Xbox Softmod discussion

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:20 pm **Post subject:**

spudthedestroyer wrote:

PC_Arcade wrote:

YOU NEED A CLEAN C BACKUP RESTORE THAT.

did someone just say something? :lol:

Yeah, I was worried it was going to go beyond redemption :lol:

nanjo · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:54 pm **Post subject:**

I hv restored a clean C (d/l from gmail), Xbox is now only contains the files and folders that just d/l.

when boot up , it went staright to xbox dash, still wont load MA, burnout 3 , return to castle wofrnstein, but load Deusex invisible war , after few more attemps, it's now displaying : contact support again. I think the Xbox had its time

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:05 pm **Post subject:**

That's weird, sounds to me like your DVD drive is fucked, Still, at least now you can take it back and plead ignorance :lol:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:16 pm **Post subject:**

not even playing original games, yeah has to be the drive then...
damn microsoft :outsider:

Wonder if the xbox2 will be less shoddy... then again part of the reason teh xbox is so great is its shoddiness :lol:

nanjo · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:33 am **Post subject:**

PC_Arcade wrote:

That's weird, sounds to me like your DVD drive is fucked, Still, at least now you can take it back and plead ignorance :lol:

i thought so as well, the philips DVD drive sound dodgy in the past when I try to load some discs in( the one it didn't like).

I think i'll send it back to M$ give it a try.
I had a controller replaced FOC a couple of weeks by them( fractured cable) :mrgreen:

guys

what's the story about PCA on dial up? :wink:

have they cracked the Xbox2 yet??

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2005 5:54 pm **Post subject:**

erm, have they released the xbox2 yet? I would have though i heard about it if they had.

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:04 pm **Post subject:**

Naah, Next month apparently

nanjo · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:02 pm **Post subject:**

@PCA: i tried load linux in again ,but its still took a long time to load up MXM,or some times wont load , if I can FTP, I know I can restored the clean C drive, but what about a 'clean' E drive? should it cotains ltools folder? and other misc.. files??

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:04 pm **Post subject:**

no, e should contain only the tdata and udata folders

nanjo · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:15 pm **Post subject:**

I can delete all these folders in the E drive: BiosLD, CACHE ,Dashboard ltools,(the ltools folder cotains eeprom.bin and HD password etc..)

just keep:TDATA ,UDATA

am I correct?

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:18 pm **Post subject:**

forgot one, you don't need to delete cache

nanjo · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:28 pm **Post subject:**

thx,
I tried load the original game in again this afternoon, some load some wont, tried again this evening, halo2 and MA load, I deceided hv another go, (boys keep nagging me being bored), load MA save and exe without any problem, but when I reboot , same damm Contact support screen again. reboot few more time ,it can now boot to MXM( slowly)

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:58 pm **Post subject:**

That's strange, If it's still under warranty, i'd clean it up and swap it over, too much messing around IMHO

nanjo · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:14 pm **Post subject:**

@PCA: How many drives/folders should be in the "Virgin" xbox? (I have folders C, D, E and etc..)

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:57 pm **Post subject:**

You will only have the same drives as a "virgin box", you will have C,E, X,Y,Z IIRC (not sure about x,y,z but as you can't change them it shouldn't matter)

I'd delete the mechassault save though

nanjo · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:32 pm **Post subject:**

all files hv restored last night , all saved games deleted, there ara a save for 'live update' & ' audio' shall I delete those as well?

I noticed there are quite a few drives in the Xbox when I FTP,i think there is a D drive & F drive (cant FTP now) will it create more drives when I did the modding ?

they are coming to pickup the xbox within 5 days, just want to make sure everything in order b4 it goes back :wink:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:41 pm **Post subject:**

nope, D is dvdrom and i think f is another resource, but you can have a usable f drive when you format.

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:41 pm **Post subject:**

No, that's fine as it is

the d: drive is your dvd rom and the F: drive depends on the xbox

nanjo · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:04 pm **Post subject:**

cheers mates, report back in few days time. :beerchug:

nanjo · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:24 pm **Post subject:**

Hi all, got my xbox back today, they've replaced:
DVD drive-still a philips drive
Hard disc
Mobo'

thx again for everyone helping me to restored the xbox.

@PCA : before FTP the softmod pack over, as Spud had said, the XBMC is quite out of date, can you suggest a new one to replace it? there are many of them around the net, but which one? or are you going to do a new pack :wink:

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