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

Good afternoon. Thank you for replying InsaneNutter.
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The "image 2" refers to when I created partitions 1,2 and 3. The original .bin is intact, but I can't restore the original .bin, the size error (image 1) appears.

Can I use this tutorial to write the original .bin file back to hd or you do not recommend?
https://digiex.net/threads/xbox-360-how-to-flash-your-hddss-bin-in-windows.8569/

 

I was so proud, and posted it out in reddit x360 subreddit.
A few hours later found myself kicked out for good from that basket.
Damn...
Anyways. F*ck it. I'll have 1.5TB of storage almost 1/4 price. Worth it.

 

Heeeelp

It wont restore the firmware!!

 

Samething happened to me. Im trying to restore to the wd500lplx firmware but it gives me an error, it says that the Undo bin file has a wrong size!!

Did you solve your issue?

 

Weird thing is, its detecting the drive as a Hitachi drive, but with the original serial number. Does that means it only did half of the process?

 

HELLO, DO YOU THINK THIS COULD WORK WITH A SSD? Western Digital one?

 

So, do you know if there is a way to use a SSD in xbox 360 or we just have tu use HHD only?

 

Thank you, I´ll see if it works

 

So I've run into a problem, a big problem that I don't see listed anywhere on the net. I purchased a WD 500gb BPVT. Thoroughly tested it, passed with no problems. Hacked it to work in the xbox360 no problems. Put it in and transfered alll my games to it (250gb) without issue (other than it took forever and I had to watch it the whole time to keep it from auto shutdown while transferring... ugh). Browsed around and played some xbox 360 games no problem. Drive working perfect and quiet whole time. HOWEVER...
Currently I am playing Morrowind (original xbox game) and I am playing it off the disc. When I play this game the hard drive makes a bad CLINK noise every few minutes and its enough to drive you crazy. (!!)
Okay so I reflashed the undo.bin have had it plugged in for hours now and it has not CLINKed even once.
Does anyone know WTF is going on, obviously the drive is malfunctioning but only when xbox original game is played off disk, what is happening perhaps firmware isn't 100%, perhaps drive trying to enter standby and malfunctioning? , etc. To my knowledge the hard disk isn't even being used at all except to save for this game.
Now if I get another one of these drives and try again is it just going to do the same thing??? I have many xbox original games and this is a major problem for me.

WDC WD5000BPVT-24HXZT3 mfg jan 31 2012

It seems to me that clearly this xbox360 500gb firmware needs some kind of fix and is not working properly with OG xbox games. Super angry I wasted so much time on this. On top of that I insulted the seller of this drive and called it defective crap. LOL please help with solution to this, thanks!!

 

uh oh.
wdidle3 /d, disabled timer.
then hddhackr, etc.
now seems may have bricked the drive.
xbox 360 won't recognize it now,
crashes my desktop when plugged into pc
how to undo.bin now?

will try some stuff... cross fingers

 

so...
connect drive to desktop sata and boot to dos
ran wdidle3 and /d , seemed to work
reboot
ran hddhackr and flashed firmware, seemed to work
turn off desktop computer
hooked up to laptop via transfer cable and create partitions, installed xbox emu to partition 2
(I use different method with fatXplorer but basically same thing is accomplished)
plug into xbox 360, not recognized
hooked back upto sata desktop
desktop wont boot
....
finally get desktop to boot through luck and bios fiddling
restore undo.bin to drive
reboot
drive completely bricked and lost all firmware and even serial number
can no longer flash it
makes strange noises on bootup

i believe the drive was bricked after flashing hddhackr firmware with the altered wdidle settings
it didnt like that
very bad idea sir
however i dont even care because returning it anyways and I didnt lose any data so

i am recieving a new hard drive from newegg
problem is it is also a BPVT
(its the only one on the hddhackr list still in production that you can buy new)
now I am worried that, same thing is going to happen

Can other members test an original xbox game in their 360 and see if the "CHINK" noise occurs?
has this been reported before?
seems like a pretty big problem.
am I going to have to buy a MS brand 500gb drive to play without the noise?

this whole thing is kind of a nightmare
however I do find computer work interesting
and I suppose its something to do

 

That's what happened to me. I believe that's why the newer LPLX drives won't work. They won't take the serial number from the flash.

 

I have learned some things, Nutter was correct, apologies Nutter,
so the noise was most likely from the head parking.
So WD drives feature intellipark which parks the drives every 8 seconds of inactivity!
which is totally stupid and creates shortened lifespan of the drive and is highly noisy.
here is also a thread about head parking behavior of WD: https://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=63051
have recieved advice from an expert,
that HDDhackr latest release includes the ability to change intellipark timer.
So check the HDDHACKR readme! on how to do this
so disable it or set it to a long value.
or there are other utilities

think, that my drive bricked likely due to accidental plug in of a faulty drive first,
or could have been something as dumb as a loose cable.
if this happens to you try using the brute force flash instructions in the HDDHackr readme.

hope this helps someone

ps- note that I didn't hear this noise at all during using the drive on my laptop or xbox360 while not in emulator mode so they must have some kind of stay active signal sending to the drive. Another possibility is that the downward compression on the drive from the xbox360 drive caddy and slot amplified the noise

 

Hello There,
I want to ask about this model (WD2500LPCX 250 GB manufactured 23 June 2014), it is supported for firmware and further work, there is only a 500 GB version in the topic header, or is it better to take a proven one WD3200BEKT?
I would be grateful for your help.

 

I decided not to experiment and bought a disc from the list of supported WD3200BEKT-75PVMT0
with the Wdidle3 I set the parking for 300 seconds, and successfully flashed it according to the instructions from the header. Everything worked great, thank you for the tutorial.
I have a question, any advantages of an increased cache of 16 MB compared to 8 MB original disks, and 7200 rotation against 5400 rpm, which revision of SATA in xbox360 uses? (SATA I/SATA II)