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

[Rick]

skip the formatting and do this
flash the drive with hddhackr
transfer partition 2 with xplorer 360 extreme (run as admin)
format in xbox 360
copy game saves using the xplorer 360 320gb version (run as admin)

 

[twiddler]

It didn't show Partition 2, only 1 and 3. I'm wiping the HD right now, will take all night. I'll test in the morning and see how it goes.

 

[mrjrizz1]

hello everyone. im trying to set up my western digital 320g drive for my xbox slim. i followed all the steps and when i type in hddhackr it freezes. im trying it on a acer aspire 1 netbook and i have remove the original hdd and put in the wd hdd. i'm booting from flashdrive and it shows all my files on it. just when i type hddhackr the curser drops a line and freezes.

any help would be awesome.

 

[Rick]

Do you have any settings in the bios that say ahci,this also.

HDDHackr doesn't work for me:
99% of problems are caused by the SATA chipset on your motherboard or BIOS configurations such as Legacy IDE not been enabled, AHCI been enabled or Raid been active.

 

[mrjrizz1]

yup i changed the bios settings. sata mode is in ide

 

[Rick]

try the other version of hddhackr

 

[mrjrizz1]

ok reading that 1.24 seemed to work. will give it a shot.

 

[mrjrizz1]

no, didn't work.

 

[Rick]

Try recreating the dos on flash drive process,if it doesn't work after that try a different computer

 

[mrjrizz1]

ok thanks

 

[twiddler]

[SUB]I finally got the HD to working in my XBOX. After wiping (zeroing) all the data on the HD and running hddmakr it finally recognized my 320gb HD. It shows 300gb free space and i just use a flash drive to copy all my saves over from the old 20gb to the 320gb HD. So I guess if your having problems with your HD, trying using Active Killdisk to wipe the drive and try again, worked for me. [/SUB]

 

[Chris LeMeilleur]

Seriously, wtf.

I'm beyond irritated with this process. Guide seems accurate, but I can't get anything to work. I'm stuck just trying to get hddhackr to boot. Using 1.3 on a Windows 7 machine. I've tried multiple boot partitions and flash drives but I can't even get Dos to boot. Just a blank screen with a flashing cursor. Any help or ideas

 

[Rick]

did you change the boot device to your usb drive?

 

[Chris LeMeilleur]

did you change the boot device to your usb drive?

Alright, I finally tried it on an alternate computer using an alternate boot utility called "Rufus". I can easily get DOS to boot and run hddhackr.exe. I suppose I need to tweak my bios settings at home. This has become a bigger headache than expected, but still cheaper than the alternative and I'm making progress.

 

[Colin25]

Hi All, I have come across a small problem after the tutorial.....
Ran HDDHackr and flashed the drive, it didnt ask me to partition but i did it anyway
xbox slim will not recognise the HDD so can't format it

HDD is WD800BEVS and using 60GB hddss.bin

any help would be appreciated

 

[Rick]

Hi All, I have come across a small problem after the tutorial.....
Ran HDDHackr and flashed the drive, it didnt ask me to partition but i did it anyway
xbox slim will not recognise the HDD so can't format it

HDD is WD800BEVS and using 60GB hddss.bin

any help would be appreciated

Follow these steps
1.Undo the drive with hddhackr
2.Format to ntfs in windows disk management
3.Move your old undo file to a different folder
4.Hack the drive again using hddhackr,you can skip the partitioning part it does this automatically based on what some people post here

 

[Colin25]

Follow these steps
1.Undo the drive with hddhackr
2.Format to ntfs in windows disk management
3.Move your old undo file to a different folder
4.Hack the drive again using hddhackr,you can skip the partitioning part it does this automatically based on what some people post here

Thanks rick550 unfortunately i have overwritten my undo.bin (numbnuts I know) will the above still work??

 

[Rick]

Try using this first to recover the undo file. Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File and Disk Recovery - Free Download
This below could work also but with a risk.

I lost my undo.bin, do you have one i can use?

Using an Undo.bin from someone else is very risky, your drive must be the exact same as the drive the undo.bin is from, otherwise you risk bricking it. Member Robide has found a collection of undo.bin files for various drives: Download Western Digital Undo.bin collection.

 

[Colin25]

Result, xbox sees the drive, then formatted it took it back out partitioned and restored partition 2.

thanks for the prompt answers

 

[GEoMaNTiK]

Hey guys,

Awesome thread!!!

Just picked up a 360 Slim 4GB in Aus for $148.

Found an old 320GB Scorpio Blue from 2009 lying around.
Tried on one computer without AHCI option (old PC) with no success and then again on a new PC and all worked perfectly. Now have 300GB of goodness for use, much much better than just the 4GB.

Cheers!!!