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

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  1. kevinrs

    kevinrs New Member

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    I'm trying to add a hard drive to a 4 GB xbox slim. Using a WD3200BPVT, motherboard is intel DX58SO
    I'm not getting anything happening when I type hddhackr. I changed the bios setting to ide, then tried legacy.
    I boot from the flash drive and try to start hddhackr and nothing happens at all, after a few minutes I manually restart the computer.
    Is this what happens when the sata is incompatible? Is there a list of motherboards that do not work somewhere?
     
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    I see one intel board on that thread, guess I'll have to try on my sister's dell laptop tomorrow. Part of my question was is that the normal failure mode? where the hddhackr program does nothing at all.
     
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    Has anyone successfully done this using VMWare on a mac? I've been trying for days.
     
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    I have followed the tutorial up till it says : Do you want to flash XBOX360 compatible firmware (y/n) ? I click y for yes then it says >western ditigital vendor intro failed on port 0x01f0
    I saw somone say somewhere that if this happends remove the harddrive then put it back in .
    This seems to move me on a step as then it says in green; Sectors 16-22 written successfully
    Then seconds later in RED it says Cant save drive firmware for later restore! drq Error :0x0815 .... This is where im stuck .
    Any help is much appreciated .
     
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    I had one of those additional HD you can buy from microsoft which come in the shell for xbox360. I accidentally formatted it when I connected it to the front of the xbox. Now i tried using hddhackr v 1.3 to flash the 320BIN file on to the HD. I was able to do everything but then it said "Can't save drive firmware for later restore! DRQ error: 0x0815". My guess is because i am using a 320GB bin file meant for WD HD's but the HD that was inside the shell was a hitachi one. Is there a firmware for hitachi drives or do i have to buy a WD drive?

    I am running hddhackr off of a sanisk cruzer micro USB with 4GB capacity which I believe is fat32. The Hitachi HD is also functioning because if i plug it into a HD it recognizes it as a 320gb HD with FAT32 format.
     
  8. Harlock

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    please some help needed!

    where the step ENTER THE FILE NAME FOR SECTOR 16-22 SHOULD BE HDDSS.BIN, THE MESSAGE SAYS TO ME THAT HDDSS.BIN ISNT PRESENT EVEN THOUGH I FOLLOWED EVERY STEP.COULD SOMEONE PROVIDE SOME SOLUTIONS?
    THAN YOU IN ADVANCE!
     
  9. Harlock

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    i forgot to mention that my hdd is a hitachi 320gb if thats of any help!
     
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    You can try this.
    HDDHackr still doesn't work for me, can i try anything else?
    You can have a look at Harcrofts tutorial on How to Flash Your HDDSS.bin in Windows. Read the tutorial very carefully and do so at your
     
  11. Harlock

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    it didnt work ,but anyway thank you for your willingness to help!
    :)
     
  12. abenia

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    I used this tutorial with a Western Digital Blue WD3200BPVT-75JJ5T0

    It workded like charm!!!
    Just had to manually format the drive from the xbox and put in the console's serial id...
    Pum!! 293gb available! =D
     
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    Updated the first post to include a download for HddHackr 1.40:

    * Updated SATA and PATA controller list
    * Added support for 320GB and 500GB hard drives (HDDSS.BIN required)
    * Added support to adjust Idle Timer (IntelliPark)
    * Confirmed HddHacker supports hard drives manufactured till 2013

    If anyone is having problems still be sure to try the latest version.

    Download HddHackr v1.40 Build 20130303
     
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    Hello!
    I lost my original undo.bin.
    My HDD: wd6400bpvt-16hxzt1

    Please, help me. :(
     
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    You can look through these. If you can't find the exact file, you can use a recovery software like recuva to try to recover the file. Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File and Disk Recovery - Free Download
     
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    Thank you!
    Other ways exist?
     
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    You can make a request here: Requests and if someone has it they can post it.
     
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    I found this. I thinked this actual for my HDD too.
     
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    УРА ! :D I made it.
     

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