backup...

[Boost]

You need the following
Modded xbox
FTP client
Qwix
Nero
DVD Burner
Blank DVD
A crossover cable or,
network cable with a router or hub connected to your PC

MAKING THE XBOXISO

put the retail game in the xbox
FTP to your xbox ip
copy D to your computer
rename "D" to the name of the game in the xbox
close FTP
open Qwix, goto Tools, press "patch xbe", go into the game you just copied to your PC
and select "default.xbe"
once it's patched, goto Create ISO and add the entire folder ( xbox game ) from your PC
-- Creating an ISO with Qwix will make it a Xbox Iso ( GAME ) --
then Create ISO button    this will take a minute.........
now you have a xboxiso on your PC

BURNING THE XBOXISO TO A DVD
open NERO
goto Burn image to disc.
add the iso you made in qwix
make sure it's on finalize
BURN

this is how you would theoreticly do it....
I would have no idea, I don't make backups

i'm a goodboy

[Kyla666 (zzk2001)]

wow so much easyer just getting a Bigger HDD and useing DVD2Xbox to copy a game to Xbox HDD =)

[Boost]

hahahaaaa
 :-p

fo sho

get a huge HDD, if you can.  ( always the best )
but for us poor folks

use the tut

BOOST

[Kyla666 (zzk2001)]

Poor  DVD+r's Cost Money Man and if you don't have a DVD Burner that well cost you around 80-100$ when you can get a 120g HDD for 100$ =)

[Boost]

oh yeah, been a while scince this was brought up but I have a 300 gig seagate sittin pretty in the xbox.
it went from 20gig then 80gig then 120gig then 160gig, then 250gig, then finally at 300gig

it'll always grow bigger and bigger as time goes by
thats how it goes

thanks ZZK for the relentless stock xbox harddrive bashing
I have turned to the darkside

by the way loading time is cut in half or more on everything loading strait from the harddrive.
7000rpm with 16mg cache on hdd

thanks ZZK
BOOST

[TNM]

if i were to get a new HD would i have to mod my xbox again?

[Kyla666 (zzk2001)]

if you make your XboxHDm with a DVD-r  that has your C: and E: with shadowC (500mb) thats why you need a DVD

you should Not have to resoftmod But really Not that Hard to resoftmod =)

[TNM]

nah i was just wondering

[ViDER]

... Nice... 300 gigs, not bad!
B----U----T....., DO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT COOLING FOR IT?
You know that the ORIGINAL X-Box HD runs at 5400 RPM, and acording to some
X-Box sites, getting a 7200 RPM hdd into your X-Box without the proper cooling will
damage your X-Box, irevesablly.

Think about this... 

[Lopes_SLB]

cant you just put the game right onto ur HDD?

[drfweega]

Yeah with a program called Dvd2Xbox, you can store all your games onto the HDD.

[El_Unico]

yep dvd2xbox is sweet! i have it but i still need 2 updrade to a bigger hardddrive
i saw a 320 or was a 340gighardrive 4r about $120 dollars that im goin 2 cop up

[ViDER]

Well, there is no final solution for 100% working backup.

Just an example, if you try to backup the game "Indycar Racing 2005" you won't be able to boot into the game, or you might
get a "Dirty Disc Error". This is due to some anti piracy issues that CodeMasters use in their game.