Hard Drive Upgrades Tutorial
Why replace (or swap) the HDD?
More room for stuff. This procedure is not that hard, actually. Just buy a good, beefy HDD (less than
137 GB, though), follow the outline below.
Western Digital is a good brand, as well as Maxtor. Some say that the 7200-RPM drives are
too hot, while others say it doesn’t matter. Some even install their own cooling fan just to be
safe - we stick with 5400 rpms.
There is a lot involved with this procedure, but it is not too complicated. Again, in accordance
with this generalised guide, these steps are just an outline to the procedure.
Make sure you have BIOS that has what is known as the HDD swap feature. (X2
4976.02 is the latest)
Make sure you have the latest Evox dashboard installed on your xbox already.
Backup the original C: and E: drives onto your PC’s HDD. This will involve networking
to your PC, so make sure you know how to FTP.
Create an Evox boot disc with evox.ini set up to format the drive. Burn it onto a CD-
RW or a DVD-RW or whatever your xbox will accept.
Open up the console again (you should already know how to do this because you
should have already have a working modchip installed).
Unplug the original HDD and replace it with the new one.
Put the xbox back together.
Boot the disc you made. It will start Evox, and there will be a menu option to set up
the drive (if you have the correct settings in the evox.ini file). Format it.
Copy the C: and E: drives from your PC’s HDD back to your new HDD.
Take the disc out, boot the xbox again.
Keep the original HDD just in case, you can unlock it and bung it in your PC.
You’re done, the extra space is on F:
FTP Master class
What you need:
Modded Xbox - doesn’t matter which mod really.
CD burner (and discs that your Xbox can read)
PC with a network card
Network Cable (ideally Crossover)
FTP software
Evox dashboard downloaded (pref latest version)
NOTE ON CABLES - PATCH CABLE OR CROSSOVER CABLE WTF ?
There are 2 types of network cable and both have RJ45 connectors at both ends. (See the
socket on the back of your Xbox to understand what a RJ45 looks like)
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