Here is partition 2 that has been dumped from an Xbox 360 hard drive.
Download Xbox 360 hard drive Partition 2
After downloading extract the Partition2.bin with WinRAR.
Now with the hard drive you want to restore Partition 2 to connected to the PC (transfer cable will work fine) open the drive with Xplorer 360 Extreme 2.
After doing that select Drive > Restore Partition 2 and select the Partition2.bin you extracted from the rar file.
Let the process finish, you have now restored Partition 2 and can play backwards compatible Xbox games on the 360.
If your hard drive is not 20gb or 120gb do not touch partition 3 as it will corrupt the data on it!
You can restore Partition 2 on hard drives of any size, that includes drives in jtag consoles.
If you do not have xbox live, you can update the emulator by using this tutorial.
Xbox 360 Backwards Compatibility Update
Last edited by Rick; 27-08-12 at 03:28.
Its for people who hack there own hard drive to use in the Xbox 360.
If you own an arcade console you never had an old hard drive to get partition 2 from... its needed to run the Xbox emulator for backwards compatible games.
Is there a way to put this on USB?
Thanks a bunch for this. You described me to a T....I have an Arcade model with a hacked 250gb hdd thanks to using hddhackr 1.22. I recently purchased a very cheap original Halo combat evolved and couldn't play it. I found that my partion 2 is the issue. Thanks for posting this. I'll give this a try ASAP.
Good luck mastover, I hope it works for you. Please do post back and let me know.
Nope you need a hard drive for this to be any use to you.
Phone: Galaxy Nexus - 16gb - bootloader unlocked & rooted - running Android 4.2.2
Tablet: Asus Transformer Prime - 32gb - rooted - running Android 4.1.1
360: Jasper - 1tb drive - jtag hacked running the 16197 dash (thanks to XeBuild 1.05)
360: Falcon - 250gig drive hacked with hddhackr, not flashed
Have a question or need help? Post on the forum, thats why it's here. I will only reply to Digiex related issues via PM, not general help requests.
If i helped you say thanks by signing up for Dropbox with my referral link, we will both get an extra 500mb of space for free.
Please how can i put this on a USB drive?
Phone: Galaxy Nexus - 16gb - bootloader unlocked & rooted - running Android 4.2.2
Tablet: Asus Transformer Prime - 32gb - rooted - running Android 4.1.1
360: Jasper - 1tb drive - jtag hacked running the 16197 dash (thanks to XeBuild 1.05)
360: Falcon - 250gig drive hacked with hddhackr, not flashed
Have a question or need help? Post on the forum, thats why it's here. I will only reply to Digiex related issues via PM, not general help requests.
If i helped you say thanks by signing up for Dropbox with my referral link, we will both get an extra 500mb of space for free.
Such a shame!! Thank's anyway!
What does this do
I just ran that xplorer360 extreme file linked through virustotal.com and it says its infected with various worm viruses.
here is the results page.
VirusTotal - Free Online Virus, Malware and URL Scanner
It triggered 11 different antivirus programs.
So does anyone have a non-infected version?
Im trying to get Halo2 to work on a hacked WesternDigital drive on my xbox360slim, so i think i need to perform this partition 2 step.
Its a false positive, the file is clean and works fine.
Phone: Galaxy Nexus - 16gb - bootloader unlocked & rooted - running Android 4.2.2
Tablet: Asus Transformer Prime - 32gb - rooted - running Android 4.1.1
360: Jasper - 1tb drive - jtag hacked running the 16197 dash (thanks to XeBuild 1.05)
360: Falcon - 250gig drive hacked with hddhackr, not flashed
Have a question or need help? Post on the forum, thats why it's here. I will only reply to Digiex related issues via PM, not general help requests.
If i helped you say thanks by signing up for Dropbox with my referral link, we will both get an extra 500mb of space for free.
Hi All, first post and hopefully not a silly question.....
How long does it take to restore partition 2? It's been sitting there some time, around 10 minutes (with the green progress bar moving up and down) but not finishing. It does this with both partition 2 taken from my old hard drive and also the one contained in this thread.
I've successfully put the 250GB drive in the 360 and it's seeing it, I've installed several games to the new 250GB HD.
I wanted to play Halo hence the addition of partition 2.
Last edited by hillster; 20-09-10 at 10:03.
Also remember on Windows Vista / 7 you need to run the program with admin rights otherwise you will have problems.
Phone: Galaxy Nexus - 16gb - bootloader unlocked & rooted - running Android 4.2.2
Tablet: Asus Transformer Prime - 32gb - rooted - running Android 4.1.1
360: Jasper - 1tb drive - jtag hacked running the 16197 dash (thanks to XeBuild 1.05)
360: Falcon - 250gig drive hacked with hddhackr, not flashed
Have a question or need help? Post on the forum, thats why it's here. I will only reply to Digiex related issues via PM, not general help requests.
If i helped you say thanks by signing up for Dropbox with my referral link, we will both get an extra 500mb of space for free.
I registered on here JUST to say thanks for providing the Partition2 and the tutorial for getting XBox Originals to work on my Western Digital Black 250Gb hacked hard drive. I followed the instructions EXACTLY and it worked like a charm. Thanks again!
Hey Hoffmann,
is this partition2 from Hitachi, Seagate or from another Xbox HDD Manufactor?
I have a original partition2 from a Seagate and i compared both files (your partition2.bin and mine) but there are mismatches.
The 250GB HDDSS.BIN I use is from an Hitachi HDD, maybe its safer to have an partition2.bin from an Hitachi drive too, if you think about Xbox Live.
@tobad
read this guide i think your getting confused http://digiex.net/guides-reviews/con...-360-slim.html
i'm just asking. my i have downloaded two partition2 dumps and i dumped my originale 20gb Xbox HDD.
I compared them, but they are not equal - thats why I'm asking. How can they missmatch? Shouldn't they be exactly the same? Maybe the partition2 depends on the harddrive manufactor?
If you encounter any problems with my uploads make sure to post for help.
Keep up to date with the latest uploads / threads on my twitter.
The Xbox emulator does receive updates, after it is updated that would more then likely modify the size of the space in partition 2.
PS3: 80GB BC Firmware: 3.55NFWv3 Cobra Edition
360: 120GB No modifications.
left Side: my original Partition2
right Side: the one from Hoffmann
@ Dark Scyth where can i get the latest updates of partition2?Vergleichen der Dateien C:\_360\TOOLS\HDDHACKR\BACKUPS\ORIGINAL_20GB\PARTI TION2\Partition2.bin und C:\_360\TOOLS\HDDHACKR\PARTITION2\PARTITION2.BIN
0000A036: 8B B1
0000A037: D7 FB
0000A03A: 8B B2
0000A03B: DA 01
0000A03E: 8B B2
0000A03F: DA 01
0000A076: 8B B2
0000A077: DB 01
0000A07A: 8B B2
0000A07B: DB 01
0000A07E: 8B B2
0000A07F: DB 01
0000E036: 8B B1
0000E037: D7 FB
0000E03A: 8B B1
0000E03B: D7 FB
0000E03E: 8B B1
0000E03F: D7 FB
0000E07C: 3D 33
0000E07D: 8C 45
0000E07F: 61 01
0000E0BC: 3D 33
0000E0BD: 8C 45
0000E0BF: 61 01
0000E0F5: 76 90
0000E0F6: 60 A1
0000E0F7: 2B 91
0000E0F8: 33 39
0000E0F9: 76 69
0000E0FA: 60 2E
0000E0FB: 09 AD
0000E0FC: 3D 33
0000E0FD: 8C 90
0000E0FE: B2 A1
0000E0FF: 61 91
00012036: 8B B1
00012037: D7 FB
0001203A: 8B B1
0001203B: D8 FC
0001203E: 8B B1
0001203F: D9 FD
00012074: 33 39
00012075: 76 69
00012076: 60 2E
00012077: 06 AB
00012078: 33 39
00012079: 76 69
0001207A: 60 2E
0001207B: 06 AB
0001207C: 3D 39
0001207D: 8C 69
0001207E: B2 2E
0001207F: 61 AB
000120B4: 36 33
000120B5: 2D 8F
000120B6: 63 54
000120B7: 28 92
000120B8: 36 33
000120B9: 2D 8F
000120BA: 63 54
000120BB: 28 92
000120BC: 36 33
000120BD: 2D 8F
000120BE: 63 54
000120BF: 28 92
0001603C: 3D 33
0001603D: 8C 45
0001603E: B2 B1
0001603F: 4C FC
0001607C: 3D 33
0001607D: 8C 45
0001607F: 4C 01
020CE035: 17 1A
020CE036: 0A 2F
020CE037: 05 62
020CE03C: 3D 33
020CE03D: 8C 45
020CE03F: 60 1A
0B9BA034: 33 39
0B9BA035: 76 69
0B9BA036: 60 2E
0B9BA037: 06 AB
0B9BA038: 33 39
0B9BA039: 76 69
0B9BA03A: 60 2E
0B9BA03B: 06 AB
0B9BA03C: 3D 39
0B9BA03D: 8C 69
0B9BA03E: B2 2E
0B9BA03F: 4C AB
0B9C2808: 36 34
0B9C280A: 53 57
0B9C280C: 02 00
0B9C2814: 00 06
0B9C2816: 00 53
0B9C2817: 00 55
0B9C2818: 00 01
0B9C281C: 00 01
0B9C2820: 00 64
0B9C2822: 00 53
0B9C2823: 00 4D
0B9C2824: 00 02
0B9C2828: 00 01
Last edited by Rick; 12-12-12 at 01:34. Reason: Added spoiler.
According to XBL, this is the most up to date version of the emulator.
PS3: 80GB BC Firmware: 3.55NFWv3 Cobra Edition
360: 120GB No modifications.
Its very unlikely anyones partition 2 will match this one, not that it matters anyway.
Partition 2 also contains the avatar files, the avatars get updated every time there is a new dashboard update so thats one reason why they are never going to match.
This was dumped a long time ago, however should have the latest version of the emulator.
Phone: Galaxy Nexus - 16gb - bootloader unlocked & rooted - running Android 4.2.2
Tablet: Asus Transformer Prime - 32gb - rooted - running Android 4.1.1
360: Jasper - 1tb drive - jtag hacked running the 16197 dash (thanks to XeBuild 1.05)
360: Falcon - 250gig drive hacked with hddhackr, not flashed
Have a question or need help? Post on the forum, thats why it's here. I will only reply to Digiex related issues via PM, not general help requests.
If i helped you say thanks by signing up for Dropbox with my referral link, we will both get an extra 500mb of space for free.
First of all I'd like to say thanks for posting these instructions, they are very helpful. I am having one problem though, when I get to the part where I am actually restoring paritition 2 to my 250 GB Hitatchi HDD the progress bar dispayed on the screen with Xplorer 360 shows no progress even after running 30 minutes or more. Any idea what would cause this? I'm running XP SP 3 by the way.
Do you have to have JTAG?
Or could you use a normal xbox 360?
Please reply
If you encounter any problems with my uploads make sure to post for help.
Keep up to date with the latest uploads / threads on my twitter.
If I do the process mentioned by the thread, will that get me banned or set my profile in risk? I should note that i have the 4 GB version of xbox 360 "slim" and bought a 250 chinese HDD. Also, besides the transfer cable is there another cable, or cables, i can use to connect the HDD to my computer (like say a standard sata cable)??
I'm also curious whether or not you'll get banned on Live if you restore partition 2. I, too, have a non-official Chinese 250 GB HDD. Also, do I need to first hex edit the drive or could I just go into Xplore 360 and recover partition 2 directly? Thanks.
If you encounter any problems with my uploads make sure to post for help.
Keep up to date with the latest uploads / threads on my twitter.
omg THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!! Downloaded GTAA about a week ago and FINALLY we can play it! Hubby'll be SO happy when he wakes up!!!
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Ok
I have xp media center and I have followed this guide to a T and my games still do not work. What could I be doing wrong?
During the process 360explorer froze up as soon as the progress bar was complete. I had to restart the program and explore the drive again in order to see the partitions content. I then explored it and it looked like it had a folder that says compatibility and some other folder.
What I want to know is why am I still getting an error message the the games are not compatible?
run xplorer360 extreme as admin
open drive
click on restore partition 2
don't mess with any other partition or it may corrupt the drive
test on xbox 360,it should work
If you encounter any problems with my uploads make sure to post for help.
Keep up to date with the latest uploads / threads on my twitter.
ok
I followed your instructions exactly and now this time I'm missing partition 0. Then I put it back in the 360 and it worked but the compatibility does not work. I then formatted the drive and partition 0 is still missing. So the drive is still working in 360, it is now missing partition 0 and the partition compatibility still does not work.
I don't know what else to do but to give up on this. It seems to work for everyone else but me. I must be missing something.
Mike
update!
got it to work... I did not realize I needed to be signed into live for the games to work.. everything works like a charm now.
thank you for such a great upload!
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