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

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  1. Balrog

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    If this has been addressed before, I apologize.
    1. What about using 3.5 in. hard drives via an extension cable? I have a pile of the 3.5's around. I'd rather buy cable than buy another HDD.
    2. What does a a successfully patched HDD look like to Windows systems? Usable?
     
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    If this has been addressed before, I apologize.
    1. What about using 3.5 in. hard drives via an extension cable? I have a pile of the 3.5's around. I'd rather buy cables than buy another HDD.
    3. What does a a successfully patched HDD look like to Windows systems? Usable?
     
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    3.5in drives, patched HDD on windows

    If this has been addressed before, I apologize.
    1. What about using 3.5 in. hard drives via an extension cable? I have a pile of the 3.5's around. I'd rather buy cables than buy another HDD.
    3. What does a a successfully patched HDD look like to Windows systems? Usable?
     
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    If this has been addressed before, I apologize.
    1. What about using 3.5 in. hard drives via an extension cable? I have a pile of 3.5s around. I'd rather buy cables than buy another HDD.
    3. What does a a successfully patched HDD look like to Windows systems? Usable?
     
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    Sorry. I was getting server errors that looked like it wasn't posting.
     
  6. Balrog

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    Found answer to #1: power. Soldering. I have another solution: power from my PC. A 3.5" solution will be a frankenstein anyway.
    Still digging for #2. If I ever get a HDD patched, I'll just have to plug it into a windows box to find out.
     
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    It will show up in device manager, however not under the hard drives in my computer.
     
  8. Balrog

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    I went through the hddhackr flash process but with it gets to the end instead of say congratulations....etc, I get a error message "Bad/Wrong Model or number offset!"

    Attached is original undo.zip and post flash undo1.zip BIN files.
     

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  9. adrian_oprea

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    I need help
    Does anybody have undo.bin for
    WD1600BEVS-75RST0 date:29 nov 2007
    WD scorpio
    Thanks
     
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    Bump. Is more information needed?
     
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    Strange one, what drive are you trying to hack?
     
  12. Balrog

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    I'd have thought you'd be able to tell from the UNDO file?
    WD3200KS-00PFB0
    MOBO: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD 790XT-G45 (MS-7388) with latest BIOS
    It's a 3.5" drive
    See 1st posting for the UNDO files.
     
  13. Balrog

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    *bump* Is this a dead issue? Should I move on?
     
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    InsaneNutter Resident Nutter Staff Member

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    Usually any problems like that are related to the sata chipset been used to hack the drive, I had no trouble when i created this tutorial years ago. However when i came to do a newer drive using modern hardware I had a lot of trouble. In the end I used an older netbook.

    I know it doesn't help much but it's a tricky topic to really provide much more info on than I have in the tutorial sadly.
     
  15. Montac

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    Does a WD5000LPLX will work? Thanks.
     
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    Not sure however i've just added the WD5000BPVX to the comparability list as working. All drives in the BPVX should work.

    The WD5000BPVX was confirmed working by duraband420.
     
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    Anyone know if WD2500LPVX would work? Also if I do not care about backwards compatibility do I need to do the Restoring the Xbox Classic Emulator and User Content: section.
     
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    The drives in the LPVX series should work, someone has confirmed the WD5000LPVX does. I'd imagine the 250gb version of that drive will also work with that in mind.
     
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    Hello I have a xbox360 black and I want to try to hack the hardrive
    do you have a list of western digital hard rive 100% compatible ?
    I will banned from live if I use a hacked hard drive ?
     
  20. InsaneNutter

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    You will not be banned, the first post in this thread has a list.

    A good drive to hack would be the WD5000LPVX
     

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