Can an xbox hard drive..

**zeve** · 08-29-2003

Can an xbox hard drive replace a different xbox hard drive (in the xbox). Keep in mind both drives have all original out of box files on them. Can this be done with out modifications and simply plug and play type function?

**Holt88** · 08-29-2003

Nope won't work, you'll cause major problems.

**zeve** · 08-29-2003

Could you explain what type of problems? Why it wont work?

**Holt88** · 08-29-2003

Depends what you're putting in there. You could crash the whole thing or make it over heat or get you're killed just by opening it. There's a power supply with cans on it. It holds electricty and if you touch it you could die.

**Papke** · 08-29-2003

Death by Xbox!

But it seems to me you could avoid that by.......unplugging it.

**zeve** · 08-29-2003

You tottally misunderstood. Iam just asking, WILL it actually work after I dont die? Or will the xbox still error.

**Holt88** · 08-29-2003

Unplugged or not, the electricty is stored in those towers and someone touching them will get it all released into them. Yes, I believe it will cause an error.

**Chaotic** · 08-29-2003

Originally posted by zeve
You tottally misunderstood. Iam just asking, WILL it actually work after I dont die? Or will the xbox still error.

The HD will not work because the sectors ID #'s are coded to work with the xbox they are currently in. If you go to switch them you will have mismatched ID #'s.

It will not work.

**Duke** · 08-29-2003

Just not plug and play then right? There are ways to (ending that sentence there because stupid casper will probably ban me)

**Dyslexic Chaos** · 08-29-2003

Originally posted by Holt88
Unplugged or not, the electricty is stored in those towers and someone touching them will get it all released into them. Yes, I believe it will cause an error.

Yeah, um, those "Towers" are called Capacitors. And by the looks of the size of the Xbox, they can't be very large. One the size of your fist coluldn't kill you. It would HURT, but it wouldn't kill you, because it only holds a short BURST or electrivity, good for things like sub-woofers in stereos where you may need a quick burst of electricity, and that's usually where the BIG ones are. Trust me, I am in my fourth year of electronics. BTW, no, unless you do something illegal to your 'box, which, like duke, i wont mention, you cannot swap the hard drives. Well, at least you know now that the Xbox won't kill you... Uless it falls on you or something...

**zeve** · 08-29-2003

Ha, lifting up an xbox can kill you. That **** weighs alot lol. When you say ilegal, do you mean hardware wise or software wise.

**Dyslexic Chaos** · 08-29-2003

i'm not at liberty to say...

**Chaotic** · 08-29-2003

Originally posted by zeve
Ha, lifting up an xbox can kill you. That **** weighs alot lol. When you say ilegal, do you mean hardware wise or software wise.

Just know you can't do it.

**Casper** · 08-29-2003

Originally posted by zeve
Ha, lifting up an xbox can kill you. That **** weighs alot lol. When you say ilegal, do you mean hardware wise or software wise.

Either or.

Look, this isn't really the site to look for assistance in replacing parts for your Xbox. We stand by the rules that when you buy an xbox game there is a non-disclosure in the agreement saying you cannot dissect, modify or in any way reverse engineer any xbox licensed software or hardware, doing so voids your warranty. This site works very close with Microsoft and therefore sticks by what rules they have. So let's just please try and keep this on a legit topic or it will get closed like the other one.

Thanks.

**Reclaimer** · 08-29-2003

Originally posted by DukeBuckhorn
Just not plug and play then right? There are ways to (ending that sentence there because stupid casper will probably ban me)

He's not the only one eyeballing this thread!

Doing a good job avoiding the big no-no.

As per the topic, as I understand, you can't swap xbox drives yourself. I was reading somewhere that your componants have internal ID numbers and they all have to be correct or it won't work. If you have a legit problem with your xbox, then you need to have it serviced byMicrosoft.

**zeve** · 08-29-2003

**** THOSE ****ERS AT MICROSOFT.

Iam not paying for ****. Iam gonna rip this mother ****er apart. They want $100 bucks? Suck my nuts!!!!!

**Shadow20002** · 08-29-2003

Well, not really sure if is gonna work or not but what wrong with your Xbox now ? Something bad happened ?

**zeve** · 08-29-2003

I never modded my xbox at all and in the middle of playing evil dead it freezes. I try turing it on and it says it needs service and theres a 05 error message. I checked and that means my HD is unlocked. So Iam trying to fix this without any mods. If you guys would stop going off topic and maybe helping me that would be good.

**Chaotic** · 08-29-2003

Originally posted by zeve
I never modded my xbox at all and in the middle of playing evil dead it freezes. I try turing it on and it says it needs service and theres a 05 error message. I checked and that means my HD is unlocked. So Iam trying to fix this without any mods. If you guys would stop going off topic and maybe helping me that would be good.

As we have stated there is no way to fix this unless you send it into microsoft. They use a special hardware device that codes the Harddrive to work properly in your system. Sounds like your kernel is corrupted. Replacing it with another HD wont work. If you have already opened your xbox your pretty much SOL because that automaticaly voids the warranty. If you have run out of options go buy a new xbox for $179 .