Reddit reviews 24" 40-Pin 80-Wire Ultra ATA 2-Drive Ribbon Cable, Manhattan 332781

These two have been confirmed to work by a few people with no issues that I've heard of: Ebay or Amazon

Personally, I use the ebay one. $40 is waaay too much for an adapter. Oh and here's a good 80 pin cable to go with it.

This is the IDE to SATA adapter that is recommended on this sub: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EOJNGC2

You can't use the original grey IDE cable that comes in the stock xbox if you upgrade to a modern SATA drive with the above adapter. You'll need to pick up an 80 wire one. I use this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003IDF0JC

Personally, I have a 2TB drive (WD20EZRZ) in mine - plenty of space for everything.

Here's the video on how to partition it on the xbox: https://youtu.be/6wsGjDOOAP0

That's a good chunk of the info for upgrading the hard drive. I use a modchip so that I can run it unlocked and don't have to worry about anything.

Install the modchip and HDD, then boot up the latest Hexen disc. It should be able to build your new drive for you. Then you configure your bios to point to the xbe that you want to boot into and then re-flash it to the modchip.

You should then boot to that xbe when you reboot the xbox.

Check out XBMC-Emustation also. Takes time to get it fully setup, but it's the best dash (in my opinion)!

...and no - installing an SSD will not do anything positive for you.

Yea, for a SATA drive to work in the Xbox you need two things: a converter and an 80wire cable.

This is what most of us use as it is quick and reliable.

And this is the cable I get.

The important part is really the adapter as the wrong adapter will cause booting issues and add time to the boot.

First thing's first, confirm that it's not a 1.6 Xbox and if it isn't, remove the clock capacitor immediately. If you don't do this, the Xbox will be destroyed, so there won't even be any point in doing anything further.

To answer your question, you can just swap out the HDD and then boot the console with a HeXEn 2017 disc in the drive and it will setup the HDD. If you're using a SATA HDD (which you should), you'll need an IDE to SATA adapter and you'll need to replace the Xbox's IDE cable with an 80-wire IDE cable.

Also, instead of playing with those discs, install all of your games to the HDD and play them from there. These old DVD drives are failing, so you should use them as little as possible.

I've used this one on both of my Xboxes and it works fine.

Halo=3.4GB, Halo 2=4.4GB, GTA San An=2.9GB, DJFFNY=2.8GB, SW KOTOR=3.7GB, Battle for Bikini Bottom=1.7GB. I'd say average is maybe 2 to 3.5GB. All these sizes I listed are in xbe format, ftp'd to hdd.

I put a 2TB in mine, and I can now see it was overkilll for what I wanted. I have a few more modded xbox's I'm gonna upgrade soon, and planned on going with 500GB, but the 1TB is only a few bucks more, so I'm gonna do that.

I used these parts...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013QFRS2S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EOJNGC2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003IDF0JC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The adapter comes with a molex splitter, so you dont need to buy one if you go that route. I've read that the HDE adapter also works, but is 50/50 on if you get a working one, so that's the only reason I went with Startech. I'm very happy with that 80 wire cable, also. Before ordering, I read countless reviews of other cables being crap, and not being a tight connection, or even having a connector that works. This one is awesome, its a little snug, and hard to bend, but I eventually got it in there and look semi professional. The 3 connectors are spaced a little weird for xbox, so you can only use it one way, and just barely have enough spacing between the hdd cradle and dvd drive. The cable is very firm, I was worried it was going to be low quality, but its nice.

Here is an outdated upgraded hdd list to browse through... http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=list

Next time, I'm gonna try the WD10EZEX. I've read it works fine.

I have the following games installed and am only using 94.2GB.

GB-569, GBA-1140, GBC-564, N64-212, GENESIS-810, NES-820, SNES-787, XBOX-27, PSX-5.

Since this is my main xbox, I'm gonna eventually load it down with as many original xbox titles as I can find. After that, I've read that CoinOps and Final Burn are worth checking out, so thats also on the list. Once I find out the games I like, I'm gonna make the 1TB purely for games I enjoy, nothing extra. I do love the Favorites tab in Rocky's Emustation, makes finding a game you love out of thousands very easy.

I haven't found out how to get the PSX games to show up in emustation yet, but I know it has to do with the bin/cue area. The bin's are large files, but the cues are only 1kb. I think I saw Rocky post somewhere saying you have to load from cue's, but I'm not sure how.

If you are into N64 at all, check out EarthWormJames' 212 pack. Very sweet. I can link you in pm if needed.

To upgrade the softmod, use this Quick Upgrade from Rocky5's Softmodding Tool. You just FTP it to your the root of the E partition and run the default.xbe file. If you haven't nulled your EEPROM, you need to do that as well so if the HDD dies, you can easily replace it. You can run Rocky5's Softmodding Tool Extras Disc from your HDD or use ConfigMagic to do that.

Also, if you have a SATA HDD dock or some kind of SATA to USB adapter, nulling the EEPROM would allow you to easily build an upgrade HDD on your PC for the Xbox. You may even be able to hook the HDD directly into another slot in your computer, but I can't remember. I want to say yes on that though. Anyway, you'd use XboxHDM2USB beta 3 to do that.

OR, you can use Chimp 261812 to clone your HDD to a larger one. You will need a molex splitter, IDE to SATA adapter; this one is recommended a lot but others work too. And you will need a 40-pin 80 wire IDE cable; 24 inches is recommended. You'll boot you Xbox as normal, load Chimp, and it will tell you when to hot swap the DVD drive with your HDD you're upgrading to. It's pretty straightforward.

As for the DVD drive, they are interchangeable between Xbox consoles and are not locked to the motherboard. I don't know much about those, but you can try cleaning the laser or adjusting it doing a laser pot tweak. I think that's what it's called. Someone more knowledgeable than me can chime in on that.

And lastly, since it's pretty much obligatory here, remove the clock capacitor in your Xbox if it hasn't been removed and your Xbox isn't a revision 1.6 or 1.6/b.

24" 40-Pin 80-Wire Ultra ATA 2-Drive Ribbon Cable, Manhattan 332781 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003IDF0JC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_6ipYCb2XZTCHP

This is what I ordered, it just arived today.

24 inch ide cable

try using an 80 wire ide cable like this one

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003IDF0JC?psc=1&ref=yo_pop_mb_yo_pop_mb_pd_t2

You can use a program called Chimp to clone the drive. I've never done it, so I don't know exactly what to do, but there is a link in the sidebar to all of the tutorials.

Another way to do it is with XboxHDM. After zeroing your HDD key (if you haven't done that already), FTP the EEPROM file, and the C and E partitions to your PC and put them in the right folder for XboxHDM. Then you can build a Linux ISO to burn to a CD or put onto another bootable media. You can slap a drive into a PC and boot into that special Linux to create an HDD locked to your Xbox.

EDIT: Since you're using a SATA drive, you'll want this IDE to SATA converter. The Xbox is finicky for some reason with converters, but this one is recommended by the tutorial guide.

You'll also need an 24 inch 80 conductor IDE cable. The one in the original Xbox is only a 40 conductor cable, which apparently causes issues/slower speeds with SATA drives.

Thanks for the reply JCRocky5

To clone the drive, no I wasn't using an 80 wire IDE cable. I was trying to use one first. But that's another problem altogether. The XBox won't boot if I replace the stock cable with it. I understand it might be the root of my problem altogether.

The 80 wire IDE cable is this one

https://www.amazon.com/40-Pin-80-Wire-2-Drive-Ribbon-Manhattan/dp/B003IDF0JC/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1550262559&sr=8-6&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=80+wire+ide+cable&dpPl=1&dpID=31dIUoOcXvL&ref=plSrch

Chimp does tell me that I have a master and a slave drive plugged in on the TSOP/Chipped menu path

Would these all work in upgrading the HDD?

[HDD on Amazon] (https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-500GB-Drive-WD5000AAKX-60U6AA0/dp/B00Y3DSLD8/ref=asc_df_B00Y3DSLD8/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309707619534&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3327621541450996635&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9060058&hvtargid=pla-569717086723&psc=1)

40pin 80wire ribbon cable

IDE-SATA Adapter


Molex Y splitter