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[magnus__hydra]

HOWEBREW ONLY
How to make ur bigger HDD work like the OEM and copy ur data. This is the windows version original guild (here) . Linux version can be found (here)

As many of u know Xbr/freeboot let us put bigger Hdd in the xbox 360 enclosed and reformat them to use Or we can wire up the bigger drive to the bottom of the board. What the reformatting dose not do and the reason for the guild until someone make a program to do so. Once the drive has been reformatted by the xbox 360 it doesn't make partition 1-3 like a normally OEM xbox 360 drive. It makes partition 1 and it acts like partition 3. Making it so there is no normally partition 2. There for not allowing us to play xbox 1 games. Also we can't use a type of explore to see the info on the drive other then to programs made for the xbox 360. I am talking about Le Fluffie and FATXplorer. There might be others but I don't know about them yet.

you will need both winhex and hex workshop. A way to connect your HDD to ur computer, I used xport.
Also you will need an OEM 20/60/120gb 360 HDD.

First part I am using a 20gb for an example. It would be best to use one as well. Unless your copying your data.
Open hex work shop and save sectors: start 0, to 9998663, name it firstpart.bin
(IMG:http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k429/Magnus_Hydra/Tuts/firstpart.jpg)
Then save sectors: start 9998664, to the end of the drive, name it secondpart.bin
(IMG:http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k429/Magnus_Hydra/Tuts/secondpart-1.jpg)

Getting the HDD ready. If you have a brand new drive that u just bought skip to the next part.
If u have used your drive for anything you should 0/null the HDD. Using a program to do so. I used Ultmate boot cd.

Now connect the HDD to you xbox 360 and format. Change the name to what ever.Now connect the HDD to you computer and open up winhex and find "name.txt". Look at which sector your name.txt starts in, write it down
(IMG:http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k429/Magnus_Hydra/Tuts/sectorname.jpg)

Open hex workshop, open the drive and save sectors 9998663 to (sector before you name.txt mine is 10227591 I would put 10227590)save as padding.bin. (Use your own number!)
(IMG:http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k429/Magnus_Hydra/Tuts/padding.jpg)
Open that in hex workshop and select all and fill with 00s.
(IMG:http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k429/Magnus_Hydra/Tuts/fill.jpg)

Now open hex workshop and restore sectors, firstpart.bin, start sector 0
(IMG:http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k429/Magnus_Hydra/Tuts/restore1.jpg)
Then hex workshop restore sectors: padding.bin, start sector 9998663
(IMG:http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k429/Magnus_Hydra/Tuts/restore2.jpg)
This expands the cluster chain table to proper size for your GB HDD.
Then restore sectors: secondpart.bin, start sector (Where ur name.txt sector was)
(IMG:http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k429/Magnus_Hydra/Tuts/restore3.jpg)
After that ur HDD should let u play xbox 1 games And if u have files on the HDD Le Fluffie and FATXplorer will work too.

Note: I have test this out with a 500gb HDD and a 160gb. Both work just fine. Any question please ask here don't pm me please. Thank you for read (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

(IMG:http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k429/Magnus_Hydra/Tuts/Untitled.jpg)
All credit goes Geremia, patstew, DougTheSlug, Eaton and Magnus Hydra.

Edit: wrong link opps.

This post has been edited by magnus__hydra: Jan 8 2010, 08:31 AM

[coreyinoz]

Thanks very much for the guide, I do appreciate the effort.

However, I have a question.

Are the sectors for firstpart.bin (0 - 9998663) the same when coming from an original 120GB MS drive?

Also, can you take a quick look to correct some of the conflicting instructions? I was cutting and pasting from there, and my second look makes me thing there may be a typo - where you ask to restore padding.bin to the new drive, you say to start at 9998663, but I believe this would be 9998664 correct? Otherwise, you're overwriting one sector of the firstpart.bin restoration right?

Thanks,

coreyinoz

[magnus__hydra]

QUOTE(coreyinoz @ Jan 13 2010, 01:45 AM)

Thanks very much for the guide, I do appreciate the effort.

However, I have a question.

Are the sectors for firstpart.bin (0 - 9998663) the same when coming from an original 120GB MS drive?

No there is data from the 20gb that will be needed.

QUOTE

Also, can you take a quick look to correct some of the conflicting instructions? I was cutting and pasting from there, and my second look makes me thing there may be a typo - where you ask to restore padding.bin to the new drive, you say to start at 9998663, but I believe this would be 9998664 correct? Otherwise, you're overwriting one sector of the firstpart.bin restoration right?

Thanks,

coreyinoz

U can do ether, it will all be 0's. On the xboxhack forums in the Linux version. I talked about how The guy from this little mini Tut didn't go into detail on how he got his padding.bin. So I just copied sector 9998663 to sector before your name.tx. It worked fine restoring it. I've don't this on both 500gb and a 160gb. Also on the Linux version link u will see that it works fine for other users.

[coreyinoz]

@Magnus,

Thanks again for coming back.

Can you help me then if coming from a 120GB MS drive? I don't have a 20GB as a starting point.

So what sectors would I back up as my firstpart.bin coming from the 120GB?

Thanks,

coreyinoz

[Kharoof]

Hi there, first off thank you for the tutorial, precisely what i was looking for. Now comes the issues and questions (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

First off in Hex Workshop when i open any file for hex editing i can scroll through it, but when i open a disk it only shows me 1 sector at a time (while in winhex i can see the whole thing), is that normal and is there an option to show all data and let your scroll through them like a regular file would?

Then comes my questions about restoring

I borrowed a friends 20GB because my 120GB would take too long to dump. I dumped part1 and part2, now when i clicked on restore and loaded part1, i chose start sector 0 but the file only shows as 768MB instead of 4.77GB (but when originally dumped, it dumped 4.77GB). then comes the weird part, i click ok to restore, it seems to be doing it's thing (whatever that thing is). but somehow i think it's overwriting the part1.bin because when i click restore, the file drops to 0bytes in win explorer, then when hex is done doing it's thing I'm left with 768MB file, again is that normal?

Yet on your picture of restoring part1 it shows the proper file size of 4.77GB.

Now because it did that, i lost my original part1.bin and since i didn't have the 20GB anymore, i dumped the part1 from my 120GB, i dunno if that's gonna work, since I'm doing part1 from 120GB drive and part 2 from 20GB drive.

please clarify a little bit more the procedures and what they're supposed to do, I was under the impression that restoring the part1 and part2 were supposed to overwrite the sectors on the disc, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

when i did restore on my padding.bin same ting happened, it rebuilt the file on my windows hdd (proper size though) and inside of it (hex editing), instead of having 0's everywhere i have name.txt etc... so it's as if it extracted that same amount of sectors from my 500GB formatted on 360 and dumped them on my padding.bin (and overwriting it in the process).

Thank you for your time and I'd appreciate if you could clarify the situation for me, i'm sure it would help others as well.

Thank you.

This post has been edited by Kharoof: Jan 14 2010, 08:37 AM

[magnus__hydra]

QUOTE(coreyinoz @ Jan 14 2010, 01:35 AM)

@Magnus,
Thanks again for coming back.
Can you help me then if coming from a 120GB MS drive? I don't have a 20GB as a starting point.
So what sectors would I back up as my firstpart.bin coming from the 120GB?
Thanks,
coreyinoz

In the original guild it tell u the info for the 120gb oem drive.

QUOTE

// destination 120GB

hexworkshop create new file, insert 174A000(hex) bytes of "00", save as padding.bin

hexworkshop save sectors: start 16, end 22, 120hddss.bin // important
hexworkshop restore sectors: firstpart.bin, start sector 0
hexworkshop restore sectors: padding.bin, start sector 9998664 // this expands the cluster chain table to proper size for a 120GB
hexworkshop restore sectors: secondpart.bin, start sector 10046360
hexworkshop restore sectors: 120hddss.bin, start sector 16

QUOTE(Kharoof @ Jan 14 2010, 02:32 AM)

Hi there, first off thank you for the tutorial, precisely what i was looking for. Now comes the issues and questions

First off in Hex Workshop when i open any file for hex editing i can scroll through it, but when i open a disk it only shows me 1 sector at a time (while in winhex i can see the whole thing), is that normal and is there an option to show all data and let your scroll through them like a regular file would?
sadly hex workshop doesn't let u look through it like winhex. There might be away but i am not sure on how to do that
Then comes my questions about restoring

I borrowed a friends 20GB because my 120GB would take too long to dump. I dumped part1 and part2, now when i clicked on restore and loaded part1, i chose start sector 0 but the file only shows as 768MB instead of 4.77GB (but when originally dumped, it dumped 4.77GB). then comes the weird part, i click ok to restore, it seems to be doing it's thing (whatever that thing is). but somehow i think it's overwriting the part1.bin because when i click restore, the file drops to 0bytes in win explorer, then when hex is done doing it's thing I'm left with 768MB file, again is that normal?

Yet on your picture of restoring part1 it shows the proper file size of 4.77GB.
yes the first part should be 4.77GB
Now because it did that, i lost my original part1.bin and since i didn't have the 20GB anymore, i dumped the part1 from my 120GB, i dunno if that's gonna work, since I'm doing part1 from 120GB drive and part 2 from 20GB drive.

please clarify a little bit more the procedures and what they're supposed to do, I was under the impression that restoring the part1 and part2 were supposed to overwrite the sectors on the disc, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

when i did restore on my padding.bin same ting happened, it rebuilt the file on my windows hdd (proper size though) and inside of it (hex editing), instead of having 0's everywhere i have name.txt etc... so it's as if it extracted that same amount of sectors from my 500GB formatted on 360 and dumped them on my padding.bin (and overwriting it in the process).

Thank you for your time and I'd appreciate if you could clarify the situation for me, i'm sure it would help others as well.
 I am having a hard time figuring out what ur trying to ask. Part one I believe holds the hddss.bin, Partition 1 and 2. the padding expands the cluster chain table to proper size.
firstpart.bin:  restore start sector 0. That will take and over write 0 - 9998663.
Padding.bin:  restore start sector 9998663 or 9998664 (I did 9998663). This will 00s all the data from selected sector to the sector where your name.txt starts.. If IT is over written that is fine because the second.bin starts there anyways.
Second.bin restore start sector where ur name.txt is in.

I hope that helps if not more info please.

Thank you.

[jgsieve]

Is this technique compatible with 2TB drives, like is FATXplorer compatible?

Thanks

[Kharoof]

ok i'll try and explain myself more

I ripped 3 parts from the 20GB that i have

part1.bin (4.77 GB)
part2.bin (14.X GB)
padding.bin (0'd) (approx 112MB)

then I connected the 500GB onto my PC (after formatting it in my 360)

I opened Hex Workshop then I did the first restore for part1.bin (and that's where the issues/questions) started

went to restore sector (under disk menu) then I selected part1.bin starting at sector 0


now on your picture number 6(from the top) you see the file size being 4.77 and sectors 9958665, mine doesn't show that, it shows file size about 786MB and 1610056 sectors (or something close to that).

Then if i click OK to go ahead and restore sectors, it's my part1.bin on my PC that gets overwritten (with what seems to be sectors from the 500GB hdd), then when the process is done i end up with a part1.bin that's 786MB.

Maybe i'm misunderstanding this whole process, but isn't it supposed to write the part1.bin onto the 500GB HDD?

what's going on, what is the restore process supposed to do to the files what gets injected in what? I'm completely lost, can any1 help me out with this plz.

EDIT: I'm using Hex Workshop 5.0.0.2511, if it matters

This post has been edited by Kharoof: Jan 15 2010, 08:34 PM

[xlinkx]

Any hard drives will work with this tutorial or just the Western Digital BEVS ?

[magnus__hydra]

QUOTE(jgsieve @ Jan 15 2010, 11:10 AM)

Is this technique compatible with 2TB drives, like is FATXplorer compatible?

Thanks

It should you will have to find the right sectore for your name.txt.

QUOTE(Kharoof @ Jan 15 2010, 02:33 PM)

ok i'll try and explain myself more

I ripped 3 parts from the 20GB that i have

part1.bin (4.77 GB)
part2.bin (14.X GB)
padding.bin (0'd) (approx 112MB)

then I connected the 500GB onto my PC (after formatting it in my 360)

I opened Hex Workshop then I did the first restore for part1.bin (and that's where the issues/questions) started

went to restore sector (under disk menu) then I selected part1.bin starting at sector 0
now on your picture number 6(from the top) you see the file size being 4.77 and sectors 9958665, mine doesn't show that, it shows file size about 786MB and 1610056 sectors (or something close to that).

Then if i click OK to go ahead and restore sectors, it's my part1.bin on my PC that gets overwritten (with what seems to be sectors from the 500GB hdd), then when the process is done i end up with a part1.bin that's 786MB.

Maybe i'm misunderstanding this whole process, but isn't it supposed to write the part1.bin onto the 500GB HDD?

what's going on, what is the restore process supposed to do to the files what gets injected in what? I'm completely lost, can any1 help me out with this plz.

EDIT: I'm using Hex Workshop 5.0.0.2511, if it matters

Try getting the newer version of Hex workshop if u can. It should be writing the firstpart.bin to ur 500gb HDD. Any restore goes to ur HDD not your pc HDD. It shouldn't over write ur firstpart.bin. ARe u restoring the firstpart.bin, secondpart.bin and the padding.bin to the HDD ur going ot be using for ur xbox 360. U need ot make sure u change the name on both the 20gb and ur newly formatted 500gbs. Have u Zero your 500gb drive before reformatting it with the xbox 360? if not that could be causing a problem as well.

QUOTE(xlinkx @ Jan 15 2010, 09:43 PM)

Any hard drives will work with this tutorial or just the Western Digital BEVS ?

Any drive type should work. I am using a Seagate Momentus 500GB Laptop,Notebook 2.5" 7200 Drive. There is a user on ebay selling them for like $95. Now there selling a 2tb for $175... grr I wish They had that before I bought the 500gb.. oh well

[jeffrey92]

good tutorial. thank you

although you probably should fix the pictures with the right stuff if you haven't already, they were a little misleading

[Mason2214]

Hi

Just wanna say thanks

Followed this tutorial and now got 2tb harddrive working with xbr and able to inject/extract using FATXplorer.

One thing i must say if u have used the harddrive before on pc or whatever u need to null the drive this took over 8hrs on my pc.

I used Boot and Nuke to do this is dos with bootable cd.

[Kharoof]

just to give you fellas an update on my situation,

after installing hexworkshop v6 the restore on disk worked properly and now i have a 500GB hdd in the 360 enclosure working like an original with all partitions

Thank you Magnus for the tutorial

[craz3d]

GUIDE.

G U I D E

[matt186]

Sorry a newbie question but can I format a USB attached HD and make it look like OEM?