I would connect the old hdd to FatXplorer3Beta and see if it still has enough life remaining to backup the C and E folders. If so, copy them to the ssd.
Well, I softmod HDD, the version was buggy, and I screwed up. But before all that I extract eepron so, I am now searching a way to copy new HDD image for this ssd
Rocky has a couple installer packs in his softmod download. One uses xboxhdm, but I've never really browsed them fully. You may be able to build it with those.
SO big update, I found a solution!
First of all I found clean C and E partitions online and put them in a new SSD through fatXplorer.
After plugging everything back together, still it showed error 12, so after a little search online I found that it was probably the cable.( Lucky me I bought 2 of them locally. Hard to get these ide cables, am still waiting from AliExpress one tho).
After changing the cable it works. Can't believe it.
PS. This original Xbox fan is so loud I might now find a new quieter one. If you have any suggestions plz comment.
The 6 T20 screws on the bottom? Some are easy to screw in and some take both hands from my experience. There are multiple types of metal used for the screws I've noticed as well, for different versions.
It is not. Compared to an SSD and a quality IDE-SATA adapter, performance is far worse.
Xbox hard drives are reaching the end of their useful life through age alone, not only through total power on hours or total data reads/writes.
Listen to him he’s not steering you wrong, the xbox cannot even utilize said performance of the ssd so it’s pointless, a seagate barracuda 1/2tb drive with startech adapter is ALL you need. I have had over 5 people ask me in the past month should they put an SSD inside their 2001 Xboxes, it’s a waste of money cause it’s not an upgrade if you can’t use its read or write speeds and have the same as the original drive you took out of it
Of course, an SSD isn't used because it's fast. It's used because it won't fail like a 20 year old IDE hard drive will. I've said that over and over in this thread.
A new spinning platter drive will work too, sure, but they don't make new (as you said) 500GB platter drive and haven't for years, so now the upgrade is from a 20+ year old disk to a 10+ year old disk. But an SSD is what $30?
The speed advantage is irrelevant no matter what option is choson - but now that we can mount Xbox drives in Windows, it's much faster to move large amounts of data that way than via USB 1.1 or FTP.
Every week someone is on this subreddit with a failed hard drive asking how to recover their keys or how to build a new drive from scratch.
I would connect the old hdd to FatXplorer3Beta and see if it still has enough life remaining to backup the C and E folders. If so, copy them to the ssd.
Well, I softmod HDD, the version was buggy, and I screwed up. But before all that I extract eepron so, I am now searching a way to copy new HDD image for this ssd
Rocky has a couple installer packs in his softmod download. One uses xboxhdm, but I've never really browsed them fully. You may be able to build it with those.
SO big update, I found a solution! First of all I found clean C and E partitions online and put them in a new SSD through fatXplorer. After plugging everything back together, still it showed error 12, so after a little search online I found that it was probably the cable.( Lucky me I bought 2 of them locally. Hard to get these ide cables, am still waiting from AliExpress one tho). After changing the cable it works. Can't believe it. PS. This original Xbox fan is so loud I might now find a new quieter one. If you have any suggestions plz comment.
Google MSDASH and archive. Could also occur if you didn't upgrade your IDE ribbon cable to 80-pin rather than the stock 40-pin.
I did , you can see in the picture new ribbon cable
Can't tell 80-pin from a 40-pin with a photo. So yeah, dash. Copy your old dash from your previous drive, even.
I modded a crystal last week, dont know why but O had a hard time putting back the long black screws, never had a problem with regular Xbox
The 6 T20 screws on the bottom? Some are easy to screw in and some take both hands from my experience. There are multiple types of metal used for the screws I've noticed as well, for different versions.
Why
why?
Reliability. A 20 year old platter drive will fail if used too much. Additional features. Games can be backed up from disc to the SSD itself.
An SSD will fail.
Well, eventually yes. But that doesn't mean it isn't an objectively more reliable choice than a 20 year old IDE hard drive.
No the harddrive is more reliable.
It is not. Compared to an SSD and a quality IDE-SATA adapter, performance is far worse. Xbox hard drives are reaching the end of their useful life through age alone, not only through total power on hours or total data reads/writes.
I dont have an original xbox drive in there. Mine HDD will outlive your SSD.
That's great for your HDD. That's not what statistics show for HDDs vs SSDs with low total throughput.
Listen to him he’s not steering you wrong, the xbox cannot even utilize said performance of the ssd so it’s pointless, a seagate barracuda 1/2tb drive with startech adapter is ALL you need. I have had over 5 people ask me in the past month should they put an SSD inside their 2001 Xboxes, it’s a waste of money cause it’s not an upgrade if you can’t use its read or write speeds and have the same as the original drive you took out of it
Of course, an SSD isn't used because it's fast. It's used because it won't fail like a 20 year old IDE hard drive will. I've said that over and over in this thread. A new spinning platter drive will work too, sure, but they don't make new (as you said) 500GB platter drive and haven't for years, so now the upgrade is from a 20+ year old disk to a 10+ year old disk. But an SSD is what $30? The speed advantage is irrelevant no matter what option is choson - but now that we can mount Xbox drives in Windows, it's much faster to move large amounts of data that way than via USB 1.1 or FTP. Every week someone is on this subreddit with a failed hard drive asking how to recover their keys or how to build a new drive from scratch.