Rick
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Maybe the disc is scratched? Mine plays fine with my hacked drive.
Hack a 250gb, 320gb or 500gb Sata harddrive to work in the Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 Slim
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Maybe the disc is scratched? Mine plays fine with my hacked drive.
This guide is decent but you make it sound like the switch from AHCI to ATA is as nonchalante as changing the boot order in the BIOS. It isn't, and requires you to do a complete reformat of the boot drive of whatever system you're using to format the XBOX drive. Major fail...XBOX hackers beware of this!
Rick
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This is false, all you do is change it back to the original setting.The first part for flashing requires you to change that setting, the rest doesn't matter.
InsaneNutter
Resident Nutter
You change it, hack the drive and change it back... common sense i would have thought?
Hows your OS going to know you ever changed it? even if you did try boot the OS after changing it, its no big deal, change it back and it will boot fine.
I can only presume you figured that you needed AHCI disabled to restore partition 2 / files in windows.
Keith Midwinter
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Hddhackr error on Scropion Black.
Hi,
I purchased a WD Scorpio WD320BEKT-60PVMT0 Manufactured Sept 4, 2011.
I have tried several versions of hddhackr and controllers with the similar results, but I will explain the issue.
I boot from USB.
I run the hddhackr v1.30.
I choose the SATA channel that the drive is on.
I hit F to flash.
I select the hddss320.bin file downloaded from this thread.
I choose a file name for the backup.
I get "Warning: LBA seems to be an unsupported XBOX360 value. Please contact the authors."
Also I tried with a velociraptor and the hddss250 and that works fine in the xbox, but needed an external power supply.
I can get the extact messages if you haven't seen these before.
I have also tried several motherboards, one being a P5N-D and external cards, they all detect the same and give the same warnings.
The drive is not detected by a brand new sbox 360 S 4gb.
Any thoughts?
Hi,
I purchased a WD Scorpio WD320BEKT-60PVMT0 Manufactured Sept 4, 2011.
I have tried several versions of hddhackr and controllers with the similar results, but I will explain the issue.
I boot from USB.
I run the hddhackr v1.30.
I choose the SATA channel that the drive is on.
I hit F to flash.
I select the hddss320.bin file downloaded from this thread.
I choose a file name for the backup.
I get "Warning: LBA seems to be an unsupported XBOX360 value. Please contact the authors."
Also I tried with a velociraptor and the hddss250 and that works fine in the xbox, but needed an external power supply.
I can get the extact messages if you haven't seen these before.
I have also tried several motherboards, one being a P5N-D and external cards, they all detect the same and give the same warnings.
The drive is not detected by a brand new sbox 360 S 4gb.
Any thoughts?
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Rick
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In the bios what is the drive detected as?
You didn't follow the instructions.
Did you mean the WD3200BEKT? That's what I have.
I am not an advanced computer user, yet I followed the instructions and found the process easier that it actually looks.
The process worked flawlessly for me with the WD3200BEKT. Here's what you did different than me
NOTE: I got the LBA warning also (IDK why), disregarded it, then formatted in the xbox and everything worked fine.
1) You didn't you change the hddss320.bin to hddss.bin per the instructions.
2) You didn't partition the hard drive.
catnamedog
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Hi
Well, it went like a dream for me. a couple of mistakes I made; forgot to rename the hddss_250.bin to hdss.bin, after writing the xb360 sectors onto the drive, I tried to use the MS transfer cable to copy the old 20Gb contents onto the new 250Gb drive. Rubbish!
What was successful was an 8Gd (max readable on my XB360) memory stick. I did it this way: 1. put the old 20Gb drive in and MOVED as much as possible onto the stick. After that was done, I switched the XB off and swapped the HDD for the new 250Gd drive. I then moved the data on the stick onto the HDD. I MOVED instead of COPIED the data so that I could actually see what had been shifted over from the old 20Gd drive. The only file that I couldn't move was the Sports 2 HDD loading. I actually own the legit game, but my profile didn't download fully.
Any way, it was a brilliant article, and a piece of cake to do, so thanks to Insane!!
Well, it went like a dream for me. a couple of mistakes I made; forgot to rename the hddss_250.bin to hdss.bin, after writing the xb360 sectors onto the drive, I tried to use the MS transfer cable to copy the old 20Gb contents onto the new 250Gb drive. Rubbish!
What was successful was an 8Gd (max readable on my XB360) memory stick. I did it this way: 1. put the old 20Gb drive in and MOVED as much as possible onto the stick. After that was done, I switched the XB off and swapped the HDD for the new 250Gd drive. I then moved the data on the stick onto the HDD. I MOVED instead of COPIED the data so that I could actually see what had been shifted over from the old 20Gd drive. The only file that I couldn't move was the Sports 2 HDD loading. I actually own the legit game, but my profile didn't download fully.
Any way, it was a brilliant article, and a piece of cake to do, so thanks to Insane!!
Sclariqrevk
Member
I finally got a chance to try out the game Halo 2 on the hacked drive on my friend's system (who I did it for and I remembered to ask to try it while he was around) and it still had the "tin" sound. it seems to only affect voice clips and most SFX. things like BGM and cinematics (including voice acting in the cinematics) aren't affected
Shinyflint
Member
Very nice guide! If this would've been out a year and a half ago I would've done that instead of an external HDD.
Harcroft
Addict
Look at the first post, this thread has been here since 2009, and HDDhacker is just as old, if not older. Back then it was only WD BEVS drives though.
Managed to get mine going on a WD3200BEVT by plugging it into an Acer Laptop instead of taking apart my desktop PC, but I'm having a little difficulty getting the XBox originals to work properly (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)...because I don't have the transfer cable yet. Was able to download previous XBox live purchases to it (Marvel vs. Capcom 2), will try a disc based game next.
Rick
Veteran
Did you complete this step?
https://download.digiex.net/static/users/insanenutter/guides/360hddhack/xplorer4.jpg
InsaneNutter
Resident Nutter
I would guess not as he hacked a drive with a laptop, meaning he can likely not have the drive with windows installed on and the 360 hard drive connected at the same time. Meaning the backwards compatibility partition can not be restored.
If thats what you have done then that is why old xbox games do not work.
Yeah, I didn't run Xplorer360, because for whatever reasons I thought that I would have to connect my Windows PC to the 360 hard drive via the official transfer cable. When you were transferring stuff to the larger hard drive, you connected via the internal connections, right? Actually, in the off-hand chance that I really don't feel like taking my desktop PC apart, has anyone actually done this with a hard drive enclosure instead, using a USB connection?
Rick
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You can use a hard drive enclosure, or use the internal connections.
SUCCESS! I was having issues with my enclosure (was originally intended for a 3.5" drive), but I was able to cannibalize the SATA cable from it. From there, it took me a while to figure out Xbox Explorer, but it worked after I formatted the 320 GB hard drive on the Xbox 360 and ran Explorer again. Just got my old school copy of GTA: San Andreas working. Thanks again!
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