noob question, is jtag req. for hdd upgrade 250gig?

[wang]

hi,

just wondering as i've been searching for days, and after sifting through all the clutter, i've read that you can and cannot upgrade your harddrive without the jtag hack. i wanted to get a 250gig WD scorpio bevt drive.

is this true? i thought you could just get the hdss.bin via hddhackr, setup the new drive, and then move all the files over. i have a brand new jasper and am unable to jtag it. i read something about the harddrive password only being accessible through xbr and freeboot. i copied all the data off my original hdd with xplorer360 successfully, but was unsure if setting the drive up with hddhackr and copying the files back will work.

thanks

[Arakon]

then you didn't read very closely. you can build official sizes with hddhackr and a WD. You can not use any other drive or size without the jtag hack.
I don't know where you got the idea with the password, the hdds are not passworded in any way.

[wang]

ok, well thank you for clarifying. i was reading all this crap about it, and using some program called a-ff repair station to get the password from the hdd, but it cost $70, and some other program "atapwd".

but maybe that was to write files to an original xbox hdd. maybe i got confused with writing to original hdd's as i read they are locked. or did i misread that as well? can you write to original hdd's?

[iLLNESS]

ok, well thank you for clarifying. i was reading all this crap about it, and using some program called a-ff repair station to get the password from the hdd, but it cost $70, and some other program "atapwd".

but maybe that was to write files to an original xbox hdd. maybe i got confused with writing to original hdd's as i read they are locked. or did i misread that as well? can you write to original hdd's?

that was for original xbox. and even then, you dont need those apps.
atapwd was only used to unlock a xbox drive if you knew the key. the other app, i've never used.
if u locked ur new drive with configmagic it had a backdoor password as well.

but anyways, this is off topic.

with xbr/freeboot you can just hook any sata hdd up (2.5") and it will be detected.

if you want the hdd to work in non xbr/freeboot xboxs, you need to flash the hdss.bin to your drive.