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How to clone a HD for backup or use in another XBOX |
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How to clone a HD for backup or use in another XBOXPublished by  Jeepman on 2003-05-31
Category: XBOX | Page Views: 12,436
Tutorial
written
by : Jeepman
This
tutorial
assumes:
-
basic
hardware
skills
&
knowledge
(IDE
Master
vs.
Slave,
Jumpers,
etc)
- basic
DOS
skills,
BIOS
navigation,
etc.
- that
your
XBOX
either
has
a mod
chip
installed
that
supports
Hard
drive
swap
or have
the
BIOS
flashed
with
a cracked
BIOS
that
support
HDD
swap.
Recommendations:
•
Make
sure
the
hard
drive
you
are
cloning
is fully
functional
and
has
on it
all
the
games
or apps
backed
up that
you
want
on the
new
HDD.
•
Make
sure
the
EvolutionX
Dashboard
or a
Dashboard
or your
choice
is installed
on the
hard
drive
you
are
going
to clone.
•
Hard
drives
should
be the
same
size.
(I have
not
tried
with
different
sizes
but
since
you
are
doing
bit
for
bit
cloning,
I would
expect
problems
if the
drives
are
different
sizes)
Instructions:
1)
Make
a Norton
Ghost
2002
boot
disk.
(There
are
other
programs
that
will
do bit
for
bit
copying
but
Norton
was
the
easiest
for
me here).
If you
use
something
else
and
it don’t
work,
I reserve
the
right
to say
‘I
told
you
so’).
2) Set
the
Jumper(s)
on the
original
hard
drive
so that
the
HDD
is master
and
install
it into
your
PC.
3) Set
Jumper(s)
on the
hard
drive
to be
cloned
so that
the
HDD
is slave
and
install
it on
the
same
IDE
channel
in the
PC.
note:
You
can
do the
Original
as Master
on IDE1,
and
the
Clone
as Master
on IDE2,
but
be CAREFUL
NOT
to kill
your
original
HDD
by overwriting
the
clone
to it.
Doing
as outlined
here
makes
it more
‘obvious’
as to
what
should
be copied
where…
however,
proceed
at your
own
peril.
4) Make
sure
your
computer
CMOS
is set
to boot
to the
floppy
first
and
boot
the
computer
off
the
Ghost
2002
boot
disk.
5) Once
the
program
loads,
go to
the
menu
and
quit
or exit
to DOS.
6) Re-execute
Ghost
from
DOS
but
this
time
add
the
switch
“/ir”.
At the
DOS
prompt
type:
“ghostpe
/ir”.
This
will
allow
Ghost
to simply
copy
bit
for
bit
on the
clone
rather
than
try
to read
the
image
on the
original
HDD
as a
valid
FAT32
or NTFS.
7) When
Ghost
has
loaded
this
time,
open
the
menu
and
go to
“Disk”
and
then
“to
Disk”.
8) Select
the
original
hard
drive
as the
source.
(If
you
jumpered
the
original
as the
master
it will
be the
top
drive
to select
in the
menu
and
will
have
a “Raw
Image”)
9) Select
the
new
hard
drive
as the
destination
and
give
her
nuts.
10)
This
process
will
take
about
45 minutes
to clone
an 80
gig
hard
drive
depending
on your
computer
speed.
11)
When
the
clone
is finished,
the
new
hard
drive
should
work
identical
to the
original
in any
modded
xbox
that
supports
HDD
swap.
12)
Take
the
hard
drives
out
of the
PC and
rejumper
them
to what
they
were
before
you
installed
them
into
the
computer,
most
likely
CS (cable
select)
or MAS
(master).
13)
Install
them
back
into
the
XBOX
or put
the
back
up hard
drive
in a
safe
place
and
you
are
done.
14)
This
will
work
in place
of installing
a hard
drive
and
portioning
it via
ftp
if you
are
swapping
hard
drives
on an
xbox.
You
will
just
need
to find
someone
with
a hard
drive
you
can
clone.
MAKE
SURE YOU
KNOW WHICH
HARD DRIVE
IS WHICH
WHEN YOU
GO TO
CLONE
THEM.
BE CAREFUL
BECAUSE
YOU CAN
DESTROY
THE ORIGINAL
HARD DRIVE
IF YOU
ARE NOT
CAREFUL.
If
you do
torch
it, then
again,
I ‘told
you so’.
Don’t
bug me
or msg
me…
and if
your question
is something
like ‘how
do I get
into the
BIOS?’
then just
take your
HDD and
throw
it out
the window…
‘cuz
when you
are done
with this
tutorial,
that is
all it
will be
good for.
=)
Tutorial
written
by : Jeepman
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