welcome to The Grok Shop. in this video I'm going to show how to softmod your
xbox using a sort of simplified however technique I'll show you what I mean here
in a minute but first off you want to go into your settings on your stock
original Xbox and pull up the kernel and - versions and kernel should be it could
be variable depending on what Rev of machine you have and then for the - it
should be 59 60 or higher now we're going to want to do is use the hotspot
technique which is you need a IDE port on your motherboard and a spare IDE
cable and pretty much all we're going to do is pull this yellow power and control
plug off the DVD player and boot the Machine up with the hard drive still
connected to the Xbox and this will force us to get an error 12 and err 12
is one of the best errors for getting the hard drive to unlock which allows
you to transfer files back and forth
okay so once you have the air-12 and you want to pull the IDE cable from the Xbox
hard drive and then plug the IDE into your motherboard make sure you have the
master port of the IDE cable if it has multiple ports and you need to go back
to your PC and go into computer management and from here Disk Management
and you can right click on Disk Management and tell it to rescan the
disks rescan disks and after that should see it show up as an unknown offline
disk because it's incompatible filesystem type next you want to head
over to the ISO zone and find Explorer 360 beta 6 and download that I'll put a
link to that below all right if you don't have one yet I'll go ahead and
create a original Xbox tools folder and put this tool Explorer 360 in there
basically this will let you communicate with the Xbox fat X filesystem which
otherwise windows can't communicate with you can then back at the ISO zone you
want to get in der 3.1 download that put that in the tools folder as well so in
der is basically a customizable exploit allowing you to configure an install
that augments right on top of your backed up Xbox files the docs that come
with the Enduro actually pretty decent and you know everything's pretty mature
at this point in 2018 but definitely check those out if you have any any
doubts ok so now I'm with the show you want to
open up Explorer 360 go to drive open and hard drive arm in card and it should
find the partitions on your Xbox hard drive there
and the main ones we're going to be concerned with our partitions three and
four partition three maps to letter C and partition four maps to letter E in
xbox drive letter parlance next up go ahead and create a backup folder and
we're basically gonna copy everything from the C and E Drive over to this
backup area and create another folder in parallel called deploy where we'll make
a copy of everything and then run indoor on top of that you'll see here in a
minute what I mean so inside the backup folder you're gonna want to make a C and
E folder ok then open up the C folder which I didn't show there but open it up
and select everything in partition three and Explorer 360 and drag and drop into
the see folder and let it run
and then likewise for the evil door open that up select everything on there
partition four and drag and drop let it run do a few quick sanity checks and
make sure everything's there it didn't bomb out on you or something
explore our 360 is not known to be very stable okay next you want to want to
copy the C and E folders and then paste them into the deployed folder ok next
want to fire up the Ender 3.1 installer and we're gonna go through and select
the components we want I'm actually going to keep it relatively simple if
you recall earlier you got your kernel version from the Xbox - mine was 50 101
so you definitely want to check that and you can check you ddae if you want it's
a kind of a backdoor recovery tool that you probably won't ever need anyway but
nice to have it there so yeah take a note of the documentation the target
folder is going to be the folder above a CNE deploy folder so for us it'll just
be the deploy folder we created earlier and from there it went those folders
accordingly and then we'll use the explore 360 tool to basically copy those
back to the Xbox
uh-uh yeah here I'll take a quick look at the differences between the deploy
and backup folders using one of my favorite tools beyond compare and you
can see it does does add quite a few folders and files there okay next what
we're gonna do is head back to explore 360 and clean out the partition three
and four basically select partition three select everything inside
right-click and go to delete and we'll be doing the same thing for a partition
for
okay next we'll head back to the deploy C folder select everything in there drag
and drop to partition three okay not shown here I'm going to select
everything in the a folder under deploy and drag and drop that to partition four
okay meanwhile back at the Xbox reboot on
so yeah strangely if you've ever used ender ender 300 came pre-canned with
unleash this ones freak end with evolution X what doesn't really matter
of course can just change it up I can see right here I'm not hooked up to the
network yet we'll do that later I used auto installer deluxe 4.5 3 and
hexan 2017 DVDs I'll put links to those below as my tool disc there's other ones
out there I'm here I'm going to go ahead and boot into auto installer deluxe DVD
menu and the first thing we want to do is make our way down to config magic and
get a backup of the EEPROM which will be necessary to be able to lock and unlock
the disk later if you change discs or whatnot of course if you T saw it flash
you don't need that but not sure what where y'all will be going from here so
go ahead and go to create backup files I'll show where those files end up here
in a minute so you can back them up onto your PC hard drive or whatever
now's a good time to go ahead and hook up the network I do so here go ahead and
get a local IP address for me it's gonna be one ninety two dot one sixty eight
dot one dot one forty one make sure that the FTP server is enabled says yes
password defaults are always xbox yes you change that manually I'm gonna use
FileZilla for my FTP tool you can choose to use whatever you want I'll put a link
to FileZilla below it's pretty pretty nice FTP tool so here you can see I try
to connect and fail because I forgot to put the username password just put Xbox
Xbox there your IP address it hook right up and
here you can see the drive letters on top the way it works is what you have
highlighted in the top window shown contents are shown below so there you
can see in the root of the e the e EEPROM files I just downloaded those
ends up wherever you have selected on the left which for me was C colon temp
and confirm that they're there and then you want to probably make a folder and
your backup call it a EEPROM and just copy them over there or of course you
could navigate directly there and FileZilla in there with that one next
I'm going to go ahead and fire up the hex and DVD and the Xbox and select
Install dashboards then I want to select switch to unleash X and then we'll just
have to reboot
so I decided to check out the game saves that were there and lo and behold I
didn't have any of my game safe so ended up going back to FileZilla here and
going to the good old backup folder which we made earlier and copying the
contents of the new data and T data folders to the corresponding folders on
the Xbox and this should remedy that situation
that's looking mo better
so also in hexan I recommend install applications to e mainly because this
will install the DVD to Xbox tool which will allow you to copy your DVD games to
your hard drive and basically it's like having a backup of your game which boots
much faster than the DVD does anyway by the way the F partition I believe is for
larger hard drive so if you replace your hard drive you may be able to use that F
partition but anyway in the DVD to Xbox tool I'll show how that works here by
essentially ripping one of my games just gonna do halo here show how it works the
dumb directory is basically the destination directory I would put it in
E : game / halo if I knew what I was doing the first time but it defaults to
just a : so that's what I selected and you'll see that great a little bit of a
problem because I can't find it when you go to load the games so not a great
choice for the default whoever designed this package but again free stuff you
know what are you gonna do you can always edit the config file and unleash
or whatever tool you're using this is this would be the DVD to Xbox config but
here I'm doing the unleash one because it does affect the dashboard as well and
tell it where to find the games so you can do it by manually editing the file
or you can just go into FileZilla and move the game from the root into e :
games which is what I ended up doing by the way if you don't have a IDE DVD ROM
on your PC it's very difficult to use the Xbox HD em to burn a disc the boot
off of so that's why I ended up using this method I hope you like it's a
little more modern a little easier than some of the other videos I saw
and that's the best way to do the softmod I believe on the original Xbox
thanks for watching