10-16-2004, 10:33 AM
Actually i wouldn't recommend replaceing the cable. As the controller on the Xbox is only a ATA66 i belive. So putting a better cable won't help anything at all. And speaking about harddrive.. There are a few things you need to know. If you are going above 137gig harddrive you will need a bios that supports lba48 which all most current ones do. Especially the X3 bios's.. If you get a harddrive larger then 250 gigs you need to make sure that you use a special utility for the Xbox called XBParitioner and make sure that you format your partition 6 (F) with 32 or 64 (can't remember which one is the default but one above the default) to prevent getting Corruption when you start putting information above 250 gigs. (If you get a 250 gig harddrive you don't need to worry abou this because 8 gigs get allocated to the normal partitions so F only ends up at 242 which is safe.) But really any brand works. Atm i run Maxtor in one of my.. Western Digital in another and my 3rd one has a Seagate in it. So just what ever you can get cheaper i would say.