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

macross said:
Hi, found this tutorial and I successfully modded a 250 BEVT.
Now, my 360 recognizes the drive and all seems good to go, but when I try to install games, it gives me disc dirty or unreadable disc errors.

However, it's not the dvd, it's the hard drive. Must be some error on it.
I formated the drive with the 360.
Installed game A. NO problems.
Install Game B. I will stop around 55% saying dvd disc read error. Cleaned disc, always gives error at the same point.
I deleted Game A, then installed game B. Works no problem. Then I'll try to install game A, but it will say read error!
So there's some write issue on the hard drive I'm assuming, maybe bad sectors?

Formating with the 360 didn't work, what should I try next, formating with the pc? Anything special I need to do? I assume a low level format to fat32 or someting? Do I need to reflash the HD to its original firmware first? Or just formating it with the existing 360 will work?
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Format with the xbox360 again.DO NOT FORMAT IN WINDOWS or the drive will corrupt.
if that doesn't work proceed below
1.undo the drive using the undo.bin
2.shut down computer then turn it back on and make sure its recognized as a western digital through hddhackr(dont flash it yet)
3.if it comes up western digital,move the undo.bin file to a different place and label it undo.old.bin. (if not,retry steps 1 and 2)
**optional(ONLY if it shows western digital)** you can use any hard drive formatter to format the drive.gparted live works good.
4.run hddhackr on the drive again(make sure to create the partitions when it asks) and it will create a new undo.bin(this is why it needs deleted or moved).
5.format in xbox 360 and it should work fine.connect to xbox live and get the latest update if you can.
 
Didn't catch your reply sooner, but this is what I did when I woke up this morning.
I took out the drive, restored it with the undo.bin
went into windows 7 64 bit, repartioned it and formated it to ntfs. ran a full disc sector scan, it found 111 bad sectors, repaired other stuff blah blah.
booted to dos, ran hddhackr again.
reflashed it to hitachi 250.bin, repartitioned it. 0/2/3
turned off computer, stuck it into the 360.
360 recognized drive, always had anyhow, 239 gigs free.
I reformated it anyways, cleared the cache.
installed Game A, worked fine as expected.
tried to install game B, failed at 55%
tried to install game C, failed at 49%

So at some specific point on the HD, it's not writing or giving errors. Formatting and marking bad sectors didn't seem to fix this. Does the 360 even have any disc check tools lol?

So what should I do now? it's a brand new drive. Pretty sure I flashed correctly and all that. Should I reflash to WD, then format as you suggested?
What should I format it to, fat32 I guess?

It's already on the latest update from xbox live. I'm 100% sure there's no problems with the game disc or dvd reader.

Maybe it's just a bad drive I dunno. Guess I'll rma it if can't get it to work. Anyone else ever get problems like this.
 
if there is bad sectors on the drive i recommend you to flash it back to western digital,then return it.

edit:when you receive a new one check for bad sectors.if its good then use hddhackr
 
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I got a 2nd drive already, I had ordered 2, was gonna give one to my brother. Wanted to make sure it's prob just a bad hd before I opened up the 2nd drive hehe.
Guess I'll hook up the new drive and check for bad sectors first this time.

Gotta flash back the old one and reformat to ntfs then return it hehe, don't want them finding xbox partitions on it lol.

update: stuck in 2nd drive, partitioned and formatted, no bad sectors found. Flashed and stuck into 360, working perfectly. I guess that first drive was broken. Had slow transfer speeds too when I tried to copy stuff to it. Oh well, RMA'd it, gotta pay for shipping how lame.
 
Hi,

I have succesfully flashed my 250gb scorpio blue hard disk.My xbox recognises the harddisk.
Restoring the partition 2 with xplorer360 worked fine for me, but when I tried to get the content folder on the harddisk, xplorer360 just keeps crashing. Ive tried on different computers, and Ive tried to do it 1 folder at the time. Even one File at the time keeps crashing, is there an alternative way???

thanks in advance

PS. Ive tried only on Windows7 64bit computers. Should i find a XP?
 
(insane nutter)
Now Download Xplorer 360 250gb Edition,https://digiex.net/attachments/down...-hddss_250gb-bin-xplorer360-250gb-edition.zip this works fine with Partition 3 on 250gig drives, however trying to modify anything on partition 0 or 2 will just corrupt the drive!! Trust me save yourself some time and don’t do it.

Also don’t use Xplorer 250gig edition on any other sized drive either, it will just corrupt the drive.

If you do corrupt you drive just connect it to your Xbox 360 and format it.

After you have restored any content you can now shut your pc down and put the 250gig drive in your 360’s drive enclosure, it might be an idea to test everything is working correctly before re assembling the enclosure.
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try that and run as admin
this may help also
I want to be able to drag and drop files with Xplorer 360?

UAC has to be switched off for this to work, simply running the program with admin rights doesn't work.
To do this in Windows 7 go to Control Panel\User Accounts and Family Safety\User Accounts and select "Change user account settings" Now slide down to never notify and hit ok. You might need to re start your pc for the changes to take effect. Remember to enable UAC again when you are finished.
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bug?

I made a backup of my 20gb standard disk with 360 xplorer on my pc and i have ordered a 250 WD disk.
the issue is that my box no longer can detect my standard 20gb drive.

I have seen lots of poor reviews about this hack and and with direct false information.
One of the reviews claimed that u could use any sata drive so i have had a Hitachi 160Gb drive connected to my box and im worried that i might have bricked my controllercard in my xbox.

Any ideas?
 
heddarn said:
I made a backup of my 20gb standard disk with 360 xplorer on my pc and i have ordered a 250 WD disk.
the issue is that my box no longer can detect my standard 20gb drive.
Any ideas?
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The poor reviews are from people that always buy something with a ms sticker and hate hackers.

The 20gb should be fine unless you formatted it or used disk management to mount the disk.
 
I have a request for help

I finished the guide just fine, but when I plugged my drive back into my xbox I got the right light on the lower right hand side of the front ring and an error 69 on the screen. so I figured that I would start over. I put the drive back in my computer and tried to run hddhackr on it again and get an error dumping sector 16 when it tries to flash the drive.

any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
undo the drive using the undo.bin
shutdown computer
delete undo.bin file
run hddhackr
it should work now
 
Thank you, Rick. Worked like a charm.
Just an FYI: On my Asus P5KPL board, I had to connect the drive to SATA 1 to flash.
 
Hello, need your help please
I have a hard WD3200BEKT (320 gig) flash at 250 for xbox360, determined by the normal 228, but the speed is very slow, copying discs, 30 minutes.
who does what will help? what are the ideas ...
undo.ini (WD3200BEKT) is lost, who have let please! robinzon@mksat.net

sorry for my english (google translate)
 
ROBBSH said:
Hello, need your help please
I have a hard WD3200BEKT (320 gig) flash at 250 for xbox360, determined by the normal 228, but the speed is very slow, copying discs, 30 minutes.
who does what will help? what are the ideas ...
undo.ini (WD3200BEKT) is lost, who have let please! robinzon@mksat.net

sorry for my english (google translate)
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use this Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File and Disk Recovery - Free Download to recover the file from your flash drive the file is undo.bin

do a deep scan also to find it.if you can't just hope someone will upload it some day
 
undo.ini different serial numbers?
Let my no, but there is a similar model from another source, it will work?
 
ROBBSH said:
undo.ini different serial numbers?
Let my no, but there is a similar model from another source, it will work?
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If it's the same exact model of the hard drive of the undo.BIN it will work.

There is no .INI file its .BIN file
 
Slm 1 tb go xbox360 hdd ? Dahİlİ

hddhacker ?
1 tb bİn ?

TeŞekkürler ( türkİye ) xbox360 jtag fsd rc 1.7
 
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