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[Kharoof]

Not as of today, in the future who knows


Drive has to be connected to the side hdd port for it to behave like an oem disk

[jgsieve]

Magnus,

I'm trying to get a hold of the latest fatxplorer, which one do you recommend? http://www.xboxscene.com/tools/tools.php?page=harddrive or do you have a link to one you used?

Thanks

[jgsieve]

and one more question, the step "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!)"

in the 3rd pic it shows you using the start sector of name.txt (10227591) but you say "I would put 10227590"
 
So the 8th pic would be the start of name.txt (10227591) or the number before it "10227590"? or does it matter. I know my numbers will be different btw.

thanks

[Midnight Tboy]

hi there.

I'm just looking at a way to swap my 120gb drive with a 320gb

Can I ask, is it absolutely necessary to 'zero' the drive?  I'm just looking at ways of doing that now.  Can the drives be zero'd while acting as usb drives to the pc or must they be connected directly to sata?  Could you not just alternatively remove all partitions on the drive, and just let the new partitions be created over the top as normal?

This post has been edited by Midnight Tboy: Jan 22 2010, 11:41 PM

[Antman1]

Wouldnt this be easier?

You will need to restore Partition2 using Xplorer360 Extreme2 (get this from a retail M$ drive using Xplorer360 Extreme2) If you are using a non M$ hard drive you will need to add the partitions manually first for Xplorer360 Extreme2 to see the drive. Otherwise you will get a "No fatx partition found" error.

Add the missing partition manually starting at byte 0x80000 of your non M$ Drive. You need to make it look like:

58 54 41 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 01

So, the easy way to do this: open your drive with winhex( http://www.x-ways.net/winhex.zip) by pressing F9, select yournon M$ drive, press <ALT>+G, use position 80000 (hexadec) and then edit these 16 bytes starting at 0x80000 to look like above. Save it, restart the xplorer360 Extreme 2 and the FATX error should be gone and you should see 2 partitions now.

This info came from thespecialist a while back when he discovered what xplorer360 is looking for and then using xplrer360 Extreme2 restore partiton 2 you backed up from your M$ HDD. You will not be able to see anything in partition 3 with Xplorer360 Extreme2 but I recommend if you google this "FATXplorer 1.0 app developed by Eaton Cracked by Cyrax" you will find a cracked version and it even tells you what game the numbered folders are.

Now you will need to run the Update for Xbox1 Compatibility. you can find this here: http://www.microsoft....DisplayLang=en

After downloading this file extract it and burn to a cdr and put it in your 360. it will show like it is a game. play it and install it. (I recommend trying a retail Xbox1 game to make sure it is all ok) Congrats you now have Xbox1 Emulation partiton restored and working.

[Midnight Tboy]

could this not be potentially a much easier way to do it?

Use Ghost32....and create a ghost image of the 20gb (or whatever) full hdd.

then ghost that disk image back to the new drive.

That way in theory all 3 partitions should be made correctly?

Then have the 360 format the hdd - that way it should then correct the file size of partition 3...and bobs ya uncle....

[synbios1978]

I'm not sure about that method.  I just tried this last night and came up with a few issues.  I could view the new drive in FATXplorer but not in Le Fluffie after doing everything, and with the orig 20GB hard drive, my backup of Forza 3 and the save game loaded fine, after the swap, it came up as corrupted and I had to delete it, then when I tried to create a new Forza 3 file, the game froze when starting my first race.

I'm currently using Active @KillDisk to zero byte my new hard drive.  I still have it in the 360 case connected via the 360 USB transfer cable from within Windows.  Then, I'm going to try everything again since I still have my files from the 20 GB stored on my pc.

This post has been edited by synbios1978: Jan 23 2010, 11:04 PM

[Majinseed]

oh c'mon, putting a full 1:1 backup of a smaller drive onto a bigger one will mess everything up...
partitions 0-2 start at the SAME position for every drive, after partition 2 you'll want to have a certain amount of zeros (depending on the size of the NEW drive) so the size will show up correctly - if you migrate the zeros from the 20GB drive you'll mess stuff up.

if you don't want to migrate your data just format the CLEAN (eg zero'd) drive in xbr and write your "firstpart.bin" onto it. done.

if you want to migrate data you can either follow the guide or do the stuff above and migrate everything from partition 3 via some app - which might again mess stuff up because most apps don't seem to work well with big drives (at least for me).

in short: stick to the guide, it's not THAT complicated, it might take some time for 120 or 250GB but if done correctly everything WILL work fine.

[Midnight Tboy]

QUOTE(Majinseed @ Jan 24 2010, 05:37 AM)

oh c'mon, putting a full 1:1 backup of a smaller drive onto a bigger one will mess everything up...
partitions 0-2 start at the SAME position for every drive, after partition 2 you'll want to have a certain amount of zeros (depending on the size of the NEW drive) so the size will show up correctly - if you migrate the zeros from the 20GB drive you'll mess stuff up.

if you don't want to migrate your data just format the CLEAN (eg zero'd) drive in xbr and write your "firstpart.bin" onto it. done.

if you want to migrate data you can either follow the guide or do the stuff above and migrate everything from partition 3 via some app - which might again mess stuff up because most apps don't seem to work well with big drives (at least for me).

in short: stick to the guide, it's not THAT complicated, it might take some time for 120 or 250GB but if done correctly everything WILL work fine.

reason I was thinking of ghost, was I was trying remember about 18months or so ago what I did to do my 120gb modded drive from a 20gb.

I remember at the time having problems with the partitions.....

but I've just trawled through some of my old posts on another site and this is what I did

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ermmm lets see from memory what my steps where .. I had a 20gb drive so wanted to keep all my saves etc from it.

1. Connected 20gb to pc and backed up Partition 2 as an image in xplorer360
2. Back up data in partition 3 by dragging and dropping.
3. Connected 120gb and ran hddhackr
4. formatted 120gb in 360. This format went fine and looked alright in the settings on 360. I never tested any game out though
5. I then connected the 120gb back to the pc with the intention of restoring the data in partition 2 (which is used for xb1 stuff - though was empty on mine anyways), and partition 3 which holds gamesaves and other main data. However I noticed my main problem.....xplorer 360 was only showing one partition being Partition1 that the 360 had made. Had this been tried running games etc on 360 don't know what would have happened long term but tried to sort it straight away.
6. Tried to restore partition 2 anyways to see what would happen and if would create it. It sat doing nothing for eons.

sooooo....did a bit of scouting for better guides and more info......reverted to this.

7. Connected 20gb drive back to pc, this time choosing a FULL image backup.
8. connected 120gb HD back to pc, restored the 20gb image onto it. This gave the results showing partitions 1-3....but partition 3 is corrupt
9. Connect 120gb to 360 - choose to format it again. This corrects the partition3.
10. 120gb drive back to pc, then copied over all save etc data into partition3 that I'd backed up previously.
11. As advised to help HD run more efficiently and not click boot to dos and ran a tool downloaded from Western Digital called wdidle3.exe. Ran "wdidle3 /d" which disabled the timer.
12. Back in 360 and working like a charm All 3 partitions available.

Sooo....of course NOT using Ghost there, but just made a full DISK backup with Xplorer360.  It put the partitions in the order that they should have been....and yes the partition 3 was corrupt, but once formatted in the 360 the partition was fine and has been ever since.

The only differences here I see are
a) not using the hddhackr .bin file as its not needed.
the size of hdd not being a predetermined 20 or 120gbbut of any size.
c) presuming that xbr_3 under the same conditions as above, would have also performed in the same way
d) in some peoples cases, the drive may have been previously used for data (though that could have happened with the old bevs drives I guess)
e) of course wdidle3 would no longer be used (well maybe if it was a wd drive )

[jgsieve]

just went setup my 2TB drive. I followed only the text, now I can even format the drive in NXE after this tutorial and it will keep the partitions. Thanks! I use Xport, which works pretty good. you can get it fron datels site for free.

[braxton34]

I just tried this using a new WD 500Gb drive and my 20Gb hard drive full of saves, DLC etc and it didn't seem to work. I got 3 partitions instead of 1, but when the 500gb was hooked up to the xbox, it did not see any saved content. So then I reformatted using the xbox, played some games to save data to the HD, confirmed the data was there, and then brought HD back to the PC.
Xport360 still sees the 3 partitions, but it shows partition 3 as being empty. Partition 1 is empty too and 2 just has compatibility files I think. So where did the saves go??? 360HDD explorer also sees partition3 as empty, and FATXplorer fails to sync with drive giving a "not enough resources" error WTF?

Anyhow, any suggestions what to try next??

[Midnight Tboy]

personally I don't see why my above method would not work.  Also I'd already in effect copied data to it, when attempted the 2nd time roud....and did not need to zero the drive (ok so it was only a small amount of data such as profiles and a couple of xbla games etc).  After setting the xbox to format it after the bad partition 3 it would then show up as the full available size

I'm trying to free up some pc hdd space to try it myself, as I have only a 120gb working xbox drive now, and want to take the full image the lazy way with my xplorer360extreme2 and then try to put it to a 320gb 205" drive to see what happens

seeing as that method works for regular 120gb bev drives as per the old method of drive swapping it should be ok..the only potential issue I could see - could perhaps be that the 360 only formats 120gb worth of space to the 3rd partition and not utilise the full space due to not hdd bin file being written to it

This post has been edited by Midnight Tboy: Jan 25 2010, 01:25 PM

[Midnight Tboy]

I've freed up nearly enough space on my pc now - so shortly I'll give it a go.

Certainly this way would be a lot easier...maybe time consuming though while a whole 120gb image is made (unless it perhaps only makes the image based on the amount of data held (about 40gb at mo)

Will post when know any more

[jgsieve]

just a update on my situation. xport could see the drive and files in partition 2. I transfered some XBLA games and they show in xport but not on the 360, so I formatted and now I dump all data from a 250gb usb drive through xexloader and now I can see the games.

[jbcholdings]

Thanks for the tutorial.

Question about XBOX 1 games:

I completed the upgrade using the standard OEM method/transfer cable between a 20GB original drive -- and a HDDHackr formatted 120GB.

I am getting reports that XBOX 1 games that are compatible are not working on the upgraded drive, although it reported as successfully upgraded.

Does anyone know if this is a known issue with the HDDHackr created drives.

My original discussion of the subject here.