Topic: Tutorial For Upgrading Xbox 360 From 20gb To 120gb Using The Western D (Read 1644 times)

OldBomb · « **Reply #105 on:** December 06, 2008, 02:45:00 AM »

Awww shit

I ripped hddssbin from my 20gb with hddhackr because i was curious, put my hdd back in the box and now its not being detected

slimjim604 · « **Reply #106 on:** December 10, 2008, 02:34:00 PM »

If I don't need to copy data from a old 20gb HD...

steps 1-8 is all I need to follow correct?

Reaper527 · « **Reply #107 on:** December 10, 2008, 03:08:00 PM »

QUOTE(indus49 @ Dec 2 2008, 09:36 AM)

Hey all - new to the forum... looking to try this out. 2 Questions:

1. Does the swap (and the freq. passed around hddss.bin file) play nicely with the new NXE?

2. Plain and simple, what are the big risks in doing this hack?

Thanks

1. it plays fine

2. at the current time, there are no risks. in the future, ms COULD use this as a method for banning (though i personally think this is very unlikely for pr reasons, they could technically detect it)

SimplexPL · « **Reply #108 on:** December 10, 2008, 04:32:00 PM »

Sorry if this was already mentioned, but there is a really good tutorial here;
http://beta.ivancover.com/wiki/index.php/Xbox_360_Hard_Drive_Upgrade

It helped my upgrade two 20gb drives to 120gb. As a side note - both 20gb drives are no longer recognized by any console.

idiotechnick · « **Reply #109 on:** December 10, 2008, 04:57:00 PM »

QUOTE(SimplexPL @ Dec 11 2008, 07:08 AM)

Sorry if this was already mentioned, but there is a really good tutorial here;
http://beta.ivancove...d_Drive_Upgrade

It helped my upgrade two 20gb drives to 120gb. As a side note - both 20gb drives are no longer recognized by any console.

Seem xplorer 360 not yet compatible with all 20 gb hdd. Lets just pray that thespecialist make some improvement that make 20 gb dead can be alive again. (at least keep the ss bin thing for future)

randytech2 · « **Reply #110 on:** December 11, 2008, 05:45:00 PM »

Help, I flashed the drive & everytime I reboot it tells me I need to flash again. I had to use hex edit on hddhackr.com just to get it to see my hard.drive. I am stumped; is there a solution to my problem?

idiotechnick · « **Reply #111 on:** December 12, 2008, 12:05:00 AM »

QUOTE(randytech2 @ Dec 12 2008, 08:21 AM)

Help, I flashed the drive & everytime I reboot it tells me I need to flash again. I had to use hex edit on hddhackr.com just to get it to see my hard.drive. I am stumped; is there a solution to my problem?

Try this. After u flash. Turn off the pc and unplug the drive! dont reboot again to dos! Sometimes the mobo post make the ss messed!

Gamer · « **Reply #112 on:** December 19, 2008, 08:52:00 AM »

Thanks for the tutorial.

My setup was using a 120GB WD drive (model 22USTO).
I made a USB flash drive to boot to dos as I don't have a floppy anymore.
After flashing hddss.bin to drive, every single time I rebooted to check if drive was okay...all serial numbers, models etc matched on screen but it reported the drive was mismatched. It wouldn't get recognised in Xbox.
Flashed again but didn't reboot to check drive...just switched off PC and plugged drive into console. Now it was recognised by console. Formatted in console fine.
Had to use Winhex to edit 0x80000 address as only partition 1 could be seen in Xplorer360, nothing else.
After editing in Winhex, partition 3 could be seen, allowing for restoring partition 2 from backup.
Transferred everything else to partition 3.
Everything works 100% now.

Thanks again for the good guide.

Jred · « **Reply #113 on:** December 22, 2008, 01:35:00 AM »

So, all has worked except one little problem.

Yesterday, flashed to the hdds.bin for a 120gb on a 120 DEVS. All worked. Used winhex and made modification, and then restored Partition2. all went well. Created partition 3 via winhex and it shows up fine. copied folders i backed up from partition3 on my 20gb drive and all seemed. well. All downloaded content is still there.

1 problem.....

when I load up rock band 2, it no longer loads the profile. in fact, i get that there was an error loading the profile off of the disk. i then started a new band and went to save, and it said there was an unknown error saving the game. in both instances it said the storage device was no longer available.

What did i do wrong when i copied stuff off of partition 3?

I can say that I didn't copy the folder back in the same order i copied them off of the 20gb drive in, but i can't see how that matters.

also, something to note, i'm running NXE, and was before the copy. also, when i started up the new drive after the restore, it said there was a console update, and it looked like NXE reinstalling itself.

Please help. I still have my original 20gb drive and my original backup of it.

SimplexPL · « **Reply #114 on:** December 22, 2008, 01:40:00 AM »

Saves of some games (e.g. Forza Motorsport) are protected against unofficial copying to a different storage device. Perhaps this game is protected too.

windy3001 · « **Reply #115 on:** December 22, 2008, 09:19:00 AM »

QUOTE(guyver0 @ Nov 6 2008, 08:25 PM)

i have an intel d945plrn motherboard that im connecting my bevs with, however after booting into hddhackr -f [using an hp boot flash disk] it searches in enhanced mode first and then legacy mode and then says enter the nr of the drive to be used, numbers between 1-4 im stuck here

I'm having the same problem, I know the reply was something about using a hexeditor to edit hddhackr. I was wondering if anyone had an easy to follow method of doing this?

Morticae · « **Reply #116 on:** December 23, 2008, 07:11:00 PM »

Anybody with experience doing this in Vista?

From my understanding Vista doesn't have DOS and you can't create a boot disk... wondering what people did to get around this. The computer available to me has Vista so I am kind of stuck with using it.

Martinchris23 · « **Reply #117 on:** December 24, 2008, 02:21:00 AM »

QUOTE(Morticae @ Dec 24 2008, 02:47 AM)

Anybody with experience doing this in Vista?

From my understanding Vista doesn't have DOS and you can't create a boot disk... wondering what people did to get around this. The computer available to me has Vista so I am kind of stuck with using it.

You can download utilities to create DOS bootable devices from the web.

http://www.bootdisk.com/ is just one site i found by searching 'DOS bootable disc vista'

Morticae · « **Reply #118 on:** December 24, 2008, 02:41:00 AM »

QUOTE(Martinchris23 @ Dec 24 2008, 01:57 AM)

You can download utilities to create DOS bootable devices from the web.

http://www.bootdisk.com/ is just one site i found by searching 'DOS bootable disc vista'

Haha. I went to that site twice while I was searching and came to the conclusion it couldn't help me... but you are right. I created a disc and was able to boot it up. I'll give this tutorial a whirl. Thanks!

outlaw_irish · « **Reply #119 on:** December 25, 2008, 06:33:00 PM »

I know this is a noob question but what program do i need to run the xplorer360 extreme build 2? when i click what i downloaded it says that i need additional software to open the .rar file. should i download winzip, winace or rarlab winrar or some other program??? please help

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