X-Box Drive in a PC?

[KojiroTakenashi]

I know it's been done before, and that it's worked just fine in a PC...

So, I'm wondering if perhaps some time Cxbx will have an option to load data from an X-Box game disc itself, from the drive inside a PC?

[Foxfyre]

now that would be interesting....putting an xbox drive in a pc...

[KojiroTakenashi]

Same cabling and everything. I remember about a year or two back some hardware review guys put the hard drive and DVD drive in a PC. There was something off about the hard drive (don't remember what it was right now...) but the DVD drive worked just fine...

[EddyB43]

The reason you can't simply dump an XBox disc in a PC is because it uses a proprietary file system. If someone developed a disc "driver" or application that could force your DVD drive to understand it, ripping a disc in your PC would be trivial.

The XBox HD also runs a modified file system, known as FAT32X. If you repartitioned the drive however, it would work just fine in a PC - naturally without any of the data that it had while in the XBox.

[TirEoghainAbu]

xbox dvd drive uses a different power connecter to a pc dvd drive, it isnt a molex connecter, there may be converters but i have not seen one.

Hard drive can be changed ok, although, i dont think there is a FATX driver for windows, AFAIK, there is a fully functioning fatx driver for linux, and once unlocked, the filesystem can be read without any problem.

[shadow_tj]

i got a xbox version 1,1
the dvd drive has yust a normal molux connection.
my drive was broken so i`m now working with a extern dvd drive.

mmm sometimes it isnt the best way... to mod a xbox..
was in a half year i broken the drive

[proger]

Yes, the xbox dvd drive does have a diffrent power cable, BUT if you sat your xbox beside your pc, you could run the power cable to the xbox dvd drive.
My old dvd players "power block's' Output cable to its dvd drive happens to be the same cable.... and i think the same voltage.... :nod:

[TirEoghainAbu]

I think another problem is that, when people have tired this, they couldn't get a standard PC BIOS to recognise the drive.

I think I am going to try your idea and use xbox to provide power and use PC IDE cable. I will report back if I get a chance to do it, I am not all that hopeful though.

[ChaosCode]

Im thinking the dvd player is just a normal dvd player and the way its being used is differnt. I meen think about it, it plays dvd movies so it has to work like a normal dvd player. maybe its more then a normal dvd player or maybe the drivers are just differnt. I do know M$ isn't going to make something like this easy or everyone would be doing it :oP

[TirEoghainAbu]

AFAIK, the way it works is this, but don't quote me on it.

The drive's firmware wont allow it to interface with a standard PC BIOS, it has to be an xbox BIOS with the extra security checks and locks that that contains, so I think just putting the drive into a PC won't work.

The reason an xbox disc cannot be read in a PC is because when you put the disc into your standard DVD drive, your DVD drive reads TOC layer 1, which is the standard. Layer 1 contains a short DVD video promoting the XBOX. When you put this same disc in an xbox drive however, the xbox checks TOC layer 2, where the REAL TOC is located, AFAIK, no standard PC DVD-ROM will do this, as, it just isnt needed.

[PentiumPro]

We really need some truthful and well-documented articles on these topics.

[KojiroTakenashi]

So...who's up for voiding their warranty? :evil:

[ChaosCode]

We really need some truthful and well-documented articles on these topics.


yup, got any?