Thread: Xbox 360 120GB Hard Drive Security Sector Download (HDDSS.BIN) (HDDSS_120GB.BIN)

Hi there,

I have a problem with my harddrive, no waranty left on it..
It's a 120GB HDD from an Elite 360 console,
after applying the 13599 update trough USB, something went wrong in the 2nd part of the update.
Therefor the update did not complete fully. (it díd update to dashboard 13599)
My problem now is that with the harddrive in, it takes one minute to load the dashboard.
without it, maybe 3 seconds.. I tried on other 360's with no luck.
Also tried resetting the update, did not work either.. (with help of the xbox support line)
I tried formatting the hdd, which seems to work at first, but after that it keeps saying:
disc unformatted in the memory screen (each try to format succeeds, but with same results)

My actual question is: I'd like to hook the hdd up to my notebook trough eSata, and do a lowlevelformat,
check the disc for errors etc. From understanding, this I'll also erase the possibility to hook it up to the 360 again..
Is it possible to use your software to make it able to hook up on the 360 again after I did everything on my notebook?

Thanks for any help you guys can give me!

You can not use Hddhackr on anything except western digital drives, people have tried to fix retail Xbox 360 hard drives with that and not got anywhere.

If you did that you could maybe try flashing the security sector again with a Hex Editor from within Windows, no guarantee it will work though, see: http://digiex.net/guides-reviews/con...n-windows.html

Originally Posted by kiwi1990

From understanding, this I'll also erase the possibility to hook it up to the 360 again..
Is it possible to use your software to make it able to hook up on the 360 again after I did everything on my notebook?

Thanks for any help you guys can give me!

It is untrue that formatting an official 360 hard drive will make it impossible to hook it up to a 360 again. With the latest hard drive that got an E68 error (official hard drive) I hooked it up to my PC and literally installed Windows 7 to it, put it back into the 360 and it said 'unformatted device' so I formatted it and then it worked perfectly fine. I tried to format to FAT32 and the 360 wouldn't accept it, installed Windows 7, which I can only assume it formatted the drive to NTFS and then was able to format it back to a normal 360 hard drive, so you may want to format it to NTFS.

Ok thanks a lot for your quick responses!
I'll try to fix this hard drive up then,

Will try both of your advices, and will provide feedback about it after the weekend.

thanks again!