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[xbox360sexual]

Ok, just tried the VIA. Now a different error. After the "block 16 press Y" message I get "drive has no ID data" or something like that

[TheSpecialist]

That error means that the drive is not sending any data when it should. I really can't think of any other explanation than a hardware failure, but that also seems weird to me ... Maybe your SATA cable is not correct or the connector on the HDD is faulty or something like that ... Not sure if you have access to a completely other system on which you can try it, I'd try that. There seems to be going something wrong with the data transmission.

Are you running true 'ms-dos' and not some 'dr dos' or some other dos clone ? And what ms-dos version are you using ? Also, make sure you've deleted the config.sys and autoexec.bat from the floppy you're booting from.

[mikey808]

Many thanks to TheSpecialist for all his hard work on making it possible to add your own hard drive. A great bit of modding.
If you do have time to modify Xplorer360 extreme2, to additionally handle extraction from images, I'd be keen to use that feature too.

Also Antman1 thanks for the extra help about how to use the 20Gb image.
I'll find time to do it in the next few days, and then I'll report back on how it all went.

[xbox360sexual]

First I used a Win98 floppy disc, then I went in to MSDOS via Windows98. So the drive appears to respond via the SIL card and doesn't respond at all to the VIA.. :/

The SATA cables used ate 30cm long ones that come bundled with the cards. The HD appears fine in WindowsXP and I can read and write to it.

I don't have access to another system with SATA so I'll give up for now. Thanks TheSpecialist for all your help

[jhackman007]

QUOTE(Antman1 @ May 26 2007, 01:25 PM)

yes quite possible.  and as a matter of fact do that then restore your hddss.bin back to the 120gb hddss.bin cause it will be overwritten once restored then place the drive in the 360 and let it format and you will notice partition2 is already on the drive and ready to go!  

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

[TheSpecialist]

QUOTE(jhackman007 @ May 29 2007, 12:53 AM)

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

Hi,

Not sure why the progress bar doesn't run... It should. Now, what you could do, as you have not put any data yet on your 120 gb: dump the whole 20 gb HDD to an image and write that 20 gb hdd back to your x360. Run the hddhackr again, format the drive again in your x360 and it will contain the emulator/partition 2.

[jhackman007]

Another question:  MS started banning "hacked" XBOX360 from MS Live.  Has anyone got banned from MS by upgrading their 20GB to 120GB using the hddss.bin and/or the Explorer360 E2?  Just wondering if I should be disconnecting my network cable after upgrading to my 120GB HD.

[jhackman007]

QUOTE(TheSpecialist @ May 28 2007, 06:56 PM)

Hi,

Not sure why the progress bar doesn't run... It should. Now, what you could do, as you have not put any data yet on your 120 gb: dump the whole 20 gb HDD to an image and write that 20 gb hdd back to your x360. Run the hddhackr again, format the drive again in your x360 and it will contain the emulator/partition 2.

Thanks TheSpecialist.
I did what you stated, backup the 20GB into an image, and then restore the image on the WD120.  After this step done, instead of running the hddhackr, I decided to re-start explorer360, and restore Partition2 on my WD120.  THis time, it worked, I was able to restore Partition2 (remember it did not work before).  I then manually copied all the backup files to Partition3.  Rebooted and run hddhackr, and finally, had all my files/profiles on the new WD120.  
I logged in to Xbox Live successful, (did not get banned).  I could download games fine, but somehow, I could not get any video nor trailers.  Is this an issue for upgrading the HD?
Thanks
-JH

[skye001]

if you manually copied the profiles.. you might have to copy the DLC folder which is for downloaded content.. been reading it on 360gamesaves.. im gna give it a whirl.. had a problem restoring an orginal image of 20gb onto 20gb bev.. workd once but never again.. but ye you might need to make the DLC folder..

[jhackman007]

QUOTE(skye001 @ May 31 2007, 05:38 PM)

if you manually copied the profiles.. you might have to copy the DLC folder which is for downloaded content.. been reading it on 360gamesaves.. im gna give it a whirl.. had a problem restoring an orginal image of 20gb onto 20gb bev.. workd once but never again.. but ye you might need to make the DLC folder..

How comes this works for games but not videos?  I don't recall seeing a DLC folder, have to check again.  Doesn't the backup of Partition2 suppose to take this folder and restore it on the target drive? Just wondering.

[dropper]

A few of things I have noticed through my many attempts to get a successful "transfer".

Just about all content is in the '0000000000000000' directory under Partition 3\Content, including media files, like the Cameron video.

You may get some DRM problems if you copy the FFFE07D1 and the FFFE07DF folders from your old drive.  What I eventually did, was format my drive (post Parting 2 creation), d/l a DRM show like South Park to the fresh drive which recreated the above 2 directories.  I then went back to Xplorer360 and copied everything else (except the Cache) back to the fresh drive.

I did have trouble at first having the Xbox recognize the new drive after I restored the full image back to get Partition 2 set.  The only way I could get this to work, was to undo the bin and redo it to the modded one.


A question for TheSpecialist:  It does apear that a straight up PNG file is attached to those sectors (16-22) and that it doesn't change, no matter the drive maker nor size.  (checked my 20g (hitachi) and the 2 different 120g Fuji's.   Looking at the structure of the sectors, there does seem to be a consistancy amoung the lead in with the name, some sort of header and then I would assume that the next part is the signed part you talk about.

My question is, could you tool just target the part that is actually changing and then allow us to get the Microsoft Logo (the PNG) file from our existing 20GB drive?  Would this not allow us to get around the copyright issue, or is the signed part in the begining also considered copyrightable?  

I guess this was all pointing towards someone getting a bunch of the hashes together (without the infringing MS logo) to see if they could perhaps see how it was created.


Also, very dumb question  did you try just changing the text at the beginning to match the drive and see what would happen (I think you already answered that)?


Keith

[FiJ]

QUOTE(xbox360sexual @ May 27 2007, 01:10 PM)

First I used a Win98 floppy disc, then I went in to MSDOS via Windows98. So the drive appears to respond via the SIL card and doesn't respond at all to the VIA.. :/

The SATA cables used ate 30cm long ones that come bundled with the cards. The HD appears fine in WindowsXP and I can read and write to it.

I don't have access to another system with SATA so I'll give up for now. Thanks TheSpecialist for all your help

Hi, I'm experiencing exactly the same problems with a wd1200bevs22lat0 firstly with  a sil3112r and also with a via chipset.  

In both cases when I hit the y key it returns the cannot write to drive message.  I am plain booted to dos from floppy.

Calling ..   The Specialist!

FiJ

[dropper]

A follow-up question:  Does the 360 check the "Microsoft" logo on the 16-22 sectors?  It appears to be the image that is displayed on the Memory blade.  I think it would be interesting to change it only and see what happens, since it appears to be a standard PNG file.

Keith

[TheSpecialist]

QUOTE(dropper @ Jun 7 2007, 02:03 AM)

A follow-up question:  Does the 360 check the "Microsoft" logo on the 16-22 sectors?  It appears to be the image that is displayed on the Memory blade.  I think it would be interesting to change it only and see what happens, since it appears to be a standard PNG file.

Keith

yeah the x360 just checks for it, that's all (and of course checks the signature for it).

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Hi, I'm experiencing exactly the same problems with a wd1200bevs22lat0 firstly with a sil3112r and also with a via chipset.

In both cases when I hit the y key it returns the cannot write to drive message. I am plain booted to dos from floppy.

Calling .. The Specialist!

FiJ

Yeah, in this thread were some other people with the same problem. I can't replicate it. I feel it's a SATA card thing. Please, if any of you with this problem has access to other SATA controllers (like intel or nForce), please try that and let me know if it works on one of these.

[FiJ]

QUOTE(TheSpecialist @ Jun 7 2007, 06:15 PM)

Yeah, in this thread were some other people with the same problem. I can't replicate it. I feel it's a SATA card thing. Please, if any of you with this problem has access to other SATA controllers (like intel or nForce), please try that and let me know if it works on one of these.

The answer is en emphatic YES!

Took it to work, tried the same setup on a different VIA embedded controller, worked like a charm first time!

Many thanks, TS, you're the man.