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[360bob07]

TheSpecialist, you have PM.

Thanks.

[360bob07]

QUOTE(TheSpecialist @ Jun 13 2007, 12:29 PM)

You can't use hddss.bin from a Samsung. All the other brands/models are fine. BTW, are there samsung 120 gb's drive now in the wild ??

Are you referring to the original 360 drive? My original 360 drive is a Samsung 20GB (got your tool to work with my drive, thanks).

I'm getting the error message like some others that the drive is different.

Thanks.

[TheSpecialist]

Yeah, I'm referring to the original drive, you can't use a hddss.bin dumped from a samsung. The process will work, but in the end, it won't say that the drive will work in your x360.

About a bootdisk: use anything that boots into dos, preferably without the config.sys and autoexec.bat on disk.

[360bob07]

QUOTE(jhackman007 @ May 28 2007, 06:53 PM)

Ok I played around with my original MS 20GB and a blank WD120GB HD.  I managed to get a 120GB hddss.bin from another source.  I flashed my WD120GB with the 120 hddss.bin, put the WD120 in the 360 and reformated the drive.  It showed 107GB left, which is good.

Now I wanted to transfer the content of my 20GB to my new 120GB.
I attached my original MS 20GB to my PC, ran the Explorer360 E2, backed up Partition2 and manually backup Partition3 (copy files).  I then restarted my PC with the new WD120GB.  Explorer E2 showed Partition1 only (although this 120GB was formatted with the XBOX360).  I tried restoring Partition2, and the "restoring" status bar was not doing anything (it was not restoring).  So my questions are:
1. It did not work because you cannot take a Partition2 from a 20GB and restore it to a 120GB?
2. Then how do you transfer the content of the 20GB to the 120GB? Note that I do not have the original MS 120GB HD, so I won't be able to get Partition2 from an original MS 120GB HD.  

Any helps are appreciated.

Thanks
-JH

JH,

when you were backing up the original xbox drive did it slow way down near the end? Mine got near 20GB and then took a few hours just to get a few more MBs (Xplorer 360 E2 progress bar was not even 1/4 the way filled).

Thanks.

[101499]

sry if its a noob q but, do i just buy a compatible drive and use this tool on it?  do i need a serial number or nethin from an original drive or does the installer do that for me?

[360bob07]

Man, my folders do not look like the ones in your picture, skye001. My Partition 0 only has one folder, and it has cryptic characters, and there are no files in it.

[Skinleech]

QUOTE(101499 @ Jun 18 2007, 10:16 PM)

sry if its a noob q but, do i just buy a compatible drive and use this tool on it?  do i need a serial number or nethin from an original drive or does the installer do that for me?

You need to dump a file from the size of HDD you want to use - if it's a 20gb you need to get a file from the 20gb hd.  Same goes for the 120gb.  The nfo has the intructions on how to do it.  You then need to run the tool from DOS and it'll patch your compatible WD drive with the file you got from the 360 hdd to make it recognised by the 360.

[fabrix26]

Can you be Banned  by Micro$ when yuo used this tool in XboxLive?? thank's

[TheSpecialist]

QUOTE(fabrix26 @ Jun 19 2007, 05:27 PM)

Can you be Banned  by Micro$ when yuo used this tool in XboxLive?? thank's

Yes, they could detect the HDD if they would want to. Up till now, there are no reports of people that got banned because of a hacked HDD, but there will be always a bit of risk of course. ..

[fabrix26]

QUOTE(TheSpecialist @ Jun 19 2007, 06:23 PM)

Yes, they could detect the HDD if they would want to. Up till now, there are no reports of people that got banned because of a hacked HDD, but there will be always a bit of risk of course. ..

Thank'you The Specialist, very compliment for you work, now another question  
In this moment, Online are there some people it used hacked HDD without be ban??
I'm sorry for my bad English, but I'am an English Student

[TheSpecialist]

QUOTE(fabrix26 @ Jun 20 2007, 03:19 PM)

Thank'you The Specialist, very compliment for you work, now another question  
In this moment, Online are there some people it used hacked HDD without be ban??
I'm sorry for my bad English, but I'am an English Student

Yes, people are online with hacked hdd' and there are no reports of bans because of that. Personally, I don't think there's a very high risk of being banned, but you never know for sure, it's always a guess. So if you REALLY don't want to risk being banned, then maybe you should just go with the official HDD. It's a choice everybody has to make for himself.

[fabrix26]

Ok, thank'you very much

[Skinleech]

Hmm.  Not sure what I've done here....

I flashed my 120gb drive a while ago, and swapped it for the official 20gb, which worked a charm.  So I decided to add parition 2 to it.  I had an image of a 20gb drive that I restored of vermy 120, and I also copied partition 3 from my official 20gb.  I injected the files I backed up to partition 3, but they didn't appear.

So, i backed up my entire 20gb drive, then restored it.  However, it hung about 30% in and didn't go any further.  I cancelled the restore,and now my 360 won't see the drive.  If I try to restore the original 20gb image, it also hangs.

I tried to run hddhackr again, and it tells me "Some SATA device found" "Error: Unable to open the file".

The drive still shows up in Explorer360, and I can see all 3 partitions - 1 & 3 are blank, 2 has data in it.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[ivc]

CODE

Drive contents:
Address  Length (bytes)  Contains
0x0000   8192    Null (0x00)
0x2000   68      Plain text hard disk info
0x2044   24      Static Binary Info (doesn't change console to console)
0x205C   256     Dynamic Binary Data (changes from console to console - possibly encrypted serial number of console)
0x2202   2       Size of following PNG file
0x2204   2754    MS logo in PNG format (aka hddss.bin), made with Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 on the 19th of July 2005

Partitions:
Address          Description
0x80000          Cache Partition (aka partition 0)
0x80080000       Unknown
0x120EB0000      Xbox Backwards compatibility drive (aka partition 2)
0x130EB0000      Main Xbox 360 Partition (aka partition 3)

Notes:
* You cannot use a hddss.bin backup from a 20 GB hard drive and use it on a new 120 GB, it will only show 20 GB total size whatever you try
* Original Samsung hard drives cannot be used to flash new WD 120 GB disk, it's currently unsupported
* Previous hacked Xplorer360 versions (TS hacked Xplorer360, Xplorer360 temp1) will have problems with 20 GB drives, use Xplorer360 xtreme 2

Downloads:
Xplorer360 xtreme 2 http://rapidshare.co...treme2.rar.html

XPLORER360 IMAGE AND FILE BACKUP METHOD (recommended)
Original drive:
1. Open the Xbox hard drive case and remove the hard drive
2. Connect to sata connector, boot to clean ms-dos, create hddss.bin backup of original hard drive, hddhackr -d
3. Create an image backup of partition 2 (Xbox 1 emulator) using the File -> Backup Partition 2 in Xplorer360 xtreme 2 (you can also extract the files and insert them in partition 2 on the new drive later if you can see partition 2 in Xplorer360)
4. Create file backup of partition 3 (Xbox 360 main filesystem) by selecting the partition 3 in Xplorer360 xtreme 2 and Edit -> Extract

New drive:
5. Flash new drive with 20 GB (for new 20 GB drive) or 120 GB (for new 120 GB drive) hddss.bin (from step 2) using hddhackr -f and at the same time make sure when asked to create an undo firmware file. Ignore any timeout expired error. Shutdown to load the new firmware (reboot won't reload it)
6. Connect drive to Xbox 360 and format using System -> Memory -> Hard Drive -> press Y button, enter the serial number of the machine to allow it to format (you find it on the back of the machine or on System -> System information)
7. Move the drive to the computer again, connet to sata, restore the partition 2 image with File -> Restore Partition 2 in Xplorer360 xtreme 2
8. Drag all the files from the partition 3 file backup into partition 3 in Xplorer360 xtreme 2
9. Test drive in xbox 360, should show 107 GB total size and all the content should be restored successfully

XPLORER360 FULL IMAGE BACKUP METHOD
1. Complete step 1 and 2 above
2. Create a full image backup using File -> Backup Image in Xplorer360 xtreme 2
3. Complete step 5 above
4. Do full image restore using File -> Restore Image in Xplorer360 xtreme 2
5. Boot to ms-dos and execute hddhackr -f once again to write the hddss.bin to sector 16 again (its overwritten when restoring a full backup using Xplorer360)
6. Connect to Xbox 360, you will see that total space is ~13gb and none of the file files from the 20 GB backup shows up
7. Fix this by formatting in xbox 360, System -> Memory -> Hard Drive -> press Y button, enter the serial number to allow format
8. Open the full image in Xplorer360 xtreme 2 and select partition 3 and Edit -> Extract to create a backup of all the files
9. Connect disk to computer again, and drag all the files from the partition 3 file backup into partition 3 in Xplorer360 xtreme 2
10. Test drive in xbox 360, should show 107 GB total size and all the content should be restored successfully

MANUAL METHOD (summarised TheSpecialist way, tested and verified)
Complete step 1, 2 and 5 above under XPLORER360 IMAGE AND FILE BACKUP METHOD to backup the old drive and flash the new drive. Only when these steps are done, you can continue to create the partitions below.

Create partition 1:

If you want to use xplorer360 with the 120 WDBEVS drive, you can now do that:
1) First add the missing partition manually starting at byte 0x80000 of your WD BEVS. 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, registration required to allow write changes disk ) by pressing F9, select your WD BEVS 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 Beta 6 and the FATX error should be gone and you should see 2 partitions now. However, there'll be no data shown yet. if you are using a 120 gb version.

2) To get the data shown for an 120 gb wd BEVS, exit xplorer360 and fire up your hexeditor again, but this time open the xplorer360.exe itself with it. Make sure you're using the beta v6 version. At offset 0xF0C2 you'll find:
68 77 03

You need to change these 3 bytes into:
00 C2 1A

Save it (make a backup !), restart it and you can now see the contents of the WD BEVS 120 gb, at least I can.
BTW, this 'hack' won't work with the 20 gb version, so it's best to make a backup of the xplorer360.exe and use the 'unhacked' original version if you want to access a 20 gb hdd !

Create partition 2:

I did some analysis myself and got it working too  Here's how I did it:

1 Open your drive with Winhex (like described before)
2 Goto the menu/edit/define block. Choose beginning: 120EB1000 and end: 130EAFFFF and press 'ok'
3 Goto the menu/edit Fill block. Choose 'Fill with hex values', enter 00 and press 'ok'. This will clear the partition.
4. Now we have to add the partition headers. Goto offset 120EB0000 and edit to make it look like:

120EB0000 58 54 41 46 FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 01
120EB0010 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF

5. Save it. Now we're almost done, only have to fix up the 'cluster map'. To do this, goto offset 120EB1000 and edit it to make it look like:

120EB1000 FF FF FF F8 FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
120EB1010 FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Save it and then your drive will show partition 2 in xplorer360 ! Dump all files from partition 2 from some HDD that has the emulator on it (either a 20 gb or 120 gb, doesn't matter), save those files from partition 2 to your PC. Attach your WD BEVS drive, and drag the 'index' file alone first to partition 2! After you've added this particular first file, you can add the rest to the partition. After you've copied all files (you should be able to use all xplorer versions by the way, doesn't matter which one, hexedited/modded or not), your emulator should work.

Create Partition 3:

Format the drive in Xbox 360, System -> Memory -> Hard Drive -> Press Y button, and enter serial number to allow format.

Restore partition 2 and partition 3 as described above.

Hope this helps someone, at least I figured it out in the end.

-ivc

[Skinleech]

QUOTE(Skinleech @ Jul 8 2007, 09:28 AM)

blah blah blah

Ignore me.  I forgot to put hddss.bin on the floppy - had to make a new one as the original one was corrupted.  120gb working fine, with my original 20gb files intact on it.

Thanks for the tool, The Specialist.