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

Rick said:
Yes.
No one has been blocked or banned from xbox live since this has been posted in 2009. I don't think microsoft can detect the difference between these hacked drives and microsoft branded drives.
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Thanks for your help. I will star now to make the HDD, then I will post the results.

I don't have to make any partition because of the size, correct? I do all the tutorial, and then by default the XBOX will assume that is a 60 GB HDD, instead of an 80GB correct?
 
kurushi said:
Thanks for your help. I will star now to make the HDD, the I will post the results.

I don't to make any partition because of the size, correct? I do all the tutorial, and then by default the XBOX will assume that is a 60 GB HDD, instead of an 80GB correct?
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I have recently edited the tutorial saying that the partitioning is done automatic with the latest version. It will be a 60gb drive to the xbox 360.
 
How can I backup to my new hack HDD, my profiles, saves, arcade games, demos, dlc and videos of my old "original" HDD.

I don't understand what the tutorial means...
 
kurushi said:
How can I backup to my new hack HDD, my profiles, saves, arcade games, demos, dlc and videos of my old "original" HDD.

I don't understand what the tutorial means...
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You can connect it with any of these.Transfer cable, using a sata connection, sata to usb cable with power adapter.If you don't have any of those you can use the original hard drive and a usb drive to transfer the content using the xbox 360.
 
akaHarpoon said:
Ok great yes i had downloaded that earlier but i never used the advanced feature to wipe the drive by writing zeros to it. I will tear my laptop apart once more to restore the wd file then run the advanced diagnostics.
I will keep you posted on my results. Thanks once again for the help you are giving. Very much appreciated.
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Yes success!!! Xbox found the drive and formatted it. Thank you so much for all your help.
 
I reboot computer and the PC does see the HDD as a USB removable device (computer even shown it as a Western Digital 320 GB).

So any suggestions ?
 
not sure where the rest of what i post went.

so here is what happened.

I got a friends laptop, and i have a 320 gb BEVT WD hard drive. I put the hddsbin file, and hddhackr on a bootable DOS flash drive, I was able to boot into dos and hddhackr did work. i switched in BIOS to ATA and it found a HDD. unfortunately it is the hard drive that is inside the laptop (and it is hard to get to the hdd). so I have to have the WD320 HDD set up using a SATA to USB adapter.

IN hddhackr when the hdd comes up thats NOT the western digital one, it gives me 3 choices under neath (showing random hexidecimal).
would one of the 3 hexidecimal choices be the hdd I want? (or would all 3 choices be the same hard drive thats inside the laptop. to make sure the serial number that comes up on the screen and the serial number that comes up on the wd320 DID not match)

(when i rebootthe computer and plug the adapter in with the WD320 hooked up, my computer DOES see it. )

so any ideas?
 
It has to be internally mounted to work. It won't work with a sata to usb adapter.Trying this with the wrong drive could format the os & files on the hdd.
 
Thank you rick and insanenutter ! Ive done it with a WD3200BPVT. No problems whatsoever but when I turned the xbox on I formatted the drive and i had an update to do 1 day after but everything works fine because of your great help ! Thank you !
 
Hello everyone and I am so sorry but I tried to read as many threads, questions and replies as I possibly could before my eyes went buggy. All I want to do is create a new drive and plop it in the Xbox 360 slim. There is nothing for me to transfer, memory wise, since my other drive crashed. I have the Western Digital drive (WD Scorpio Blue 250G WD2500BEVT). I created the bootable media which has just the three items listed on the thumb drive. Now in lies my problem; everytime I boot to the USB drive, it does come up and I am allowed to type in hddhackr at the command prompt. It will either sit there and do nothing or goes to another command prompt. I have tried several different laptops (HP 8510, 6320, 8560 and even a tower all with the same results. I checked the BIOS settings over and over on each. I re-created the bootable media. I checked to make sure the sata cable was in either port 0 or 1, even tried others. When trying it in the laptops, the original hard drive was re-moved and the new drive installed. What in the world am I doing wrong. Everyone keeps saying how easy this is but obviously no one realizes what kind of luck I have...ugh!
 
Hi guys, I'm having some trouble getting my 360s to recognize my newly flashed WD3200bpvt. The first time I flashed it, everything went well, I stuck it in the xbox, and only the internal memory unit shows up. so I plugged it back into my windows box. the drive shows up as a hitachi, but xplorer 320g couldn't find it. I read in one of the posts that it needed to be partitioned(although, I thought the newest version of HDDHACKR listed in the OP did that automatically). ran undo, re-flashed, then set partions 0,2,3, and xplorer found the drive. plugged it back in the xbox and it didn't recognize.

I am getting a LBA error in HDDHACKR that I thought was 'normal' but I'm wondering if maybe that's causing me problems? I tried to find some answers in the post, I'm sure there is one, but so far I'm still doing something wrong.
 
Snuchster said:
Hello everyone and I am so sorry but I tried to read as many threads, questions and replies as I possibly could before my eyes went buggy. All I want to do is create a new drive and plop it in the Xbox 360 slim. There is nothing for me to transfer, memory wise, since my other drive crashed. I have the Western Digital drive (WD Scorpio Blue 250G WD2500BEVT). I created the bootable media which has just the three items listed on the thumb drive. Now in lies my problem; everytime I boot to the USB drive, it does come up and I am allowed to type in hddhackr at the command prompt. It will either sit there and do nothing or goes to another command prompt. I have tried several different laptops (HP 8510, 6320, 8560 and even a tower all with the same results. I checked the BIOS settings over and over on each. I re-created the bootable media. I checked to make sure the sata cable was in either port 0 or 1, even tried others. When trying it in the laptops, the original hard drive was re-moved and the new drive installed. What in the world am I doing wrong. Everyone keeps saying how easy this is but obviously no one realizes what kind of luck I have...ugh!
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I got it after finally using a different thumbdrive. I determined the common problem was the thumb drive I was using. Foramatted the new one, re-installed software and the damnest thing happend........it worked. yea and thank you!:)
 
ogorir said:
Hi guys, I'm having some trouble getting my 360s to recognize my newly flashed WD3200bpvt. The first time I flashed it, everything went well, I stuck it in the xbox, and only the internal memory unit shows up. so I plugged it back into my windows box. the drive shows up as a hitachi, but xplorer 320g couldn't find it. I read in one of the posts that it needed to be partitioned(although, I thought the newest version of HDDHACKR listed in the OP did that automatically). ran undo, re-flashed, then set partions 0,2,3, and xplorer found the drive. plugged it back in the xbox and it didn't recognize.

I am getting a LBA error in HDDHACKR that I thought was 'normal' but I'm wondering if maybe that's causing me problems? I tried to find some answers in the post, I'm sure there is one, but so far I'm still doing something wrong.
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Try this.
I flashed my drive and it doesn't show in the xbox 360.
Use this tool in this thread to test/wipe the drive. Data Lifeguard Diagnostic For Western Digital Drives
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So, this time around I:

undo'd the flash
loaded the wd lifeguard util in dos off the USB stick
Ran the extended test, returned no errors
wrote zeros
restart
loaded hddhackr
flashed hddss320.bin renamed to Hddss.bin
soft power off
wait 10 seconds
Unplug drive, walk from the office to the living room
plug drive in xbox
start xbox
tab over to settings
no dice. Just shows up the USB drive and internal storage.


i think I can feel the drive spinning, so I'm pretty sure it's plugged in, but I'm not using a caddy, just stabbing it into the sata connector. Is there a possibility there's a link on the hdd caddy that needs to make contact or something?

Rick said:
Try this.
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ogorir said:
So, this time around I:

undo'd the flash
loaded the wd lifeguard util in dos off the USB stick
Ran the extended test, returned no errors
wrote zeros
restart
loaded hddhackr
flashed hddss320.bin renamed to Hddss.bin
soft power off
wait 10 seconds
Unplug drive, walk from the office to the living room
plug drive in xbox
start xbox
tab over to settings
no dice. Just shows up the USB drive and internal storage.


i think I can feel the drive spinning, so I'm pretty sure it's plugged in, but I'm not using a caddy, just stabbing it into the sata connector. Is there a possibility there's a link on the hdd caddy that needs to make contact or something?
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Connect the drive to the pc and see what it shows up as in the bios.
 
Rick said:
Connect the drive to the pc and see what it shows up as in the bios.
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I'll check this time around, but every other time I've flashed it, it shows up with the hitachi s/n. my mobo doesn't id the drive manufacturer. I'll check this time, but I'd wager it's the same.
 
Hi All,

I'm at a complete lost. For hours i tried to get my WD3200BPVT - manufactured 12 NOV 2012 - to be flashed with the HDDSS320.bin. I've followed all the steps to a T, even when hddhackr wouldn't flash sector 16, i used hex workshop to 'flash' sectors 16-22 and nothing at all. After 'flashing' with hexworkshop and then creating the partition with hddhackr, hddhackr still showed my drive as a WD and not a hitachi. On a side not there, when opening up HDDSS320.bin in hexworkshop, i don't see the device name (hiatchi) like i do when i open up the 250.bin file in hexworkshop, is my file corrupt!? My one computer i turned SATA mode down to ATA and the other computer is a Asus Striker Formula II mobo where i can't even find the option to change the SATA modes. Can someone please help, i've lost many hours of sleep from this?

Thanks for any advice/help.
 
Coop920 said:
Hi All,

I'm at a complete lost. For hours i tried to get my WD3200BPVT - manufactured 12 NOV 2012 - to be flashed with the HDDSS320.bin. I've followed all the steps to a T, even when hddhackr wouldn't flash sector 16, i used hex workshop to 'flash' sectors 16-22 and nothing at all. After 'flashing' with hexworkshop and then creating the partition with hddhackr, hddhackr still showed my drive as a WD and not a hitachi. On a side not there, when opening up HDDSS320.bin in hexworkshop, i don't see the device name (hiatchi) like i do when i open up the 250.bin file in hexworkshop, is my file corrupt!? My one computer i turned SATA mode down to ATA and the other computer is a Asus Striker Formula II mobo where i can't even find the option to change the SATA modes. Can someone please help, i've lost many hours of sleep from this?

Thanks for any advice/help.
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Run a bios update if available from your pc's manufacturers website.
 
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