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

Dark Scyth said:
I don't think it would really matter if I posted them anyways because its signed to my profile (emulator files) (I think anyways). If that isn't the case though then i'll post my emulator files (if I get the ok) and after I get my 360 back (let someone borrow, should get it back soon though).
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The emulator is not locked to anything, not even the original hard drive that it is on.You will likely have to dump your entire partition 2 for it to be any good, that only contains the emulator + avatars so i see no problems in doing so.
 
I'm trying to flash my 250 gig hdd with hddhackr. I do everything correctly, I have the cables disconnected from my computer hard drive, but every time I try to flash the firmware, it says the sectors 16-22 rewritten successfully, but it always says write protect error writing drive C, and it says abort, retry, or fail. I dont want to fuck anything up. (I tried both manual and automatic commands.) When I chose fail it said "cant open undo.bin for binary writing"
 
I presume your booting off the USB drive?

It sounds like your USB drive is write protected, some drive have a little switch on them to write protect them. Make sure you have not accidentally flipped this switch.

From what you say your drive has been hacked already so im not sure if you would actually be able to save an undo.bin now. this is only needed if you want to flash the drive back to normal and use it as a drive in windows, not something I think a lot of people plan to do anyway.
 
Great tut just flashed a WD BEVSTRL1 everything went fine installed a few games etc the only game i have a question about is battlefield bad co 2 its very glitchy and I'm wondering if it is the game or the hd not keeping up (since its 8mb cache sata1 etc) anyone else use this drive? If so how is it going?


*edit come to find out the servers have been laggy just played a couple games lag free great hd and the price is right at $50 in my area
 
The hard drive is still shows up as the original bevt. There is no write protect switch on my usb.
 
I used a floppy and it said success, so I restart for changes to take effect, it says hitachi now, but I put it in my 360 and it says no storage devices found. What happened...
 
Alright nevermind. The cables weren't secure enough, so I restarted and bam it showed up. Haha.
 
just want to ask , can I use 320GB (WD32000BEVT) 5400/SATA/8MB using 250 hddss.bin
 
so what im hearing is. is that i just bought a 250 gb seagate 2.5 laptop hard drive for no reason. because i cant format it to work for xbox 360. . .
 
deathgrin said:
so what im hearing is. is that i just bought a 250 gb seagate 2.5 laptop hard drive for no reason. because i cant format it to work for xbox 360. . .
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Unfortunately, yes.

Hddhackr works with the following Western Digital Drives:

- WD Scorpio Series BEVS/BEAS
- WD Scorpio Blue Series BEVS/BEVT
- WD Scorpio Black Series BEKT/BJKT
- WD VelociRaptor Series
 
InsaneNutter said:
Unfortunately, yes.

Hddhackr works with the following Western Digital Drives:

- WD Scorpio Series BEVS/BEAS
- WD Scorpio Blue Series BEVS/BEVT
- WD Scorpio Black Series BEKT/BJKT
- WD VelociRaptor Series
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well i was reading this other post on a different site and this guy was saying that you can pull the serial data and stuff off of my seagate hard dirve, and then use windows to format the drive and create the partitions and stuff for the xbox to read it. but its all done manually
 
I've Never heard of anyone doing that before and creating a drive that will actually work in the 360.

Got a link to that?
 
Hey guys, I have an odd issue.

I got the drive flashed no problem, even transfered files with no issues. Once I installed the drive to the 360 I keep getting an Update loop. I'm using a Scorpio Black BEKT 250.

After 2 or 3 back to back updates, I am able to view the dashboard but I cannot play any of my games. When I try to play from a disc I get the cannot read disc error. It only happens when I have the hdd connected. I have even tried formating the drive and going from there with no luck.

Any ideas?

Edit: I tried a reflash of the HDD, I have been able to get some games to play now. But I am still having problems with Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST and Halo 3 multiplayer disc. Whenever I load these with the hdd connected I get the "unable to read disc" error.
 
eXcali said:
Hey guys, I have an odd issue.

Once I installed the drive to the 360 I keep getting an Update loop. I'm using a Scorpio Black BEKT 250.
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I think the drive is hacked fine, do you have the latest system update on your console? if not download it from here and install it on your console.


deathgrin said:
Xbox 360 Hard Drive Upgrade - ivc wiki thats the link to what i was reading. but im kind of a newb to this hard drive flashin stuff. so i more than likely read it wrong. thank you for replying and helping insane nutter:)
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Sadly the end result of that will be the same as this tutorial, you can still only use compatible Western Digital harddrives.
 
I'm having an issue flashing the security sector to my drive. it's a WD2500BEVS, from my hp laptop that semi-died :D but the drive works perfectly fine.


i dumped the security sector from my 120GB 360 drive, and that went on the WD drive fine, but i'm pretty sure that'd only make it a 120GB drive again. i've seen a few people with this problem, and don't know if they've fixed it. i restored the original firmware to the WD drive.
the drive is connected internally, and i unplugged everything else.

nevermind, got it! hopefully for anyone having those errors, they can just restore the old firmware, turn off your computer, unplug the power from the drive, plug it back in, turn the computer on, and reflash. for some reason restoring the firmware once didn't do it, but it worked perfectly the 2nd time.
 
InsaneNutter said:
I think the drive is hacked fine, do you have the latest system update on your console? if not download it from here and install it on your console.
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Yep, I have the latest updates, I've even tried to reapply that update but I couldn't even get it to load the update from USB or CD.

I have had some success with getting those games to load, it takes a few tries loading them. It's about 1 out of 5 attempts and it will finally load.
 
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