fatx drive not showing up in xp or win 7 to fix Xbox emulator partition

[FumbleThumbs]

I followed your tutorial and upgrade my hdd for the 360, it was so easy and worked flawlessly, thanks! I did not however have a hdd that I could back up data from, so I skipped the original Xbox emulator step. Now I've tried updating the emulator from the xex disc from Microsoft, tried connecting to win 7 by sata to usb and xp by sata to usb. No fatx drive was detected on either computer (both laptops). I've tried both xplorer extreme 2 and xplorer 250, still nothing: same as before no fatx drive. Tried running as admin on both laptops, tried turning uac off in win 7, still same: no fatx drive. I formatted my 360hdd in the 360 and tried all steps and options again on both computers, still no fatx drive located. The drive is good, been using after upgrade for months with no problems. I've joined as a member to ask for help in the thread, I thought I posted twice, but there has been no post from me show up in the thread. I've dug around on Google and within other threads to try and find an answer, but all I keep seeing as a response for everyone's fatx issue is run as admin, or compatibility mode, or both, which I have already tried. Since I formatted the hdd inside the 360 it should show up when I connect, only xp says a drive was connected, but it doesn't show up otherwise. I'm going to start from scratch with hddhackr, but if the drive won't show in Windows anyway then fixing the emulator partition is still a dead end. I don't know what I'm missing! The hddhackr tutorial was so easy and this emulator partition problem is driving me insane! I have come to you directly for help since I haven't found a straight forward answer from anywhere. I also tried tweeting to Rick to ask for help, still no response. I know you two must be busy and I really appreciate everything you've given to the community, so thank you very much for everything you've done!

My assets:
Win 7 x64 home premium, laptop
Win XP laptop
Sata to usb (powered) transfer cable.
Working wd drive model:wd2500bekt-75pvmt0
Xbox 360 Modern warfare edition.
Usb drives galore and win 7 and xp dvds

 

[FumbleThumbs]

Don't know what I did differently, but for some reason xplorer extreme 250 is working now... sorry for the tldr post.

 

[Rick]

Use explorer 360 to transfer partition 2. Don't touch the other partitions though.

 

[FumbleThumbs]

Xplorer 360 is working, showing partition 0&3. Should I use the xplorer 360 250gb instead? Are they basically the same when it comes to reinjecting the emulator to partition 2? Just wanted to clarify. Thank you for a great tutorial and everything else you've done on here!

 

[Rick]

If partition 2 isn't showing up you may need to back up your data(using xplorer 360 or any other methods) and then use the create partitions option in hddhackr. xplorer 360 original is for managing 20gb drives and restoring partition 2.