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

If this has been addressed before, I apologize.
1. What about using 3.5 in. hard drives via an extension cable? I have a pile of the 3.5's around. I'd rather buy cable than buy another HDD.
2. What does a a successfully patched HDD look like to Windows systems? Usable?
 
If this has been addressed before, I apologize.
1. What about using 3.5 in. hard drives via an extension cable? I have a pile of the 3.5's around. I'd rather buy cables than buy another HDD.
3. What does a a successfully patched HDD look like to Windows systems? Usable?
 
3.5in drives, patched HDD on windows

If this has been addressed before, I apologize.
1. What about using 3.5 in. hard drives via an extension cable? I have a pile of the 3.5's around. I'd rather buy cables than buy another HDD.
3. What does a a successfully patched HDD look like to Windows systems? Usable?
 
If this has been addressed before, I apologize.
1. What about using 3.5 in. hard drives via an extension cable? I have a pile of 3.5s around. I'd rather buy cables than buy another HDD.
3. What does a a successfully patched HDD look like to Windows systems? Usable?
 
Balrog said:
If this has been addressed before, I apologize.
1. What about using 3.5 in. hard drives via an extension cable? I have a pile of 3.5s around. I'd rather buy cables than buy another HDD.
2. What does a a successfully patched HDD look like to Windows systems? Usable?
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Found answer to #1: power. Soldering. I have another solution: power from my PC. A 3.5" solution will be a frankenstein anyway.
Still digging for #2. If I ever get a HDD patched, I'll just have to plug it into a windows box to find out.
 
I went through the hddhackr flash process but with it gets to the end instead of say congratulations....etc, I get a error message "Bad/Wrong Model or number offset!"

Attached is original undo.zip and post flash undo1.zip BIN files.
 

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Balrog said:
I went through the hddhackr flash process but with it gets to the end instead of say congratulations....etc, I get a error message "Bad/Wrong Model or number offset!"

Attached is original undo.zip and post flash undo1.zip BIN files.
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Bump. Is more information needed?
 
InsaneNutter said:
Strange one, what drive are you trying to hack?
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I'd have thought you'd be able to tell from the UNDO file?
WD3200KS-00PFB0
MOBO: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD 790XT-G45 (MS-7388) with latest BIOS
It's a 3.5" drive
See 1st posting for the UNDO files.
 
Balrog said:
I'd have thought you'd be able to tell from the UNDO file?
WD3200KS-00PFB0
MOBO: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD 790XT-G45 (MS-7388) with latest BIOS
It's a 3.5" drive
See 1st posting for the UNDO files.
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*bump* Is this a dead issue? Should I move on?
 
Usually any problems like that are related to the sata chipset been used to hack the drive, I had no trouble when i created this tutorial years ago. However when i came to do a newer drive using modern hardware I had a lot of trouble. In the end I used an older netbook.

I know it doesn't help much but it's a tricky topic to really provide much more info on than I have in the tutorial sadly.
 
Anyone know if WD2500LPVX would work? Also if I do not care about backwards compatibility do I need to do the Restoring the Xbox Classic Emulator and User Content: section.
 
zer0null said:
Anyone know if WD2500LPVX would work? Also if I do not care about backwards compatibility do I need to do the Restoring the Xbox Classic Emulator and User Content: section.
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The drives in the LPVX series should work, someone has confirmed the WD5000LPVX does. I'd imagine the 250gb version of that drive will also work with that in mind.
 
Hello I have a xbox360 black and I want to try to hack the hardrive
do you have a list of western digital hard rive 100% compatible ?
I will banned from live if I use a hacked hard drive ?
 
You will not be banned, the first post in this thread has a list.

A good drive to hack would be the WD5000LPVX
 
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