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

Hello there,

So I got three Xbox 360, one Resident Evil 5 Elite and two S 250GB. I would like to upgrade my elite with 500GB and I have two questions.

The first one is the main one. Can my account get banned for switching to the bigger Hard Drive? I really would not like to risk by any means...

The second one. Is there a way to back up all my games and everything else from my previous HDD and move to the new 500GB one?

I found WD Scorpio Blue BPVT for pretty cheap with 100 health/performance and I would like to upgrade my Xbox with it.

Thanks!

 

After I accidentally formatted my official Xbox drive under Windows (destroying the Microsoft license on it), I decided to buy a 3200BEVT after seeing this tutorial.
I didn't think for a second that it would be a real pain to do this in 2022.

First I struggled to flash MS-DOS on my USB drives, none of them could do it, getting 'The media is write-protected'.
I had to dig through my old stuff to find an 2gb flash drive, which finally worked

Another problem I encountered was that my motherboard was not able to boot to the USB drive, it didn't see it at all. I spent hours in the BIOS, changing options, setting the SATA mode to Legacy, with no success (I guess this is a problm with all newer motherboards).
I had to use my mother's old Win 7 PC, which did the job!
Sometimes it helps to keep good old hardware...

Thanks man!

A note for anyone who wants to do this: Get yourself an old PC with an old USB stick, and make sure you rename HDDSSxxx.bin to HDDSS.bin.
Although it says so in the tutorial, I forgot to do it, and ended up with an error. It won't work if the .bin name is not HDDSS

 

Before I invest in parts is there a noticable performance difference between using an internal mechanical hard drive and an external usb thumb drive for loading games?

 

Hi, everything worked fine but when I created the partitions problems this happened, additionally two different Xbox 360’s don’t seem to detect the drive, it’s like nothing is connected at all, I really don’t know what to do.

 

So i used the WD diagnostic to wipe the drive, Installed the firmware, formatted it but when i installed it it dont show up. Its a 500gb lpvx. Do i need to redo it?

 

hi, thanks a lot for the tutorial, i was able to re create partition 0 with fatxplorer (made a misstakes while making a restore of the compatibility partition...used the 320GB of xplorer 360, as restore choice wasn't available i've choosen restore image, the partition 0 was gone...
seeing the price of actual wd500 i think i will replace it by the maximum size of 360 drive supported...will see this later.

 

Can you please add Western Digital BLACK HDD's to the HDDHACKER compatibility list 250gb , 320gb & 500gb , manufacture date of the drives was between 2010 to 2016 .

Today tested these 3 drives with HDDHACKER , on a 360E Winchester 2015 board & a 360E Corona V4 2014 & can confirm they are working perfectly , Xbox see's the drives & formats , then I used fatxplorer for partition 2 on the PC all working fine once installed back in the 360 .
At least now others will be not limited to just the WD BLUE .
Going to try this on the 360 Slim next .

Hope this helps others

 

WD2500BEKX - 250GB
WD3200BEKX - 320GB
WD5000BEKX - 500GB

I've got another coming once delivery arrives I'll check the model number first then confirm it's working if it's not on the list .

Just checked I've got a LPLX 500GB in transit, this is going in my own retail unit so I'll confirm if it works

 

I would like to add that I've gotten this to work with the WD5000BLHXSUN500G 10k drive (Oracle Sun branded).
HDDHACKR would not partition the drive however it was able to flash the firmware. I put it into the Xbox 360 and it worked after formatting it in the Xbox under Storage menu.

 

hi
i tried with a WD5000BPKX , no success so far (with the 500gb hddss.bin, with fatxplorer, no problem with a 320gb wd blue, but this one isn't seen by the console...will try to contact eaton just in case.

 

Sadly Ive run into a wall
HDD - WD5000BEVT - 500GB
Computer that I am trying to flash this on - MSI Wind U100 Netbook

Ive made sure that AHCI is disabled

This is as far as I get

 

You selected drive 1, there is no drive 1. Your HDD is at 0.

 

Managed to get the new drive working on the Xbox 360. However, still trying to figure out how to transfer partition 3 to the new drive. I keep running into issues, and the original Xbox 360 HDD isn't displaying data in partition 3. But when I check the FATXplorer it shows all the data. I tried many different ways of transferring the data but can't figure it out. How can I get the data transferred?

 

Can someone make me a drive I will send it to them I can’t get it to work it’s not compatible with my motherboard