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Step by step disassembly guide for the Microsoft Xbox (Original) Philips DVD drive.
This was not my personal Xbox so please don’t ask what happened to the top cover. It is assumed the original owner got a game stuck inside and couldn’t figure out how to recover it without prying the top spindle off. They were kind enough to electrical tape it back down and this drive is now fully functional :)
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Use a metal spudger to pry off the four rubber feet.
The screw is in the outside corner. If you pry up only the half of the foot on that side, you can easily remove the (very long) screw, and the foot will stay attached.
Ah I always used to damage the feet.
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You can either remove the labels or simply feel for the screw holes through the labels and then cut or punch a hole through them.
It is also easy to feel for the screw hole with your finger and then cut a hole, or punch it out with the tip of the Torx driver to reveal the screw.
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Remove the six T20 Torx screws securing the top cover to the bottom cover.
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Once the bottom and top shells are no longer attached, carefully turn the Xbox right-side-up, lift and remove the top cover.
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Remove the three 3 mm T10 screws securing the hard drive to the Xbox.
The other two are at the front right and left sides of the DVD DRIVE.
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Free the hard drive power cable from the carrier for sufficient slack to lift the hard drive out.
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Lift the plastic hard drive carrier out of the Xbox case.
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Remove the four 3.4 mm T15 Torx screws from the plastic hard drive carrier (two screws per side).
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Carefully remove the hard drive from the plastic carrier. Gentle rocking will see the hard drive come out quite easily.
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Pull both the hard drive data ribbon cable and the power cable straight up from the hard drive.
Remember that the new drive will only work if it has been properly prepared, and the Xbox has been modified.
there is NO way to legally replace the xbox hard drive. it is LOCKED to the motherboard and the xbox will not boot to the OS or make it past the BIOS if the HDD is not the one that came with it from the factory. you MUST use a mod chip and “home brew” to do a HDD swap and expect it to work
Could you point me to a good tutorial on using a modding an original Xbox? All I want to do is swap an HDD in original Xbox with another original Xbox HDD because I want my saved game data. Any way to figure this out? Seems like modding is a !&&* of a burden.
Can i replace the original hard drive with new one
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Remove the disk drive. It should come right out.
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Unplug the ribbon cable and yellow cables from back of disk drive.
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Pry back the black plastic tabs around the disk drive in order to remove it from its housing. Once removed, set the drive aside.
It is ok to remove the drive if it isn't dead. If repairs are required to the drive it needs to be removed from the drive's housing.
Surely this needs to be removed to access the motherboard?
Yes, it does.
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Remove 4 PH2 screws
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Remove top cover
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With the pointed end of a spudger slide this piece to the right
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Laser assembly will drop about a quarter inch
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Drive door will open about a quarter inch and can now be manually opened
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Gently slide drive door closed.
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Slide this piece to the left.
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Laser assembly will raise about a quarter inch.
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Drive door is now secured.
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Loop the wires out from their retaining brackets.
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With the drive upside down, gently pull back on the ribbon cable retaining tabs and pull out the ribbon cable.
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There are 2 plastic tabs and 1 post holding the board in place. Lift up on the post, slide PCB to the left and then forward.
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Rotate PCB right and place to the side
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There's just enough length in the cable to place the board in a PCB holder to replace capacitors.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
