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[Midnight Tboy]

well i've just tried my own method of getting the drive to work - and can confirm it works with no problems whatsoever.....and no messing with hex editing the hdd for those that dont want to or have problems doing that

[Hooterman]

QUOTE(Midnight Tboy @ Jan 25 2010, 06:16 PM)

well i've just tried my own method of getting the drive to work - and can confirm it works with no problems whatsoever.....and no messing with hex editing the hdd for those that dont want to or have problems doing that

So you only did these steps:

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.

And it worked?  

I'm looking at going from an OEM 20gig drive to a 500gig with the easiest method.  

And does it change anything that my 20gig is coming from a banned console?

[xkilla7680]

what is the fastest way to find "name.txt" in winhex?

[Antman1]

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, then click search and then click "Find Text" and search for "name.txt" when you find it you will see  a window like the picture below.  the offset is what is needed to calculate the magic numbers.  of course the magic numbers have been calculated already for many of the drives.

So far I know of:
20GB : 00 78 03 , 0x131229000
60GB : 00 C9 0C , 0x131B7A000
100GB : 00 1A 16 , 0x1324CB000
120GB : 00 C2 1A , 0x132973000
160GB : 00 13 24 , 0x1332C4000
500GB : 00 40 73 , 0x1381F0000
1TB : 00 B0 E7 , 0x13f661000

[wabashman]

midnight--

im curious as to how you did this as well.  mainly because i cannot get hex workshop to read any of my 20 gig hard drives.  i get a error as soon as i start stating that sector 0 is write protected or damaged.  i have a backup image of one of my 20 gig HDs but i am unsure of how to get that onto my 500 gig HD for my jtag console.  so if you could please elaborate on this i would greatly appreciate it.

thank you

[BlueSlingShot]

QUOTE(wabashman @ Feb 3 2010, 09:05 PM)

midnight--

im curious as to how you did this as well.  mainly because i cannot get hex workshop to read any of my 20 gig hard drives.  i get a error as soon as i start stating that sector 0 is write protected or damaged.  i have a backup image of one of my 20 gig HDs but i am unsure of how to get that onto my 500 gig HD for my jtag console.  so if you could please elaborate on this i would greatly appreciate it.

thank you

His thread is a couple down from this one. Step by step instructions. I'll be doing this with 1 tb drive instead of hex editing.

No thank you

[wabashman]

thanks bling, didnt look there for it.  however, if you just use acronis true image to wipe the drive, the jtag box will see it and format it for you.  easy as that.

[ewok666]

Thanks for the guide! I'll be giving this a try shortly.

Does anyone know what happens to game saves? These are signed to the ID of the storage device I thought. Do they need to be resigned or does the ID not change with this process?

TIA

[CowGuy]

QUOTE(ewok666 @ Feb 4 2010, 08:12 PM)

Thanks for the guide! I'll be giving this a try shortly.

Does anyone know what happens to game saves? These are signed to the ID of the storage device I thought. Do they need to be resigned or does the ID not change with this process?

TIA

Currently having issues with that, not sure if it is because I used a 360 drive that was from another xbox to do this or what.  But I would really like my saved games and every time I try to load them the game tells me I need to go the Xbox dashboard and delete my saved game to play.  Forza 3 doesn't even let me past the main menu.

[DHA]

I'm also having problem with game saves, none of the games I've tested can read the game save, they either say it's corrupted or non existent. I still have the back up data I'm guessing I need to do something with that...

[badass74]

nvm figured it out.

This post has been edited by badass74: Feb 7 2010, 08:05 PM

[Br0k3R]

i've done everythiong as you posted and i even didn't have to format 500gb hdd, becouse the size was OK in xbox, it even has a content that 20gb had (mw2 and xexloader) and the content worked. BUT IT STILL SAYS "failed to read chain cluster maps." ;/ i've spent ~24h wiping disk by darik's boot and nuke from ultimate boot cd and it was just waiste of time. Can I do sth to made my disk working with FATXplorer/Xplorer360/Xport?

[deluxe247]

Hey, I was attempting to do this going from 120gb to 500gb.

Here is what I did:

Zeroed and formatted my 500gb and found name.txt at 10227592.
Opened my 120gb and found name.txt at 10046360.

Created firstpart.bin by saving sectors 0 to 10046359 of my 120gb.
Created secondpart.bin by saving sectors 10046360 to the end of my 120gb.
Created padding.bin by saving sectors 10046360 to 10227591 of my 500gb.
Zeroed padding.bin.

Restored firstpart.bin to 500gb starting at sector 0.
Restored padding.bin to 500gb starting at sector 10046360.
Restored secondpart.bin to 500gb starting at sector 10227592.

At offset F0C0 in Xplorer360_09b6_250gb.exe, changed it from 00 00 00 to 00 40 73.

However, Xplorer360 can not open Partitions 1 or 3. Any help?

[KoukiMonster91]

is there any way to do this without a xport or similar device?

[dirtymurt]

how are you adding 2tb drives. the biggest 2.5" i can fins is 750gb and are expensive?