300gb on old XBox?

sterculelum

My friend managed to get someone who works for a software company (a friend of his) to somehow activate unused space on his XBox... It was always there, just needs to be activated... How is this possible? He now has like 300gb of space to burn games, dvds and anything else.

No chip involved. Is there any way to do this yourself?

monument

Sounds like bs.

sterculelum

I saw it... He has 50+ games on the harddrive, with 50gb free...

monument

Are you sure the console isn’t moded?

sterculelum

Pretty sure... I think he activated some switch, and there's loads of space just lying around to be used...

Fighting Irish

bull****

Giblet

He probably has a soft mod.

peterk19

Fighting Irish wrote:

bull****

gotta agree

sterculelum

Wait.. you think I'm lying or that my friend is?

peterk19

sterculelum wrote:

Wait.. you think I'm lying or that my friend is?

i know he is ive modded loads of xboxes and they come with 10gig hard drives not 300 so i know he is lying its been modded and had the standard hardrive replaced also the xbox file system (FatX) can not read over 250gig unless you repartition the drive into multiple partitions
Pete

Laguna

This is bull****, his console has been modded, Xbox consoles shipped with 10gb HDD, no switch in the world can change 10gb into 300gb.

CiDeRmAn

No one is calling you a liar but ay best you have been mislead, certainly some folk may be nervous of using the Mod word and may simpky talk of unlocking potential, but t all adds up to the same thing, someone opened the machine, installed a very large harddrive, installed a chip and even a switch to switch off so he doesn't get nailed when he goes onto XboxLive and so all his games work, I am told some titles won't run if they detect a mdchip active.

Anyway thats it, you have some people here giving you truthful advice about a console they literally know inside out, 8/10gb id the standard on an xbox, never in a million years would MS provide an easy fix so as you could circumvent the antipiracy lockouts,

Use your head man, use some logic.

GrumPy

CiDeRmAn wrote:

installed a chip and even a switch to switch off so he doesn't get nailed when he goes onto XboxLive and so all his games work, I am told some titles won't run if they detect a mdchip active.

switch or no switch, he would be banned from live as the hdd eeprom wouldn't match his original hdd (live takes a snapsot of the key on the drive, and the motherboard first time you sign up to live) so even if his mod is turned off, he will be banned straight away and get the old "modified xbox error" message on his dash

CiDeRmAn

There's a thing, I am pretty sure while the Live network can detect a non-standard hard drive, you won't get banned for it, rather the detection of the mod-chip, know a number of folks taking modded xboxs online with no ill effects.

Kenny_D

Irish GrumPy wrote:

switch or no switch, he would be banned from live as the hdd eeprom wouldn't match his original hdd (live takes a snapsot of the key on the drive, and the motherboard first time you sign up to live) so even if his mod is turned off, he will be banned straight away and get the old "modified xbox error" message on his dash

Not if he hadnt used Live before. If the first time you use live is with the bigger hard drive then you wont get caught. You do have to lock it first though through the dash

GrumPy

yah, i know, ive moded multiple xboxs.

sterculelum

Fair enough... maybe I'm wrong..

zAbbo

standard xbox hdd is a 10gb one(8gb usable).

you're mates leading you astray, you must be somewhat gullible.