recycle original xbox hardware in pc---help!!!!!!

[kaisar1]

hi, i need some advice on whether or not original xbox components will work in my desktop pc?????

the 2 components which i want to reuse are:

xbox samsung DVD-ROM Drive Model: SDG-605
xbox western digital ide hardrive

also is there any other components that i could recycle and use in my pc?????????

any advice would be much appreciated. thanks in advance

[cunny]

yeah the hard drive should be fine once re partitioned

[kaisar1]

yeah the hard drive should be fine once re partitioned

is there any password etc or do i just plug and play the hard drive? also this would be my second hard drive in the computer, would i need to make one of the hard drive "slave" or something?

bit confused, hope you can help

[andy1weir]

youd have to set the hard drive with your os to a master drive then set the xbox hard drive as a slave

[kaisar1]

youd have to set the hard drive with your os to a master drive then set the xbox hard drive as a slave

how do i do that?

just found out how to do it, thanks,


one more thing can i reuse the dvd drive as well?????????????

[snagga]

Look here [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvvM2Ao4Jpk]YouTube - Install a Second IDE Hard Drive[/ame]

[andy1weir]

just the same procedure mate, set the xbox dvd drive to a slave and the one you already have in it to master and all should be ok

the drives in xbox's (as far as im aware) are just standard dvd-rom drives, i know for a fact that you can use a drive from your pc into the xbox so should work vice versa

good luck

[chroma]

The only difference between xbox dvd drives and commercial pc drives is the power connector.

If i remember rightly the xbox has a rectangular feed instead of a standard molex, to get around this you would need to figure the pinouts and patch the connector inside the xbox to a female molex plug to allow it to get power.

[andy1weir]

oooh thanks for the info chroma i though they were all the same