to a 3.5 inch 2TB because my older brother knows welding and soldering ,so he can increase the encloser's size . Will it format on 14699 Jtag Jasper 256mb

 

[InsaneNutter]

You will need an external power source for a 3.5" drive in the Xbox 360, the 360 will not supply it with enough power.

The only way around that would be to do a mod to draw the power from somewhere else on the 360's motherboard

See: HDD « DARKFiB3R and HDD 2 « DARKFiB3R

But yes if you can get the drive powered it will work inside an Xbox 360.

 

[n.evil]

Format problem

Hi,I'm fairly new to the scene. I've had an RGH'd falcon for a few months now and have filled the internal hard drive. I read the guide and bought myself a 500Gb laptop drive to replace the old internal drive.

My problem is when I press A to format the drive in NXE, my console doesn't do anything. It stays on the same screen and doesn't ask for my serial number.

Can anyone offer any advice?

Thanks
Si

 

[stucky]

im about to do the backwards compat part on my 360 so i can play an def jam fight for ny on my rgh..my question is after i do this an it erases an replaces my compat folders...all my 360 games on my hdd will still work also yeah?? sorry if its stupid q but i have to ask

 

[InsaneNutter]

If you dont have the correct partitions setup i believe that will erase all the data on your drive.

If you have done the partitions and just want to restore the Xbox 1 emulator then you can do that fine.

 

[stucky]

ok the baackwards compat didnt work for me neway ive tried 2games n both wont start:/
so my next question is about changing the hard-drive to a 1tb after its installed and formatted..what then?? do i have to re-create all the folders that were on my oringinal hdd an also wont i have to reinstall xex-menu again aswell or will the 360 automaticlly do all this????????

 

[MasterChief]

You will have to re install everything again, if you read the tutorial it explains how to copy files on to the hard drive by running XEX Menu from a CD.

You can also copy XEX Menu to the Content\0000000000000000 folder from the CD and it will then run from the hard drive.

 

[stucky]

well i have read the tutorial several times...there must be sumthing wrong wit my screen bcos the first mention of xex menu on the tutorial im reading is for backwards compat hack and even then it says "you should see xex menu" and nothin about running it from a cd.............

dont get me wrong i tink this tut is great an im glad insane nutter toke the time to explain it in full and step by step i was confused as to how i was gonna install xex menu onto a blank hard drive but now i see your saying i can run it from a cd.... will it then let me start creating folders? and also is there anything important that i cant forget to put back on the hdd or isit just my games,DLC and xbla

 

[stucky]

also jus to be sure...i dont actually run the 13599 update do i?.. i jus power down again straight away an when i boot up again my avatars wil be restored??

 

[InsaneNutter]

The tutorial talks about running it from a CD here:

You can download an image of this cd here: harddrive.iso
If you are unsure on how to burn CD images have a look at Digiex's guide on How to burn BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI images to disc. (Remember to unzip the ISO!)

When the disc has burned put it in your 360, it will be read as a Mixed Media Disc, go to the Game Library and you should see XEX Menu 1.1, load it up. (Select exit if you are asked to sign a profile in)

When XEX Menu is running from a CD you can browse the contents of the CD and copy XEX Menu from the CD to the hard drive, this will allow it to be loaded even when the CD is not in your console.

As for the avatars put which ever dash the console is on the usb stick, power the console on and the avatars should restore.

 

[rotchild]

Well, I plugged a Seagate 1TB Hard Drive, and it formatted with the console itself, nice. 926 GB free.

Can I skip the part with the partition stuff? I mean, is it only for people who want to add a partition for an old xbox 1 emulator, or is it mandatory?

Because when I insert the usb stick with the dash update (latest = 14719, which is the same dash version that is on my console... and oh, I'm using a RGH hacked M$ dash, by the way) for restoring the avatars, nothing happens. I mean, if I go to "storage" the console sees that the USB stick is inserted, but it's like a regular usb stick with some space occupied by the systrem update. And it's normal, right? I mean, why would the console use the USB stick to make an update to a dash that's already in the console? Sorry, but it doesn't make any sense. How will this restore the avatars that are (probably) present on the old Hard Drive, under "system items" ("marketplace system data", "rights database" and "video bookmark data"), my case, for example...

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[InsaneNutter]

The USB drive with the update on has to be FAT32 formatted, check that.

Also why not do a proper job? it will take you 5 minutes and your done.

I think the avatar data is stored on the partition with the Xbox 1 emulator, although off the top of my head i cant be 100% on this.

 

[rotchild]

The USB drive with the update on has to be FAT32 formatted, check that.

Also why not do a proper job? it will take you 5 minutes and your done.

I think the avatar data is stored on the partition with the Xbox 1 emulator, although off the top of my head i cant be 100% on this.

It's fine now... I missed renaming the folder to "$$ystemupdate" Sorry about that. The default .rar comes labled "$systemupdate", which won't work on RGH consoles.

By proper job you mean "installing" the partition for xbox emulator? Well, I probably won't play those games anyway, so why bother?

No, avatar data is not stored where you mentioned. Here's what I got from a friend in another forum:

The reason why you need to apply the full 14719 update to a RGH box already on 14719 is because part of the dash (16MB of it) is stored in flash and needs to be the 'hacked' version which was installed when your box was originally modded for RGH. However, avatar etc data is larger than will fit in 16MB flash and so needs to reside on HDD but is dash version-specific. Hence, if you have a 14719 RGH flash image, to restore avatars, you need to install the full 14719 update. It will not overwrite your RGH image in flash, it will simply update the HDD parts.

In order to avoid problems when doing this, most modders remove resistor R6T3 on the mainboard which prevents problems applying official updates to modded boxes. You can check with your modder if this was done. Generally speaking, as long as you apply the same version update as your existing dash, all will be well.

If you have Dash Launch installed (do you? you don't have FSD installed) then that is the software which blocks USB (or other) dash updates. If you have DL installed and have the setting to block updates switched on in your launch.ini then you need to rename the update folder $$ystemupdate, not any of the variants you listed - attention detail! If you do not have DL installed then the update, as usual, on a USB stick (or CD etc) will work fine.

 

[supermustafa1234]

I have an xbox 360 s with 4 gb flash memory that has been RGH'd so instead of putting it in a enclosure, I can just put the hard drive in my 360, right?

 

[InsaneNutter]

Yes you can, it will be a bit tricky, however it is perfectly possible just to slot the drive in.

 

[supermustafa1234]

For the update part, When I boot up my 360 with the fat 32usb plugged in and when I get prompted to update, do i press update(will I even get prompted to get updated, because I havent tried yet)