Thread: How to extract / dump title updates (patches) to and from the Xbox 360 hard drive

First you need to connect the Xbox 360 hard drive to your computer using something like the Microsoft Transfer Kit, the Xport Docking Station or the Datel Xsata.

Download Xplorer 360 for 20 / 120gb drives or for 250gig drives. DO NOT USE THE 250GB VERSION ON A SMALLER DRIVE OR VISA VERSA, IT WILL CORRUPT ALL YOUR DATA.

Now load Xplorer 360, be sure to run it with Administrative rights.


Then open your Xbox 360 hard drive


Now click on Partition 3 then on the Cache folder, the contents of the folder should be displayed as in the image below.



Extracting a title update from the 360 hard drive.

This is the hard and annoying bit now, as you will notice the folder is full of temp files and title updates, if you are wanting to extract a title update there is no easy way to find out which update is which.

My suggestion would be to dump the everything in Cache folder to your PC then delete it from your Xbox 360, go on Xbox Live, Play the game you want the title update for and let it download.

You should only have the title update for that game in the Cache folder, you can then dump it to the desktop as seen in the screenshot below. After you can add the contents of your cache folder back to your hard drive if you wish.





Checking you have extracted the correct file

Download 360 Tool

You might need to copy the COMDLG32.OCX from the 360 Tool folder to your Windows\System32 folder then right click on the .exe and run it as an administrator to get it to work correctly. That’s the only way I could get the tool to work correctly on Windows 7 64bit.

You can then see information about the title update you extracted as seen in the screenshot below.



Hopefully you extracted the update you wanted, if you don’t want to use my suggestion above for easily getting the update your after just keep extracting them until you find the one you are after.



Dumping a downloaded title update to the 360 hard drive.

This is the simple process of opening your hard drive in Xplorer360 as demonstrated earlier in this guide then right clicking on the Cache folder and selecting insert file.


Do this and find the file you want, it will then be injected to the 360 hard drive.



That’s all!



If you have downloaded a Title Update from Digiex or found this guide useful please consider sharing your title updates with us.

Unlike Demos it is not easy for the few uploaders here at Digiex to get title updates as it requires the person to own the game… lets be honest we don’t all have 100’s of Xbox 360 games!

With demos anyone can download them from the market place, which makes getting the demos people want a lot easier than title updates.