Original Xbox (Pre-owned) for £19.99

Belles

Got one in York today - had to check if he had any 'ready' but sounded like there were a few that would be available soon!!

Very happy!!!:beer:

sco0ter

My local game had them at £29.99 as bundles with 2 games and when asked how much for the console only by a woman they said they wouldnt split them.. She decided to take one and no matter what the salesperson tried it continually came up at £19.99 and wouldnt accept the bundle deal. When he tried to put it through seperately it came up as £21.97 for the console and 2 games... The woman was well pleased...

blinky

None at Washington

theronkinator

You also need an action replay to mod it. Or you can make or buy a USB to Xbox adaptor. I made an adaptor, I have action replay, but not all memory cards can accept the softmod files so keep that in mind. I found the easiest way was the usb memory stick and adaptor. I've modded two Xbox's in the past week, both with 200GB HDD's.

jig

which HDD works with these? What are the best deals out there?

smartsuit

Just rung Game in Cardiff Queen st, Reserved one over the phone and a mate is in Cardiff as we speak on his way to collect. No doubt I will annoy hell out of the missus tonight while I install media player onto it!

theronkinator

Most IDE's I guess. I've got a 200GB IDE Hitachi in mine, the other I did for my friend yesterday has a 200GB IDE Western Digital drive. Both ate 7200rpm with 8mb cache.
Look at this list:
http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=statistics

Click show all to see every model.

scanner_2

theronkinator wrote: »

Most IDE's I guess. I've got a 200GB IDE Hitachi in mine, the other I did for my friend yesterday has a 200GB IDE Western Digital drive. .

Theronkinator, which guide did you follow to install the new hardisk in xbox?

Can you forward me link on how to install new HD?

Thanks

drezsa

Just got one of these, helpful staff on the phone, but the guy who served me seemed non plussed and sought out the dirtiest scabby one he could find. No RCD in the power lead, DVD IR dongle, but no Remote. Asked him to test it as this wasn't the most local store and he said there was no point already been done.

theronkinator

scanner wrote: »

Theronkinator, which guide did you follow to install the new hardisk in xbox?

Can you forward me link on how to install new HD?

Thanks

Link to all the software you need is at the bottom, get the SID 5.01 files)
Guide with pictures at the bottom, so read this whole post first, guide is for SID 4.0, but its almost the same, read my instructions for SID 5.01.


Step by step what I did. It looks complicated but its easy

1) Use Action replay, put the saves on the xbox, boot your game.
2) Load linux from the softmod menu, choose back-up, then backup your eeprom.
3) FTP into your xbox(look in settings of the softmod menu for ip(i set mine to DCHP easier to do), then copy of the eeprom(located in E:/UDATA/2xxxxxxx/000000000000/backup/ then copy the eeprom.bin onto yor PC)
4) You can copy UDATA and TDATA aswell if you want to keep your saves.
5) Set up a Xbox HDM disk(really easy to do).
6) Boot from the disk(cd) with the new HDD plugged(unplug existing, so you don't wipe it by mistake) into your computer.
7) Choose option 1, then on the next step type 'XBOXHD' (without quotes), keep typing 'YES' until it says its done.
8) restart your PC when prompted, then boot to option 3(lock/unlock HD with linux)
9) type 'lockhd -a'
10) Shutdown your PC.
11) Swap the Xbox HDD's over.

Now you have a new HDD with the original files, now to softmod it,
1)boot from your game(saved files are still on your xbox if you used your existing UDATA and TDATA).
2) backup the MS dashboard, then just choose install softmod,
3) choose single boot, and softmod(choose HD if you want it in high definition(you can change it later anyways).
4) Choose the unleashX dashboard(much better than Evo X)
5) Once its done it restarts your xbox and your done.

I know there's alot of steps but it takes around 10 minutes to do(excluding burning the cd and whilst its installing to the HDD.

I will provide links to a guide:
How to open your xbox:
http://www.llamma.com/xbox/Repairs/crack_open_that_xbox.htm

New HDD.
For my steps 1-2:
Use This:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/558747

Steps: 3-4:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/403609

Steps: 5-11:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/548462
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Steps to softmod it 1-5:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/558747

All the software you need is available at this link:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/557450

Get SID5.01, its almost the same to install but has newer files, my instructions are for SID5.01.

Got any problems just PM me.