Xbox HDM 2.3 USB Beta 2 Download - Xbox Hard Drive Maker for Windows (Original Xbox)

[Trisha Takanawa]

Swapping the hard drive in an original Xbox used to mean burning the xboxhdm boot CD and digging out a PC with a spare IDE port. Not any more! ldotsfan has wrapped xboxhdm up so it runs straight from Windows, Rocky5 has given it a proper menu, and the Xbox drive just plugs into the PC with a USB adapter.

Download:

Download Xbox HDM 2.3 USB Beta 2

How to use:

1. Extract the zip, connect the Xbox drive with a USB adapter and run xboxhd.bat. It asks for administrator rights, which it needs to talk to the drive.
2. Choose 1 to list the drives, and make a note of which number is the Xbox drive.
3. To lock or unlock the drive (3 or 4), put your console's eeprom.bin in the xboxhdm23usb folder first. The drive is locked to that console and won't unlock without it.
4. To build a new drive, put your C and E files in hdm\C and hdm\E, then choose 2 to start xboxhdm and use its menu as normal.

Check the drive number twice before you lock, unlock or build anything. Pick the wrong one and it's your PC's own drive that gets wiped.

If unlocking fails, try a different USB adapter. Not every adapter passes the lock and unlock commands through.

Got a drive bigger than the stock one? XBpartitioner will let you use the rest of it.