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

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  1. mranjobal

    mranjobal New Member

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    Little probleme wiht my 250g HDD

    The problems is that my 360 detectecs my new WD 250gig but after i install like 3 games on it , its giving me errors , Disc cant be read and after that in memory it shows the games are corrupted i need to shut down the 360 and everything gets back too normal but i cant install more games ....i di everything in the guide buti migth miss something.


    Thank you for your help
     
  2. mranjobal

    mranjobal New Member

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    What i have its a WD Scorpio Series BEVS 250GIG , I Format twice in the 360 but its still giving me the same error after that i install 2-3 games , i get the yellow icons..8o|, whta i do is remove the HDD and my stuff are correct but cant install more stuff, get DVD dirty....
     
  3. InsaneNutter

    InsaneNutter Resident Nutter Staff Member

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    If you format your drive then install a game that failed before does it then install ok?

    From what your saying it sounds like the discs of some of the games you are trying to install are damaged, I installed every game i own and found one of my games had a small scratch on it, the game would play fine but failed to install about half way through. I borrowed the game off a friend, installed his copy which installed perfectly now i can play from the hard drive with my copy of the game in the console.
     
  4. kikob

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    I don't have this setting on the bios of my MB
     
  5. glg

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    i have gone into disc manager and at the bottom of the page wd drive is listed as disc 2 basic 232.88 gb online but at the top of the page i get a list of the drives but the wd is not listed my two IDE hard drives. Could this have a bearing on the problem? In my computer the wd is not shown at all.
     
  6. Amenist

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    I'm having the same problem as glg

    Upon selecting f for flash in the prompt I get a message stating:

    "Enter the file name for sector 16-22 (e.g. HDDS.BIN)."

    Any clue what could be wrong? I plugged it into a laptops SATA port.

    It's the same as the first screenshot glg has of the 3.
     
  7. mranjobal

    mranjobal New Member

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    I will try with more games , i remember installing many games on my old 120GIg and never had any problemes....do i need to clear the cache?

    Tx again
     
  8. wacky maky

    wacky maky New Member

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    Hi,

    I have bought the exact same hard drive as you pictured (Insane Nutter).
    I follow all of your steps to the letter, but when i get into the dosprompt screen and enter "hddhackr" and then press eneter,
    i just get a flashing underscore... that just stays there forever.

    I'm using a laptop (Acer 8930G) and before you ask yes i am using the internal connections :)

    I'd love to get this working and i'd really appreciate any help!

    Many Thanks,

    James
     
  9. Burn Notice

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    Thank you InsaneNutter your tutorial are word a lot for every one. Everything working so smooth thanks again.
     
  10. InsaneNutter

    InsaneNutter Resident Nutter Staff Member

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    If you have an option for AHCI in your bios disable it, it could also be the sata chipset in your laptop is not compatible although it is a lot more compatible than it used to be.

    Im not an expert with Hddhackr, but for me AHCI caused any problems I had. You might also want to check out the official hddhack thread on Xbox Hacker if your lucky one of the developers might be able to help you a bit more than I can if you haven't managed to get it working yet.
     
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  11. Samokee

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    Hey guys, I know someone said that doing this won't get you banned but does anyone know this for sure? I have the WD2500BEVT HD in my laptop (which I've been meaning to upgrade HDs anyways) and even a torx T6 screwdriver but I really don't want to get banned.
     
  12. prle

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    Hello to all.I've been trying to hack my scorpio 250GB to work on my x360.Well it is all good,until I get to the part where I'm supposed to restore my profiles...I have a problem because if I change the partition 3 it will corrupt it,and the saves are all on the partition 3...
    simply put: how do I restore my save games?

    btw. i tried the tutorial for this and it corrupted my hdd every time...
    THANKS IN ADVANCE...
     
  13. InsaneNutter

    InsaneNutter Resident Nutter Staff Member

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    You will not get banned, at worse microsoft might disable the hard drive like what happend with the datel memory cards, its unlikely but there is always a chance.

    Even if it did happen im sure they would be a work around released asap.

    To restore content to the 250gig drive close xplorer extreme and load the 250gb xplorer up, only touch partition 3 in xplorer 250gb and nothing will corrupt.
     
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  14. Samokee

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    Thanks a lot...But,if you believe me,I figured it out about 10mins after posting a question..:D

    Thanks anyway....
    I spent 5 hrs yesterday trying to solve what is going on....:D
     
  16. denteonur

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    please help me how can I flash my disk when i get to f i hit enter and get a message that asks me to enter file name for sector 16-22 e.g hddss.bin, this file is on my stick so type this in and get another message that tell me that that hddss.bin is not present

    I use 250 gb western digital wd 2500bevt
    4gb usb flash disk
     
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    when i get to f i hit enter and get a message that asks me to enter file name for sector 16-22 e.g hddss.bin, this file is on my stick so type this in and get another message that tell me that that hddss.bin is not present

    I use wd2500bevt
    4gb usb flash disk
     
  18. angie

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    HI do i have to use an WD hdd?? the only drive i got is an seagate 250
    unless i go out and buy a new WD isnt there a way to use the seagate i have? please thanks!(H)
     
  19. Hoffman

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    For people who carnt find HDDSS.BIN did you extract the zip file and rename it to HDDSS.BIN?

    Yes it has to be one of the supported WD drives.
     
  20. angie

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    being blonde could u link me some drives that would work from say pc world? allso do the drives have to be 250 gig? or can we use an 500gig?
    because if i have to go out and buy one i may as well get a 500 for an extra £20 ?|-)
     
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