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Old 03-12-2004, 08:11
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Screwed by Locking HD

Hi everyone.
Thought I'd revist a problem I had several months ago.
Threw in a HD to test things out (just a small 20g).
Worked ok and all (believe it's a WD).
I read some posts about locking the HD and all that stuff.
So I did so. (Using Config Magic)
BAM.
Something happened.
Couldn't boot the Xbox after that at all (flashing Red light). If memory serves I couldn't even boot it from an EVO cd which really blew me away.
Had to put in the original HD again.
I have since shelved that 20g HD, but it's bugging the hell outta me.
Has anyone else seen this? Anyway to fix this?
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Old 03-12-2004, 09:15
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Its gotta be something other than the HD. Since an Xbox boots from bios then to whatevers in the eject tray then to hdd it doesnt make sense for it to have a problem till it gets to the hdd booting. If you have a disc in your tray it would boot that first.

Unless it has a hard time booting your disc in the first place. It would then skip it and go directly to hdd and frag if its messed up.


Does your particular evox disc boot up 100% of the time?



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Old 03-12-2004, 13:07
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Yup

Yup.
100% of the time it does.
I'm gonna take another gander at it this weekend.
I'm a little more xbox savy now then I was back then so maybe I'll get the thing figured out.
I was just interested if anyone else had seen this...
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Old 03-12-2004, 16:14
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If you are using any newer bios, they can boot to a disk without the HDD plugged in and can boot to the HDD without the dvd-rom plugged in. The HDD being locked might be a problem for that specific drive, but shouldn't be a problem if you try to boot from a disk, unless that disk required cache files to be copied onto the HDD.
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Old 03-12-2004, 19:34
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Nope... really screwed

Nope.
It really is screwed.
If I have the HD disconnected it still boots flashing red.
It absoluely refuses to boot via and DVD I put in.
My next step would be to try putting that HD in a PC and repartitioning it or something to get it back to some kind of normal state... I may attempt that later.
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try this, as it might help. Remember to go step by step..

http://www.how2xbox.com/hd.htm
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