Chimp 2.6 Xbox Hdd Clone Tool

21-04-2021
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Hi all,

With your Xbox on and idle in the dashboard, unplug the IDE ribbon cable from the DVD drive (!) and plug it into the new hard disk. Select option 1 and scroll down to confirm both drives are detected. Select option 2 to clone your existing files over to the new drive. The chimp xbox hard drive cloning software is developing at a frantic pace. New versions of the software should be released several times a quarter and even several times a month. Update for chimp xbox hard drive cloning software. There are several reasons for this dynamic.

HddAt the moment, I have an 80GB HDD in my xbox and want to upgrade it. I'm going SATA so I've already purchased a IDE to SATA adapter and have an 80 pin IDE cable.
I've downloaded and burnt Slayers 3.3 and actually installed a dash to the new drive but I want my old dashboard and layout, roms and emulators etc. Would I be better just moving the folders from my old HDD to my new one? Do I need to lock/unlock any of my drives? (I don't actually know what this is for)

Chimp 2.6 Xbox Hdd Clone Tool Installer

This xbox was setup a good 12 years ago so my knowledge is very limited and someone from an xbox forum actually helped me set it up!

Chimp 2.6 Xbox Hdd Clone Tool Pc


2.6I assume I don't need to mess about with my mod chips BIOS? It boots up and the xbox logo in blue which is a little odd?
Thank for any advice given

Having used the Chimp-Tools lately to clone an Xbox-Harddisk to replace it with a bigger sized disk, I put together all possible errors that I came across while trying solve my issue:

Unlock Xbox Hdd

Clone
  • Ensure you use the latest Chimp build: https://github.com/Rocky5/Chimp261812
  • Verify to use the path Chimp expects:
    E:applicationschimp
    E:applicationschimp loader
    E:appschimp
    E:appschimp loader
    E:chimp
    E:chimp loader
  • Use standard RGB cable and not the Component or any other 3rd party video cable
  • Disable the widescreen option in your Dashboard and use normal aspect ratio
  • Disable 480p, 720p or 1080i options
  • Linux users: Use a Windows machine to FTP transfer your files over to the Xbox; for some reasons the permissions attributes don’t work with Chimp (this was for example the issue I experienced and with Windows it worked without any problem)

More to come….