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

I flashed my w3200bekt but the option to create the partition did not show up, and I formated the hd on the xbox and apparently is working fine...so what is the utility to create the partition 0/2/3? I will have any problem for not doing this?

 

I think that was from the older version, but many users reported that 3 partitions do exist after using the new version of hddhackr so you will be fine.

 

will this hard drive work? i'm asking because it doesn't look like the one used in the tutorial. its a wd3200bpvt

 

Yes it will work.

 

Thanks Rick

 

Thank you for the very comprehensive reply. I tried using hddhackr and downloaded hddss.bin files for 60gb + 120gb drives but it wouldn't let me flash the drives.

I looked at the links you suggested and to be honest it looks way too complicated (scary too) for someone with my limited skills so I have bought a couple of 2.5" SATA to USB enclosures on ebay for £5 and will format the 2 drives for use as external PC drives (the 120gb is a Fujitsu drive too).

I found your original tutorial and hddhackr easy to use (at least as far as it would let me go with a non WD drive) and as I now have 2 empty xbox 360 enclosures I will try to buy 2 WD Scorpio drives on ebay and try again.

I will post again when I have upgraded the Xbox drives as I am confident it will be a success.

 

Hey! another noob here. I have a 320gb Hard drive and i want to use it on my xbox 360 slim. Anyone know how i can format it to use.

 

If its a western digital hard drive then follow the directions in the first post, if not you are out of luck.

 

Xplorer360

First, I would like to thank everybody who work on this tutorial. I receive my 320 GB WD HDD one hour ago, followed instructions and everything went fine! I am now trying to get the stuff from my 20 GB HDD to my PC in order to load it onto my newly hacked 320 GB HDD. What happens is I do not have the option to backup or restore partition. I can only backup or restore image.

Also.. I do not see any of my data on partition 0 and partition 3..

Can I just backup the image of the whole HDD and restore it the new?

Thank you in advance.

 

There are 2 versions you need to use. Xplorer 360 extreme is for copying data from the 20gb drive and backing up the partition 2, this can be also used to restore partition 2 to any drive size.

The other version xplorer 360 320gb version is only to be used for 320gb drives.

 

This is what I just had figured out before reading you reply! Thanks to you anyway!
This forum is a great help!!!

 

everything is going smoothly until i get to the part that says "enter the file name for sector 16-22". I type HDDSS.BIN exactly how i named the bin file and then it says "File HDDSS.BIN is not present!" Why is it telling me that?

 

Hello, I read many pages of this thread but none of them solved one question I have, I did this tutorial, restored partition 2 but when I'm plugging back on my 360 it doesn't recognize the HD. I tried to use MHDD and set the native LBA adress and it seems that it is fine, but when I plug back in the 360 it doesn't recognize...

 

Hi Insanenutter, I managed to pick up 2 WD Scorpio blue drives 120gb & 250gb on ebay and flashed them both following your tutorial using HDDhackr.

I did the 120gb first and it was perfect and done in under 5 mins (including opening up the Dell and disconnecting the 3.5" drives), I then made a newb mistake on the 250gb and flashed it with the 120gb hddss.bin and didn't realise until I reassembled the drive shell and put it on the Xbox 360.

About 20 minutes later after an undo and re-flash I now have 2 working Xbox 360 drives which I then formatted on the consoles using their console serial numbers.

As the boys had originally used a transfer cable and a Xport 360 dock to corrupt the official drives I then used the supplied Xport 360 software to restore partiton 2 and transfer the content and that worked fine too.

I also managed to sell the Fujitsu 60gb & 120gb drives formatted NTFS on ebay and get about 70% of my costs back.

My grandson is thrilled as he has ended up with a 250gb instead of a 60gb and now thinks I am a a genius but I know that it is you that deserves that accolade.

I can't thank you enough for the brilliant and easy to follow guide.

Cheers

 

Hey i recently flashed a 250gb WD hard drive with this method and it worked, but its been about 4-5 days now since i last did it and now my xbox360 can't read my hard drive any more. My xbox cant download items to the hard drive, or access any content within the hard drive, plus when i try log onto a profile with the hard drive in there my Xbox just freezes and crashes but when i take the drive out it works perfectly fine, does anyone know why this is happening?

 

That sounds like corruption on the HDD to be honest. If you are willing, try reformatting it on the xbox itself via device options under storage. If that fixes it viola!

If you are not willing to try that, try deleting your profile only from the HDD, delete system cache 2x, and reboot.

Once back up, redownload your profile, best of luck

 

The only solution I found was to use party buffalo to take all the data from the xbox HDD on my PC and do the whole process with the xbox HDD again, but I don't feel like doing this.
Does anybody got the same problem as me ?
Thanks.