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Xbox Original Softmod and Hard Drive Upgrade

  • Sam Wakefield

Sam Wakefield

Jun 14, 2022 • 1 min read
Xbox Original Softmod and Hard Drive Upgrade

Recently dabbled with an original Xbox and managed to softmod it using Rocky5 as well as upgrading to a 500GB SATA harddrive.

I was tempted to knock up a blog post on the build however you can find everything you need in this handy YouTube video.

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