Topic: TheSpecialist's HDDHackr v0.91 - Adds Support for WD BEVS-RST Drives (Read 5989 times)

Cyberlunacy · « **Reply #60 on:** May 16, 2007, 06:53:00 AM »

man thats freakin sweet.
my hat's off to you sir!

truetechnique · « **Reply #61 on:** May 16, 2007, 09:34:00 AM »

im talking about connecting to the xbox 360. is there any easier way for the core 360's other than the internal installation in the tutorial involving soldering???

thanks

TheSpecialist · « **Reply #62 on:** May 16, 2007, 11:08:00 AM »

QUOTE(truetechnique @ May 16 2007, 06:10 PM)

im talking about connecting to the xbox 360. is there any easier way for the core 360's other than the internal installation in the tutorial involving soldering???

thanks

Easier costs money

Easiest is to buy a 2nd hand 20 gb HDD on ebay, for about $20 (make sure they're selling the case too, lol !) or search for just the hdd case on ebay, i've seen them come by for $10

jhackman007 · « **Reply #63 on:** May 16, 2007, 02:24:00 PM »

Quick question, what is the difference between 1. flashing the WD 120GB with someone else 120GB HDDSS bin, and 2. using Xplorer360 to backup our own 20GB and restore it to the WD120?
Is that all about MS Live so we don't get banned?
Thanks
-JH

Cyberlunacy · « **Reply #64 on:** May 16, 2007, 03:12:00 PM »

QUOTE(jhackman007 @ May 16 2007, 04:00 PM)

Quick question, what is the difference between 1. flashing the WD 120GB with someone else 120GB HDDSS bin, and 2. using Xplorer360 to backup our own 20GB and restore it to the WD120?
Is that all about MS Live so we don't get banned?
Thanks
-JH

its all about the security sectors.
that little key that tells MS yup this is a real MS 120gig or 20gig drive.

imaging the 20 gig drive does nothing more than copies the files off the hard drive in a nice iso style format.
restoring the 20 gig to the 120gig is only used for taking all your game saves, profiles, xbox live arcade games, demos, and xbox backwards compatability off the 20 gig and putting them onto the 120gig.

its the same thing, to a degree, that the xbox transfer cable does.

TheSpecialist · « **Reply #65 on:** May 16, 2007, 09:58:00 PM »

QUOTE(Cyberlunacy @ May 16 2007, 11:48 PM)

its all about the security sectors.
that little key that tells MS yup this is a real MS 120gig or 20gig drive.

imaging the 20 gig drive does nothing more than copies the files off the hard drive in a nice iso style format.
restoring the 20 gig to the 120gig is only used for taking all your game saves, profiles, xbox live arcade games, demos, and xbox backwards compatability off the 20 gig and putting them onto the 120gig.

its the same thing, to a degree, that the xbox transfer cable does.

Exactly. The xbox asks the HDD to identify itself and the info the HDD returns should be the exact same as the info in the hddss.bin file. So, what the hddhackr does, is take that info and modify the hdd's firmware to match that info on sector 16. So when the xbox asks the HDD to identify itself, it will answer with the correct info. So the hddhacker modifies the info in the firmware. Copying an image does not.

So:

1. xbox read sector 16 from the HDD. This sector says for example that the drive should be a Fujitsi with serial number 12424242 and should contain 121311431 sectors.
2. xbox asks HDD to identify itself
3. xbox compares info on sector 16 to the identification info it received from the HDD's firmware
4. If these match, it will accept the HDD. If not, then it won't boot

And of course, the info on sector 16 is signed. Otherwise you could just simply edit that info to match the info in your FW (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

So what the hddhacker does: it takes a hddss.bin file, it writes the info in the file to sector 16 and modifes the firmware in the HDD to match exactly that info.

This post has been edited by TheSpecialist: May 17 2007, 05:04 AM

MasterMaw · « **Reply #66 on:** May 17, 2007, 03:17:00 PM »

The specialis, you are the better one!! My bevs now is ok!! and goes all!!

But, the head of the hdd does a weird noise when it is moved!

Why? it's dangerous? it' normal? tanks!!

TheSpecialist · « **Reply #67 on:** May 18, 2007, 12:21:00 PM »

Ok, here it is: http://rapidshare.com/files/32035087/Xplor...treme2.rar.html

This is the xplorer360 v6 pimped up by me to the 'extreme build 2' version, LOL.

First a disclaimer: this version might contain bugs and screw up your drive if you save changes to it. Therefore, it is ALWAYS advisable to make a backup of the files on partition 3 first !! Also it is advisable to have a backup of the whole 20 gb original HDD.

What's changed from the original V6 version:
* Now works correctly with both 20 gb AND 120 gb drives
* Now also works on WD BEVS drives which don't have all the needed partitions
* Added option to dump hddss.bin
* Added option to dump partition 2 to image
* Added option to restore image to partition 2

Of course, this version was mainly done to give you guys an easy way to transplant the emulator, which resides on partition 2. Here's how to do it:

1. Attach your original HDD (20 gb or 120 gb) which contains the emulator
2. Run this new version, open HDD and choose "backup partition 2". This should create a 262 MB file.
3. Shut down the computer (so don't 'hot' swap the HDD !), replace the HDD with the WD BEVS and reboot
4. Open the HDD with this new version. To be safe, first double click on partition 3 and extract all files to a directory on your PC, in case something goes wrong with this new version.
5. After you've made a backup of those files, now choose "restore partition 2" and select the 262 MB file you've created in step 2.
6. Restart the xplorer360 tool to see the new contents on partition 2 !

That's it !

Oh yeah, last thing: in order for your new WD BEVS to get detected in this xplorer360 version, it needs to have the partition 3 on it. This partition will exist if you've formatted the HDD in the 360 before. If you have never had the WD BEVS in your x360, then first format the drive in your x360. After that, this explorer360 will show 'partition 1' (this means it's missing partition 2) and then you can restore partition 2, restart and then you'll see partition 2 and 3.

Enjoy !

P.s This is an 'unofficial' release. The original xplorer360 is done by Angerwound and Roofus, so big credits to them. I made the changes listed above, without their participation and without having the source code.

This post has been edited by TheSpecialist: May 18 2007, 07:36 PM

ThePudster · « **Reply #68 on:** May 21, 2007, 02:09:00 AM »

Hi TheSpecialist and thanks for all the hard work and time you have done, but i have a problem....

Ok. I have a MS drive, ran hddhackr and got the hddss.bin file needed

Then connected my new WD800BEVS (LAT) drive and ran hddhackr -f this did it's magic and said all was well...

So I shutdown the PC and restarted it and ran hddhackr -f again but it said he info didn't match, and no matter how many times i've ran it it still wont work. the only thing i've noticed is the hddhackr program puts a space infront of the drive's ID, for example say the original is "s1234567890" the wd reports as " s1234567890" (notice the space).

Please could you help me out, i don't know why this is happening.....

Thanks Pudster...

TheSpecialist · « **Reply #69 on:** May 21, 2007, 04:54:00 AM »

@ThePudster, see your PM

silentnite2608 · « **Reply #70 on:** May 21, 2007, 07:39:00 PM »

When I open Hex workshop I get this.
When try to manually do the 16 -22 sector.

" This drive contains a layout irregularity- the partition (234436545 sectors) appears to be larger then volume (234441648). This is likely a corrupt drive or some form of copy protection."

Than It lets me in to the hex workshop but I doubt my making my own hddss.bin is really working please help.
120GB WD LAT Version

This post has been edited by silentnite2608: May 22 2007, 02:41 AM

ThePudster · « **Reply #71 on:** May 22, 2007, 03:55:00 AM »

QUOTE(TheSpecialist @ May 21 2007, 12:30 PM)

@ThePudster, see your PM (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Thanks Specialist, you realy are the best, works a treat now...

Thanks Pudster.....

TheSpecialist · « **Reply #72 on:** May 22, 2007, 08:12:00 AM »

QUOTE(silentnite2608 @ May 22 2007, 04:15 AM)

When I open Hex workshop I get this.
When try to manually do the 16 -22 sector.

" This drive contains a layout irregularity- the partition (234436545 sectors) appears to be larger then volume (234441648). This is likely a corrupt drive or some form of copy protection."

Than It lets me in to the hex workshop but I doubt my making my own hddss.bin is really working please help.
120GB WD LAT Version

That 'error' in Hex Workshop is normal, just ignore it. No need to manually make your own hddss.bin file, with the modified xplorer360 example, that i posted in this thread a few posts above yours, you can do it very easily too.

QUOTE(ThePudster @ May 22 2007, 12:31 PM)

Thanks Specialist, you realy are the best, works a treat now...

Thanks Pudster.....

Good to hear it all worked out

xbox360sexual · « **Reply #73 on:** May 23, 2007, 03:03:00 PM »

I appear to be having trouble with flashing my drive.

It's a 120GB WD BEVS 1200 RST, connected via a SIL3112. It's recognised by hddhackr but when I try to flash it says "drive not compatible, please check it's a WD BEVS etc..."

Any help appreciated!

rolly poly · « **Reply #74 on:** May 23, 2007, 04:55:00 PM »

almost the same as the above guy

sil3112 pci card, wd1200bevs lat

same error drive not compatible.

any idea whats going on?

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