The botherboard bios proved to be extremely difficult to reverse engineer as Microsoft had cleverly hidden it deep within the traces and added false bios chips and traces to hide the real one.The locked drive is also impossible to use in a PC and can't even be started to attempt to read the contents. The Xbox Hard-drive has been 'locked' with a password from the factory and only the Xbox it was installed in knows the password to 'unlock' the hard-drive, if the drive fails, or is not locked or replaced with another drive the Xbox will refuse to boot.Only programs signed with the Microsoft encrypted key are allowed to execute on the X-box, the Encryption is very strong and despite Brute-force attacks running on 1000's of computers it has not been broken yet.when they do you'll hear about it!.The DVD Game disks use two formats the first 1.3 gig is a regular file system that all PC's can see and the balance is fat-x.The DVD drive in the Xbox is a regular PC drive except for two things it uses a special firmware to allow it to read fat-x and it uses a special connection to handle eject requests.The Xbox runs a customized Version of the windows kernal and uses a unique file system dubbed 'fat-X' it of course isn't recognized by any other operating system, if you would like to read more about fat-x click Here Note that fat-x supports long filenames up to 42 characters long.Microsoft released the Xbox and incorporated some tricky copy protection schemes that were aimed at stopping individuals from copying games or running programs not approved by Microsoft.The copy protection runs deep and consists of these items: Lets go back to the beginning.If you wish to skip this part click Here Running games from the hard-drive makes the games load much faster, you will definitely benefit from not having to constantly eject and change game disks.
This information will allow you to create Back-ups of games before the original game is damaged. How do I copy games to the internal hard-drive?
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