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alexh · 07 December 2017, 12:37

It is very easy to add larger hard drives to a soft-modded box. But you will need an x86 PC with an IDE port on the motherboard (harder to find these days) to be able to unlock and lock the hard drive.

Remember if you are going to use a hard drive larger than 128GiB then you MUST change the default cluster size or you WILL regret it. It works fine upto 128GiB and then any writes above that will overwrite the rest. You can use XBPartioner to set the cluster size as you partition and format your new drive.

If you are OK at soldering why not modify the TSOP write pin so you can flash your TSOP with the HeXen disk? Then you can put on a BIOS which doesn't need locked drives and use the IDE->CF adapter.

But to be fair why not ditch the XBOX1 if you don't play XBOX1 games and replace it with a Raspberry PI3?

07 December 2017, 12:37	#6
alexh Thalion Webshrine Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oxford Posts: 14,354	It is very easy to add larger hard drives to a soft-modded box. But you will need an x86 PC with an IDE port on the motherboard (harder to find these days) to be able to unlock and lock the hard drive. Remember if you are going to use a hard drive larger than 128GiB then you MUST change the default cluster size or you WILL regret it. It works fine upto 128GiB and then any writes above that will overwrite the rest. You can use XBPartioner to set the cluster size as you partition and format your new drive. If you are OK at soldering why not modify the TSOP write pin so you can flash your TSOP with the HeXen disk? Then you can put on a BIOS which doesn't need locked drives and use the IDE->CF adapter. But to be fair why not ditch the XBOX1 if you don't play XBOX1 games and replace it with a Raspberry PI3? Last edited by alexh; 07 December 2017 at 12:46.