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Lacking any expensive or specialty equipment the procedure was intense. Fully boot up an XBox. Very carefully remove the IDE cable from the internal Hard Driv
by themafia 1y ago
Lacking any expensive or specialty equipment the procedure was intense.
Fully boot up an XBox. Very carefully remove the IDE cable from the internal Hard Drive.
Start booting a PC. Press the "Pause" key on the keyboard right before BIOS starts it's POST. Very carefully connect the IDE cable from the PC to the XBox Hard Drive. Press any key to resume boot.
Now you can boot the XBMC installer and copy it over to the XBox Hard Drive. Shut everything down. Appropriately connect the Hard Drive. Power back up. You now have a modded XBox.
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