Thanks to all involved! This process works flawlessly, once I used an old P4 machine I had kicking around hddhackr worked smoothly (on my new machine it gave me the sector 16 issue).
Then I checked the drive in the Xbox 360 and formatted it.
Then I used Hoffman’s partition2 and Xplorer 360...
HI,
I just ordered a wd Scorpio Blue WD3200BPVT 320GB, and one of the reviews mentioned needing Western Digital's "WD Align" program for Win XP to be "compatible", I just wondered if that might be part of the issues some folks are seeing, do we need to use WD Align first for Hddhackr to work...