Hack a 250gb, 320gb or 500gb Sata harddrive to work in the Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 Slim

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  1. Rick

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    you need a jtagged console for a 1tb hard drive....hddhackr doesn't work for 1tb drives
     
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    Thanks for this write-up! I ordered that same drive, $47 got me a 250gb drive for my 4gb 360 slim which is awesome.

    I did not have any trouble with Windows 7 using any of the software. The prompts were a little different around this step: Digiex - Latest News and I did receive some kind of ATA warning as you described but I followed through it anyways after checking my bios and didn't find anything. When it was done with the flash, it said "You may now connect the hard drive to your 360" so I skipped the 2nd step with partition2, connected the drive, went to try play an original game and realized I must have missed a step and connected the hd back to my pc.

    One downfall with not having an enclosure for the drive is I actually had to use needle nose pliers on on part of the metal lip to get the drive out. Not the easiest thing to do and I nearly dropped the drive when I pulled it out.
     
  3. Rick

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    There is a link to buy a enclosure on the first page for slim consoles.
     
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    hack xbox 360 slim

    hi all,
    i have an xbox 360 slim 8GB with manufacture date '09/2010'
    can i hack my xbox using this tutorial?
    if not, is there a way to hack it?
    thank you
     
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    Yes, you can hack a hard drive to use in your console (Y)
     
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    thanks Digiex Bot for you reply
    i have one more question
    can we use this tutorial so we can play burned games on xbox 360 slim?
    if not how can i mod my xbox 360 slim so i can play burned games?
    thank you in advance
     
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    This tutorial is about upgrading the hard drive in your console on the cheap, so lets keep talk to that.
    Its possible, however there is no easy way at the moment and the firmware has not been released that will allow you to do that.
     
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    I only get the option to format my USB to FAT32. In the picture you have FAT, does it matter?
     
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    fat/fat32/fat-x or ex what ever it is its all th same over all
     
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    When i boot off of the USB i get, "g operating system_" And then nothing.
     
  11. Rick

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    fat/fat32 can be read by windows and fatx can only be read by xbox 360 and xbox 360 modding tools(xplorer360,modio,xport360...)

    it must be FAT to work.
     
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    I just had to join this place to say Thank you so much for a well put together easy guide.

    I just did it, at my Dad's who had a laptop with XP (only have linux at home with a XP VM, but the VM was too small to copy it over, and was too lazy to figure out if I could grow the XDI file). Going to take it home and try it out, but seems so easy. Will update.

    I waited outside overnight in the rain for my original 360 (before I knew my wife was pregnant, may not have if I had known). And Had always wondered about upgrading it, just the Kinect made me want to, along with Black Ops installation and such.
     
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    hello guys
    maybe it is a little bit out of subject but i just want to ask if we use the hard disk hack approach described in this document and use the LT+ created by Team Xecuter and use the Hard Disk on Xbox 360 slim and try to play burned games will it work?

    thank you
     
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    You can use the hard drive in the slim yes, however no you can not play burned games, this has nothing to do with piracy.
     
  15. Rick

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    Yes it will.That is only if you flash the dvd drive but we won't go into that cuz im not sure how to do it.
     
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    As far as I know the 360 Slim CAN'T be modded to do burned games yet I have seen a video on youtube of a slim playing burned game's but no one has released any firmware for the DVD drive
     
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    Many thanks for this, just got a 160 gb to work but had to use the 120 gb hack so loose some space useing a 160 HDD
    Does any1 know of a 160 gb hack to use with this?.
    If not it dont matter cus its saved me a load of dosh!!!.
    Chriscrezz
     
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    I don't think there is one for 160gig because Microsoft only use's 20,60,120,250 so I believe all other size's are unsupported unless you have a Jtagged console but then thats a whole different story :)
     
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    160 gb

    Thanks for that, still saved me goin out and spendin £80 on a Microsoft HDD!!!!.
    Rip off i know!!!!.
    Thanks again(H)
     
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    <:o)By the way this site ROCKS!!!.:P
     

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