Xbox harddrive compatible with/in PC?

[namek0]

i don't have much time so i'm going to tell you my situation in a nutshell.

i messed up bigtime by typing something wrong. i ftp'ed it my xbox and now it won't boot up past the "x" screen. i can go into xenium os just fine, but that's where it ends.

could i physically take the hd from the xbox and put it in my computer to rename a few files, are they compatible?

i would love to be able to ftp into the xbox, that would save me a billion troubles. i've got my evox bootable cd laying around somehwere but much, much, to my dismay i can't find it anywhere. any help would be ultra-appreciated. i'm on dialup btw, so i can't quickly get another boot cd

thanks

here is my setup if needed:
v1.4 mobo
120 gig wd hd
xenium os 1.1
dashboard is(was) xbmc with evox as backup

(i was about to throw on a couple more bios'es so this sort of thing could be avoided, awesome timing eh?)

[joepmeloen]

sorry cant help you but i know for sure that there are tons of info about this at xbox-scene about this,

[joepmeloen]

i have a quick read about it and it looks like that when your hdd is not locked you can hooke it up to your pc. but:i dont know for sure

[namek0]

thx for the replies btw

i never even thought about unlocking it, let me tear the xbox apart and give it a try. if it doesn't work, it's no biggee, just a few minutes wasted on something with awesome potential

*zoom*...

[Anomaly]

many people have run into the trouble you have. please read up in the forums. forget putting the hdd into your pc. make a new evox boot disk or get one of those installer disks.

oh, and broadband will enrich your life...

[namek0]

gotcha

and my little town only has dialup, eventually we'll get cable/dsl, that will be a fine day

[namek0]

haha, success!

i found my evox cd and it worked first try. i ftped some files and i was good to go, with a captial g.

who would have thought 1 character in an .xml file could be so deadly, that'll never happen again

i'm so happy, so very very happy

[Nogood5]

an evox bootdisk is nothing more than the evox dashboard. (about 1 meg) you don't need a slayers or firefuckers bootdisk for this (about 200 to 300 meg)

so for the next dialup guy with this problem....

edit: and for the few other misconceptions. you can't put your formatted xbox harddisk in your pc. it has another fat layout. fatx to be exact. this is another copy protection\hack precaution thing from ms.
therefor pc harddisk are not readable in the xbox and vice versa

a locked harddisk will let you on xbox live, that all it does. if you don't use xbox live. i would advise you to never lock your harddisk. as you need your original motherboard that locked your harddisk to unlock it again. if it is fried, you can't unlock your harddisk anymore and you can throw it away.
(there is a very hard work around for this...)

[Gamester17]

Originally Posted by (nogood5 @ july 16 2004,09:29)

you can't put your formatted xbox harddisk in your pc.

actually you can, there is an old third-party dos app to read fatx harddrives, locked harddrives have to be hot-swapped from xbox to pc.
(that was the only way for anyone to copy files to xbox harddrive before evox came along to the xbox-modding-scene for the first time)

[Nogood5]

right.. i forgot about that.
not really a thing you want to try out, if simply finding a bootdisk solves this problem as well.

sometimes progress is a good thing