How to Hotswap

[coinjunk]

thanks for posting this

[slayer_f]

u have to hook ur xbox hdd up to the prime master ide cable to work u put the HBHDM cd in and u boot it up then u take the xbox hdd out of the xbox when it is on and u plug it in to
the PC IDE cable just swicth the IDE cable with the hdd and leave the xbox hdd pluged in to the power surplie then clike rebuild C drive do not lock the hdd if u dont have the eeprom.bin file on the cd atfer tha gets done put the xbox hdd back in to the xbox and it should work fanil

[outcast22]

OK i have questions. Ihave an extra pc that has a floppy drive, cd reader, and Windows 98 on it. I don't want to screw up my new pc. can i use this pc if i burn every file needed to disc and loaded on the old pc?

[airwebber]

Quote: Originally Posted by slayer_f u have to hook ur xbox hdd up to the prime master ide cable to work u put the HBHDM cd in and u boot it up then u take the xbox hdd out of the xbox when it is on and u plug it in to the PC IDE cable just swicth the IDE cable with the hdd and leave the xbox hdd pluged in to the power surplie then clike rebuild C drive do not lock the hdd if u dont have the eeprom.bin file on the cd atfer tha gets done put the xbox hdd back in to the xbox and it should work fanil

This worked perfect.

The only thing I did different, is after I swapped the IDE cable over I then booted xboxhdm and built the new C partition.

This was for a xbox that was modded, but the chip burned out about a year ago and was left broken this entire time. I was able to hotswap the HD (300 gig), then softmod it and install XBMC as the main dash.. I changed over to a softmod that uses only the F partition for most of the drive and still have the 70 games that where on the HD prior to the chip giving out..

This is the best way to go, I recommend this hotswap method..