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[Fermbiz]

Can someone me..the noob??  Ive been trying for the past 4 nights to boot up using the USB drive but its just not happening.  Gave up on that and decided to put DOS on a floppy.  Copied and paste hddss.bin to the floppy and I boot up to DOS.  At the A prompt I type run hddhackr -f and i keep getting bad command.  I tried different DOS programs but nothing is working.  What am I doing wrong?

Thx in advance.

[Benjams33]

I can't drag and drop my saved games into partition 3 on the new 120gb hdd. I have tryed using xplorer360 beta6 or extreme 2 and both dont work.  Does anyone have any ideas on what i am doing wrong?  

Thanks for the tutorial.

[vlj9r]

QUOTE(Fermbiz @ Nov 15 2008, 01:43 AM)

Can someone me..the noob??  Ive been trying for the past 4 nights to boot up using the USB drive but its just not happening.  Gave up on that and decided to put DOS on a floppy.  Copied and paste hddss.bin to the floppy and I boot up to DOS.  At the A prompt I type run hddhackr -f and i keep getting bad command.  I tried different DOS programs but nothing is working.  What am I doing wrong?

Thx in advance.

make sure there is a copy of hddhackr in the floppy.

[Fermbiz]

QUOTE(vlj9r @ Nov 16 2008, 01:30 PM)

make sure there is a copy of hddhackr in the floppy.

Yea...I figured that out last night.  For some reason thought the hddhackr was for something else.  

I borrowed an extra 20 gig hdd from a friend and used that to swap out drives.  Then I used the MS transfer kit to brng my whole profile, saves, and dlc over to my brand new 120 gig .

got 90gb left and I only paid 60 bucks for it.

[ichiban06]

if i don't have a 20GB drive to make a image of partition 2 how do i make the xbox 1 games work on the 120GB hard drive?

[rlanza1054]

Hi all!

I've been reading this forum and several others.  I want to try this mod if I can.  I originally read an article in PC World about doing this and had started to follow their instructions but now after read this forum, I'm afraid that the PC World article may have left out a few details.

So here is what I want to try.

First, I ordered my Western Digital Drive that came about 2 weeks ago.  Yeah, yeah.. spent to much time being scared.

I had downloaded hddhackr and now have version .91, and I download the HP USB bootable utility that was described in the PC World article.  And that works, I can boot from the USB drive, and I made a regular floppy and that works too.

I  downloaded a 'hddss.bin' file, just in case I didn't want to use a 120gb xbox drive to try and Winhex it.  That's the part that scares me.

I tried to do it today, and after I rebooted, the USB was no longer bootable and I used the floppy and ran it again and it said something about the serial number not being correct and failed to perform the operation.

So the only thing that I can figure is that the hddss.bin file I used was not a good one, and might have actually contained a virus that caused my USB drive not to boot any longer.

So I am starting all over again.  I recreated my USB bootable drive, copied to it hddhackr file, as I said this time I made sure I have what I think is the latest, version .91.

Here is my situation, I have two Xbox's, one is an Elite with the 120gb drive and the other is a Pro with a 60gb drive.

So I do have the ability to do that Winhex on my 120gb drive to get a hddss.bin file and then I would know  that the two drives would really never be on the xbox system at the same time.  One Xbox is my living room and the other is in my bedroom.

But because I'm scared of doing the Winhex thing, and because I want void only one of the warranty's of the two xbox systems.  If I open and take out the 120gb hard drive and mess that up I'm screwed.

I would rather only mess up the 60gb drive if any at all.

And yes, one would say if I'm not comfortable then don't do the hack.

I will do it, I just want to know that you are all out there to help me if I run into problems and to guide me.


I did order the transfer cable from MS, but if I use that to help in copying over the drive's image will I still be able to use the drive that the copy was made from (in this case the 60gb drive, not that I would really use it again if this works).  MS said that you can use the transfer cable but you can only transfer a drive once.  What does that mean?  What does that transfer utility really do?

Now there was also in the instructions listed here (page 1) that I need to do run "Xplorer360 Beta 6 (you may also be able to use the "extreme build 2" version)"  Do I really need to use this?

I do have a memory unit for the Xbox box as well.  I actually have my gametag and game saves on the memory unit.  This is how I play on each of my two xbox's.  If I'm in the bedroom, I pull the card out and plug it in in the living room if I want to play there.

I had been doing the gametag recover each time I move from system to system.  But then I discovered that I can just use the memory unit and move that only.  A lot easier!

Ok before I write a book and then no one read this, I will end this tonight.

I'm going in the morning, try again the hddhackr and see if that works with the new hddss.bin once, if not I will open my 120gb drive and try the winhex method.

At that point I will definitely need all your help!

I thank you in advance for you help and I guess encouragement.

Rob

[rlanza1054]

Hi again,

I just wanted to add something to my previous posting.

I had gotten a MS data transfer cable and read in the other thread on this system that you can use the data transfer cable to get the hddss.bin file from a 120gb drive without opening up the xbox drive and without breaking the seal.

Is this true.  How would I do this, I just watch a video that explains how to do a data transfer and that is only hooking up the extra drive to an xbox usb port.

So how would you run winhex?

Can you plug this data transfer cable up to a PC and get access to the hard drive that way.  Because MS's instructions says if you connect this cable to a PC you could damage the PC or hard drive?

Does anyone know if this can be done safely?  And if it's at all possible.

Boy, I would love to be able to do get the hddss.bin file without having to open or break the seal on this drive, and hence not void my warranty.

Thanks again!

Rob

[chrysilis]

QUOTE(ntriusbil @ Nov 13 2008, 08:32 AM)

* - My Fable 2 save is "corrupt." I'm guessing that is due to the hardware signing. I would really like some education on this. I can see that the "scene" frowns on this because of the cheating implications, but I would really like my Fable 2 save back. On the other hand, I don't want the big MS to think I'm cheating and jeopardize my account either. Anyone have any thoughts?

I also have this problem everything else works fine. Did you manage to solve the issue?

[dangerouseddy]

well i sucessfully flashed my bevs hd, does anybody know where i could get hold of the cable that goes from the hd to the xbox?  ive lost mine.

[thr4773r]

QUOTE(rlanza1054 @ Nov 18 2008, 01:27 AM)

Hi again,

I just wanted to add something to my previous posting.

I had gotten a MS data transfer cable and read in the other thread on this system that you can use the data transfer cable to get the hddss.bin file from a 120gb drive without opening up the xbox drive and without breaking the seal.

Is this true.  How would I do this, I just watch a video that explains how to do a data transfer and that is only hooking up the extra drive to an xbox usb port.

So how would you run winhex?

Can you plug this data transfer cable up to a PC and get access to the hard drive that way.  Because MS's instructions says if you connect this cable to a PC you could damage the PC or hard drive?

Does anyone know if this can be done safely?  And if it's at all possible.

Boy, I would love to be able to do get the hddss.bin file without having to open or break the seal on this drive, and hence not void my warranty.

Thanks again!

Rob

Yes it works without removing the drive from the shell.

Use the MS Transfer cable as previously stated and use either winhex to copy sectors 16-22, or use the specialist's xplorer360 extreme 2 version. Either way works.

The warnings from MS are negligible. If you don't have a separate power source connected (with floating grounds being a problem) or draw too much current from your USB, what damage could you do? You can overwrite data of course, but do not write to your original disk when you connect it, and remove the drive when you are done and you should be ok.

[rlanza1054]

Ok just need everyone's opinion.

After a lot of reading last night, I'm trying again.

This is what I am doing right now .. I have the MS data transfer cable.

I tried to attach it to my 120gb drive and plug the other end into my laptop USB port.

My laptop saw the drive but could not mount for the obvious reason, it was formatted for something that XP doesn't understand.

I run a program called Xplorer 360 (hopefully the latest version).

I try to see if it could see the xbox 120gb drive (that xp does not see) and yes it does.

So as suggested, I used the drop down menu and selected to make a hddss.bin file.  It worked.

So my first question, this is a pure hddss.bin file for a 120gb drive.  It should be good and my next step should be to run hddhackr on the Western Digital Drive.

Also, there was an option to copy or backup to an image file, the whole 120gb xbox drive.  I'm doing that now.

And yes, I see the 3 partitions.

Wow, I'm so close!

Frankly, I wanted this to get working today before they send out the new experience upgrade on the 19th, which is later tonight.

Please someone, try and verify if I'm doing OK so far?

I'm a little scared that I won't be able to create those other partitions.

Rob

[thr4773r]

you'd be better off backing up a 20gb image than a 120gb. The 20 GB image ends up being about 18GB when you're done, the 120, probably about 114GB or so.

Recovering a 20gb image to my newly hacked hard drive was the easiest way to get the other partitions onto my 120GB hard drives. Of course if you do it this way, you have to re-flash the WD drive with hddhackr again. After flashing the hddss.bin and getting a working drive, recover your 20gb image, boot into hddhackr again, Undo the flash, reboot, and then run hddhackr to re-flash your drive with the hddss.bin. Don't make another undo.bin, but after this final flash, the drive will be recognized in your 360 with all partitions there.

Format the drive in your 360, and play away!!

[jyrisa]

It has copyed Cache folder at least an hour for now. Should I be worryed or should I just sit back and wait?

[rlanza1054]

OK so far things seem to be going well, not real gotcha's yet! Fingers crossed.

The Xpolorer is still copying the 120gb ... more than an hour how.  But it hasn't died.

And thr4773r if that message was meant for me, yeah now that I see it working, your probably right, I should have copied the drive that's really being replaced which is a 60gb drive.  It would not take as long to do the copy.

I am going to copy the 60gb anyway just to be safe and have an emergency copy of both.

I did the Hddhackr and it finally came up with that wonderful message, your drive will work on an xbox 360.

The next thing I am doing, I watched a video on how to take apart the hard drive out of it's protect case, no problem there (but almost lost the 'spring').

I then attached the new Western Digital to the drive casing unit (without screwing it all together) and installed it on my xbox and tried to see if it recognized it and then did a format.

I am going to have a question.  Because, it seems when you format the drive, it wants the serial number of the console entered.

Does that mean when I restore my 120gb image (that I am copying now) to get all the partitions installed correctly do I have to be concerned about this console serial number?

thr4773r, maybe I should have just restored the 60gb drive then it will have the correct consoles serial number.  But then I would have to run hddhackr again to fake the back into being a 120gb drive.

Any comments at this point?

Rob

[thr4773r]

Some files cannot be copied using xplorer360. If you have trouble where it hangs like this, you'll have to start copying in smaller groups of information to where you can identify the problem files.