The hard drive and motherboard are coded as a set motherboard knowing the password to access the HDD. I have tried to do what you are attempting several times without replacing either both as a pair or installing a mod chip with another larger HDD. Some have had success with soft-mods, but in my opinion your better off to chip it and fix it. Although llama.com has the motherboard and hard drive as a combo for $89.00 if you want original config. -----Original Message----- From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of hivolts Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 3:38 PM To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [TechAssist] X-Box Hard Drives Hi all This x-box has a bad hard drive keeps coming up with error code 7.my question is can I just replace the hard drive with out the modchip or is there away to fool the mother board into thinking the replacement drive is the old one. T.I.A Chuck Staples Staples T.V. Phippsburg Maine 04562 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/