Re: Xbox (classic) HDD upgrade

[Andy Powell <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12 Jan 2009, at 14:07, Marcus Warrington wrote:

> This is the link I used.. its says Chimp2.6 but when unzipped it
> says 2.4 ? Anway.. it worked for me.
>
> http://xguides.xbox-scene.com/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Chimps+hd+tool
>
> Marcus
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> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Xbox (classic) HDD upgrade
>
> On 12 Jan 2009, at 10:49, Marcus Warrington wrote:
>
> > I did this myself over the Christmas period. Replaced the 8Gig
hard
> > drive in the living room XBox (softmodded) with a 60gig 2.5"
laptop
> > harddrive. The reason for using a laptop drive was that I have a
few
> > lying around spare, and also it should generate less heat which
> > means the fan won't have to work as hard. Used a little program
> > called "chimp2.6" which you simply ftp onto the Xbox
before you
> > start. Didn't use a PC just a "Y" splitter to power
both hard drives
> > and the DVD drive at the same time, and hot swapped the DVD IDE
> > cable to the new hard drive after booting. All in all took about
> > 10mins and I will be doing my other 3 XBoxes when I get a spare
half
> > hour or so.
> >
> > Marcus
>

Managed to get chimp onto the xbox and up and running. Is chimp
supposed to update
the state of the wipe/copy? There seems to be disk activity for a
while then it all goes quiet but
there's no status at all.



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