Re: Used HD in new Xbox

On Wednesday, Nov 27, 2002, at 13:46 Europe/Berlin, Krister Bergman 
wrote:
> I bought an xbox about a month ago and was surprised to find out that 
> the
> harddisk in didn's seem to be new. It has something written on it and 
> it
> seems to have a half removed failure label.
>
> Here's a link to two pictures of the disk: 
> http://www.milliways.st/xbox/
>
> This seems ok, running fine with Mandrake 9.0. A bit dissappointed 
> that it
> didn't have the 10Gb disk.
>
> Has anyone else found used disk in their xboxes?

I have a WD 8 GB drive here, which has a circular white sticker at the 
bottom right of the large sticker. On your drive, it's a black 
sticker...
I don't think your HD used. Walter, who developed the OpenXbox/BioXX 
mod, told me that he found hard disks with bad cluster list stickers in 
many Xboxes. He said that MS probably uses hard disks that don't pass 
the quality check in order to be sold as retail hard disks, because 
they have some bad clusters. These bad clusters get remapped anyway and 
are not even visible though the ATA protocol, but they show that the HD 
is not perfect and might break earlier.

  Michael



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