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

[Lasarius]

does not work with WD Scorpio Black 250GB BJKT

Nevermind it does work had to change the sata port i used

 

[sussybaka]

Can someone help me? Im tryining to play the jsrf and sega gt 2002 combo disc, but i didn't have an hdd, so i used hddhackr, but the xbox gives me an error that says to redownload the game, and i have read that it may be because an unofficial hdd, can someone please help me?

 

[InsaneNutter]

Did you restore partition 2 as instructed in this guide? that contains the Xbox emulator required to play these games on the Xbox 360.

If so you probably also need to update the emulator with the update here: https://digiex.net/threads/xbox-360-backwards-compatibility-update-november-2007.8370/

 

[Eaton]

Hi everyone, I have some big news to share! I have just released Xbox 360 HDD Maker - a new/free FATXplorer tool designed to modify the firmware of Western Digital HDDs to make them Xbox 360 retail-compatible.

Xbox 360 HDD Maker is a full HDDHackr replacement that works on Windows desktop and even over USB! This should be a massive help to everyone in this thread.

Full information is here. If you have any issues with it, feel free to message me directly and I can try to help.

 

[InsaneNutter]

That's some impressive work @Eaton, congrats on the release.

It's great to see a modern tool making this process possible on current hardware in 2024, especially over usb! the hardest part I suspect will be finding a drive that was manufactured before 2020.

 

[Eaton]

I suspect will be finding a drive that was manufactured before 2020.

There should be plenty out there. For 2.5" drives there may be some flexibility around the dates. We'll have to see what users report.

 

[O_megaYT]

There should be plenty out there. For 2.5" drives there may be some flexibility around the dates. We'll have to see what users report.

I have been trying to use my hardrive but i think it is not an official harddrive... do i need an official one to mount the partition? I installed the partition 2 and Xplorer extreme and both applications seem to be working, i dont have an official transfer cable i got a sata to usb connector cable that seems to work, but it says there is no FATX harddrive connected.

 

[coltrain]

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)

do you have the undo.bin for this drive modle

 

[Eaton]

You can now hack SSDs!