Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject: need help upgrading hdd and using chimp
ok i have a softmodded xbox and i want to upgrade my hard drive,i got a new 120gig seagate drive i want to put in it,got the torx screwdrivers and the molex splitter and chimp on the xbox so now im ready to go.im a little scared lol, i have looked around for a good detailed tutorial for chimp but some seem bit hard to understand so if anyone knows of a good one can you point me to where it is, or maybe just help me along the way,i have looked at my 120g hdd and its set to cable select do i have to change it to slave before i start? any help and advice would be great im a newbie so be gentle lol
thanks in advance
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject:
There's a good Chimp tutorial underneath my sig, its the same one I followed when I did my first HDD upgrade. If you get stuck or need help at any point, just give us a shout and we'll be happy to help.
Also, just to help you along, yes, set the second HDD (new, bigger HDD)to slave.
ok i found this option menu how would you like to clone it .
full disk byte by byte or selective( by partion/drive,also do i change to ide cable to the new hard drive before i choose option 1? chimp does work ok if i have used splinter cell to softmod my box doesnt it.
only seem to be getting options to clone partitions and it give me a choise to clone c drive or e drive if i chosse c after its done will it give me the option to then copy e drive or will doing this mess the new hd up just noticed i have chimp 2.4 where can i get 2.6
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:53 am Post subject:
Ok, you would use the selection to clone the enitre disk and I did this byte by byte. This makes sure that you have the exact same data on each drive, but does take longer.
Also, the moment Chimp starts, then you disconnect the IDE from the DVD and stick it into your new HDD. Now, there's no reason why you can't clone partition by partition. Your rnew HDD is blank at the minute and if anything goes wrong, you can simply format and start again. So clone C: then E: This option should be used only if you cannot clone entire drive, fully or byte by byte.
Not to worry if you haven't got v2.6, v2.4 is the same version I used, and I'm still using. There's no real difference between the versions and 2.4 will serve your needs without any problem. Just sounds like you aren't selecting the right menu options.
ok im totally stuck just doesnt seem to be working for me,even if i choose to clone the c drive first it doesnt do anything wish there was a better tutorial cause im well confused as to why its not working
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:30 am Post subject:
Ok, I will set about typing a step by step tutorial for Chimp. In the meantime, when you select "clone drive" what happens?
ok this is what is happening,
i switch on the xbox in evo dash i select chimp soon as the select option screen comes up i swap the ide cable from back of original hd and put it in the new hd,then i select number 1 on the option list scan physical ide devices,asks me to make sure i have connected all my device and option to choose yes or no, so i choose yes,then i get this white writin on a black background then after a bit it changes to a screen that have my new drive info on it from what i can make out,cause it have the model number and serial number of the new hard drive on that screen,at the bottom of the screen it says drive comforms to: device does not report version.is this a problem? then at botom it has just one option to exit that screen so i do,then the list of options comes up like,
1 scan physical ide drive
2clone from master to slave
3 lock slave drive
and so on,so i select option 2 clone from master to slave.
brings up a screen that says about to scan your ide device and option again to choose yes or no so i choose yes and that screen about my new hd comes up again so i choose exit as its the only option,then screen comes up that says choose yes will wipe out and reformat this disk/dev/null be warned so i choose yes from the yes no option,then a screen comes up that says,hd cloning from dev/hda to dev/null
how would you like to clone it
2 options
1 full disk byte by byte
2 selective by partition/drives
so i select number 1
brings up screen about monitoring the progress choose blind or periodially show so i choose blind option 1,then it brings up another screen saying partition to clone and its only giving me option 1 c-drive or option 2 e-drive so as this is the only options i seem to have i choose 1 then the device cloning screen comes u but about 2 secs later it goes back to list screen where i can chosse to scan drive or clone master to slave and so on so this is where im stuck and confused
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:12 pm Post subject:
notorious19 wrote:
ok this is what is happening,
i switch on the xbox in evo dash i select chimp soon as the select option screen comes up i swap the ide cable from back of original hd and put it in the new hd,
Woah, hold up. You take the IDE cable out of the DVD drive and put it into the new HDD, not the cable from the old HDD.
So you should have the IDE cable running into original HDD (set as master) and then into new HDD (set as slave). The DVD should not have an IDE cable plugged into it during this process, although the power to the DVD drive must remain in.
That would be why your drive isn't cloning, your not going from one disk to another, you're trying to clone the partitions on the same disk.
ohhhh i see lol ok well i have now done it the way u said im following your tutorial when i get option to clone the drive im still getting onlu options to clone 1 c or 2 e so i have started cloneing c at the moment just hope that when thats done its gonna let me also copy e without wiping off c?
ok i went through the process of cloning the c partition then it went back to the menu with the scan ide drives and clone from master to slave and so on so how would i now copy the e partion,i dont understand why i cant just copy the whole drive like it says in ur tut
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