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

Try this. Use this tool in this thread to test/wipe the drive. Data Lifeguard Diagnostic For Western Digital Drives

 

This thread has been great -- I'd had a compatible 250GB WD drive siting around for a while but never got around to upgrading the 360 Slim.

I was able to successfully hack the 250GB drive and formatted it in the Xbox however when tried to transfer my save games/downloads and copy partition 2 over I didn't understand the instruction to "dump" Partition 3 so I just used the "Back-up image" function to backup the 20GB and restored that to the hacked 250GB drive.

When I reattached the hacked drive, the Xbox, the unit wasn't able to see the hacked drive anymore.

Sorry if 'm being a newb, how can this be fixed and how do I move partition 3 over?

 

if i use western digital blue 750gb with full size ? or impossilble now ? what is max size for use

 

You can use the 750. But only 500gb will be usable on the xbox 360. Keep your undo file so you can revert the drive back to 750gb.(it won't work on the xbox then)

 

Hi to all,
Does anyone successfully formated WD5000LPVX? I'm going to buy it, but as I see from previous post, there are some trouble with this disk drive.

 

Undo the drive with hddhackr then re-hack it. Copy the folders from the 20gb drive to the 250gb using xplorer 250gb edition.

 

Hi,

I have a problem with WD5000LPVX hdd, the same problem as Diogo Salazar have, flashed HDDSS500.bin using HDDHACKR 1.40 everything was fine but the Xbox 360 does not want to recognize it.
I've tried all sorts of things, undo and reflash many times, test and wipe with Data Lifeguard Diagnostic, I have changed sata cable and port, i tried with creating partition in hddhackr and without creating partition, I tried it on three different Xbox but still the same thing.
It is interesting that 2 months ago i have flashed two WD5000LPVX drives and everything worked as it should, I really do not know what is with this one, no matter what i do Xbox360 does not detect it.

Thanks

 

Hi there, I restored the original firmware, ran the full test with no errors and then wiped the disk. Tried it all again using hddhackr 1.40 and the 500GB firmware, no luck....
I am available to assist with testing in case that is needed. Let me know.

Cheers.

 

I found out some pc's laptops with ddr3 ram don't work. I tried my pc and laptop and neither worked. So then I tried my dell ddr2 pc and it worked fine.

 

Hi,

It seems that not all LPVX drives will work. I successfully flashed WD5000LPVX-00V0TT0 and everything is working ok, but WD5000LPVX-08V0TT5 Xbox 360 does not want to recognize no matter what.

 

Hi,

I am available to assist with diagnosing in order to make that model supported.

 

480?

I flashed the same drive and did everything right and my drive size is 460.....plz tell me that was mis-typed. Those 20 extra gigabytes that I could possibly be missing is a disappointment.

 

This is normal for all hard drives.

 

I too can confirm this model "NOT" working WD5000LPVX-08V0T

 

I had a spare WD3200BEKT so I thought I'd upgrade my 250. I flashed it with Hddhackr 1.40 and the 320GB sector which was successful. I went ahead and put the 320GB in the Slim declined the title update and reformatted 304GB. At this point I thought I was good.

I hooked the 320GB to my PC and started Xplorer360 320gb edition in admin mode. But I kept getting this error. "Could not find a FATX drive to open!" I did this in AHCI and IDE mode

Mind you, I backed up my 250GB with the 250 xplorer version. Is my only option of transferring files 250GB to a 32GB Flash back to the 320GB?

 

Try using the create partitions option in hddhackr. Then try using xplorer 360 320gb version again.

 

Thanks, this worked. I am copying files from PC to UP HDD. Now I have to youtube how to remove old HDD from the slim casing.

 

anyone figure out the issue with WD5000LPVX-08V0T ? im so upset that i cant get it to work. ive done everything from using HDDHACKR to flash the .bin and creating the partition to undoing everything and using the disc diagnostic to test and write zeros to the disk. and manually flashing the bin using a hex editor. nothing works. so sad. any advice crew?

i dont receive any errors during the processes, the xbox just doesnt see the drive.

 

Is there any other bios settings you can change?