formatted with transfer cable?

[pogopat]

Hi.if someone was stupid enough *cough cough* to have formated a 120gb Hdd whilest connected via transfer cable and not directly to xbox so the xbox then only see's the hdd as a usb device how would you correct it?
it didnt have any data on it that would be lost.

 

[GILLY]

Try formatting the HDD to NTFS then put it back into the Xbox 360 & see if it sees it, if it says "Unformatted Device", format it from the Xbox 360.

NOTE: The above may or may not work, worth a try though

 

[pogopat]

Try formatting the HDD to NTFS then put it back into the Xbox 360 & see if it sees it, if it says "Unformatted Device", format it from the Xbox 360.

NOTE: The above may or may not work, worth a try though

no good.xbxo 360 still doesnt see it.

any other ideas anyone?
Have read several posts after googling but havent seen a sure fire method of solving this.
Did see on a different post here about converting a external hdd for use on 360?
Was for Western hdd but would something similar work?

 

[Michael_T]

A jtag Xbox 360 should be able to format the 120 gig hdd .

 

[pogopat]

Having not heard of a jtag I've just googled and I haven't got access to one and sounds more hassle and more expensive then the original hdd was.

 

[InsaneNutter]

You could try this tutorial here: https://digiex.net/guides-reviews/c...box-360-how-flash-your-hddss-bin-windows.html And flash the 120gb security sector here: https://digiex.net/downloads/downlo...ector-download-hddss-bin-hddss_120gb-bin.html.

I believe the drive is not working as formatting it in Windows has erased the security sector which tells the 360 its an official Microsoft hard drive.

I have seen people do this in the past and i don't believe anyone has ever managed to fix it on an official hard drive. If you have a hacked hard drive for the Xbox 360 you can just re do the hack here https://digiex.net/guides-reviews/c...b-sata-drive-work-xbox-360-xbox-360-slim.html that does not work on official hard rives however, only western digital drives.

 

[pogopat]

Problems started cos think I format drive when corrected to Xbox via transfer cable and only sees it as USB stick now.
Have read other posts about people doing same thing but doesn't make me feel less stupid.
Anyway I'll give your idea a try.
On pc it doesn't have partition 0 now.

 

[pogopat]

Think i'll have to buy another hdd because just cant get this to work.
Will keep it as a spare pc drive.

 

[Dark Scyth]

In my experiences of formatting my official 360 hard drives, I installed a Windows OS onto the HDD, Windows 7 to be exact, afterwards I put it into the 360 then it said "Unformatted Device" so after formatting it worked just fine. Of course if you formatted it to work via USB on the 360 you may want to format it and fill it completely up by copy and pasting a big file if you can (until it's full). So even if it's formatted it still might think it's a USB Device for 360 but if you fill it up with junk it should remove all traces of knowing that, then HOPEFULLY you can reformat the device for it as a hard drive.

One of the things that happened when trying to get a hard drive to work in my 360. It just wouldn't work and trying to format it in the 360 wouldn't work either, so I installed Windows 7 on it and the drive worked fine in the PC (It made my 360 extremely slow while plugged in, literally took 3 minutes for a game to boot and 5 minutes for the dashboard to even show), I put it back into the 360 and it showed the drive as if it was NEVER formatted on a PC, so I filled it with as many files as possible until it hit 0KB left, then put it in the 360 again and instead it showed up as unformatted device rather than still saying it was a 360 drive, after that I formatted and it worked just fine afterwards.

 

[pogopat]

I'll give it a go cos nothing to lose.
Xbox still see its as a USB. I'll post back after I've had a go. Fingers crossed.