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QUOTE(gutterball @ Jan 23 2009, 01:31 AM)

I tried the hex editing and I could not get it to work.  I used the info in post #30 by thr4773r and was able to get my 120G going without any hex editing at all.

Basically:

Xplorer360 to create full image of your 20G.
Xplorer360 to extract contents of partition 3 to your PC (I skipped the cache, but I think it's okay to extract).
hddhackr -f on the 120G, create undo and flash.
hddhackr -f on the 120G to confirm.
Format 120G on your 360, will show 107G free and only 1 partition in Xplorer360.
Xplorer360 to restore your 20G image to the formatted 120G, all 3 partitions should now be present, but with the 20G hddss.bin file so it won't show proper free space.
hddhackr -f on the 120G again, (no undo, if it asks), should automatically flash 120G hdd and confirm working.
Format 120G again on 360, should now show 107G free.
Xplorer360 to move the files back onto partition 3 of your new 120G.

Good luck!

Thanks, for some reason letting it restore the 20gb image in xplorer360 to the 120gb then the following steps allowed my partition 3 to work properly. The guide i followed had that as an alternative method which i didnt try as there wasn't much difference as restoring it wouldnt leave data on it, due to re formatting, i didnt try that initally.
Anyway Happy Chappy now:)

Thx mate

[merciscool]

Hi everyone, I'm new here.

Anyway, I read every post in this topic from page 1-11 and I have a few questions that I didn't see answered or not in depth enough to give me a complete answer.

First off, what I'm trying to do is format the WDBEVS HDD I purchased so that it works with the 360. A friend of mine gave me his old 20GB 360HDD so that I actually already have his blank HDD as another shell and don't have to open up my original 20GB HDD with all my game saves/files and replace that with the 120GB.

So I hope you guys can clear up these questions for me as others have asked them in this topic too, but hadn't been really addressed so far.

1) I don't have access to a tower type of PC, so as a few others have already asked in this topic, can I do this with a laptop without removing the laptop's internal HDD? There are various ports such as an eSata on the laptop and I want to know if it's possible and if so, how to hook the WDBEVS HDD up, which port would make this possible.

2) I called microsoft and told them I needed the migration kit, so that they would send me the transfer cable and CD. It worked, even though I don't have an elite or a 120GB HDD and plan on just copying my files from my 20GB HDD to my custom created 120GB HDD. So I've seen a few people say that this method will work using the migration transfer cable, but I guess what I want to know is, will everything from my 20GB official HDD transfer to my newly formatted custom 120GB HDD? I don't want to lose anything.

3)If so, what steps in the listed tutorials are not necessary if using a migration kit method?

and finally

4) What are the pros and cons to using the migration cable? What I mean is, I noticed no one answered the question about the cable on a previous page about how the cable claims to be a ONE TIME data transfer. Does this mean that when you use the cable, it will then erase the original source 20GB drive once it's copied the files to the new HDD? This information could be useful for those who are using the migration kit, because it might be wise to backup the 20GB HDD to a computer in case of any errors during transfer.

I think answers to these questions will clear up pretty much the only questions I didn't see resolved from this topic!

Thanks in advance!

[tmsmith]

BIG thanks for this!

Worked like a charm. Hardest part was getting back together at the end.  

[tmsmith]

QUOTE(tmsmith @ Jan 28 2009, 11:34 PM)

BIG thanks for this!

Worked like a charm. Hardest part was getting back together at the end.  

Didn't see an edit button, but I wanted to add that I was able to do all the steps in Vista 64bit. All I had to do was get my Flashdrive bootable.  

Hope this cleared some worries.  

[happygizmo11]

Hey guys, quick question. How would I go about this if I had lets say a broken 20gb hard drive I wanted to do this to. So basically I cant get anything off the 20gb. Would this still be possible?

[tmsmith]

QUOTE(happygizmo11 @ Feb 1 2009, 11:24 AM)

Hey guys, quick question. How would I go about this if I had lets say a broken 20gb hard drive I wanted to do this to. So basically I cant get anything off the 20gb. Would this still be possible?

I wish I could help but I'm not exactly sure what you are asking. If it is broken, chances are it will be unrecoverable. You can try and follow the steps and at least see if you can get the data off the 20GB (if thats what you are trying to get the stuff off your Xbox 20GB). If not, you can try the whole trick with sticking it in the freezer (in a plastic ziploc bag) and try and recover it using Xplorer.

[k2xtrEm]

If I do not want the data from the 20gb drive can I just stop after I have formatted the 120gb in the 360?

[early105]

QUOTE(tmsmith @ Jan 28 2009, 11:34 PM)

BIG thanks for this!

Worked like a charm. Hardest part was getting back together at the end.  

Pal, I can't agree anymore, since I almost at the end; but I get stuck to move the files in partition 3 back to the new 120G HD which is already formatted and recognized by the xbox 360, as well as the partition 2 was restored from 20G image, and the partition 3 can be seen by the xplorer360 in Vista 32 that run under administrator and compactible to XP mode.

My problem is I cannot drag and drop the backup files (partition 3 files from PC to xplorer360), xplorer360 does not allowed; Then, I used the command from the tool bar "Insert Folder", however, it's still NOTHING appeared in the new 120HDD even it showed up "Injecting Folder" during the process.

What steps should I do and what I have missed? please advice me & help...Thank you.

[early105]

QUOTE(early105 @ Feb 8 2009, 07:23 PM)

Pal, I can't agree anymore, since I almost at the end; but I get stuck to move the files in partition 3 back to the new 120G HD which is already formatted and recognized by the xbox 360, as well as the partition 2 was restored from 20G image, and the partition 3 can be seen by the xplorer360 in Vista 32 that run under administrator and compactible to XP mode.

My problem is I cannot drag and drop the backup files (partition 3 files from PC to xplorer360), xplorer360 does not allowed; Then, I used the command from the tool bar "Insert Folder", however, it's still NOTHING appeared in the new 120HDD even it showed up "Injecting Folder" during the process.

What steps should I do and what I have missed? please advice me & help...Thank you.

Finally, it seems I found a solution, it's not perfect but it works.

As I read some other threads that someone mentioned putting the index file back first may help. YES! it really works, but the content, the folder I selected to inject, didn't show up immediately after the process finished. I need to close the xplorer360 and reopen it, then the injected contents show up in the NEW 120G HD.

Thus, I also wanna share my setup and configuration for people who have chance to read my experience, and hope they would get help.

WD 120G BEVS - 22RST0
WINDOWS VISTA 32 with a NVIDIA 122-CK-NF68 MB, thus, nforce SATA
xplorer360 xtreme build 2 (for the whole process)
hddhackr v091
Thumb drive boot-up.

I did do everything as the OP did, thanks pal.
and, also did what gutterball did (in post #145)

However, I did spend 3 nights, almost 3 hours every night, to complete the whole upgrade thing that, of course, is including the searching time and the reading time.

oh, yea, my 20G HD is still able to be read by the 360.

[early105]

Just checked the saves.

As the people said, Fable 2 is unable to be read.

But I found another game that also cannot be read or also corrupted. it's "The Last Remnant"! Holly! it's a long game! I almost spend 50hr+ on this game but still haven't finished yet!

I start thinking a Memory Unit...Man, it costs $40        
M$

For people who are playing this game, TLR, Highly recommend you finish it first. You know, it's really long!

[CocoaPistolero]

I accidentally ran hddhackr -f with a 120GB hddss.bin on my 20GB Hitachi instead of my 120GB WD (wasn't paying attention to which drive was hooked up), now the 360 doesn't even recognize this hard drive.  Not that I plan to use the 20GB again immediately, but I'd like to know what I have to do to fix this.  I don't know that holding onto the data on the drive is that important, I just want to get the drive in working order again.  Can someone help me out?

[DarkManX4lf]

This is a great tutorial, but I'm just not sure about one part.  So you flash the 120gb hard drive with hddss.bin and you plug it into the 360 and format it.  Once this is done I dont understand why we have to hex edit the 120gb drive?  What is the reason for that?  Is this so you can copy your old files from the 20gb ?

Also is there a list of saved games that do not work after upgrading to a 120gb hdd by using this method?

So far the games reported are:

Fable II
Rockband 2


Any others?

This post has been edited by DarkManX4lf: Feb 13 2009, 03:27 AM

[ZprivateZ]

I flashed my WD1200BEVS drive using hddhackr then formated the drive using the 360 then went threw the initial setup and made an offlline profile then put back in pc and copied the content folder from partiton 3 from my old 20gb hdd using Xplorer360_extreme2 and i was good to go i never had to hex edit anything and everything works fine.

[hobartrus]

QUOTE(DarkManX4lf @ Feb 12 2009, 08:43 PM)

This is a great tutorial, but I'm just not sure about one part.  So you flash the 120gb hard drive with hddss.bin and you plug it into the 360 and format it.  Once this is done I dont understand why we have to hex edit the 120gb drive?  What is the reason for that?  Is this so you can copy your old files from the 20gb ?

Essentially, yes.  The "original" version of Xplorer360 Beta 6 would not access the BEVS drive without making the changes to the drive and the program using the hex editor.

It's my understanding that the "extreme build 2" version of the software eliminated the need for the hex editing... however, when I was originally upgrading my drive and got to the point that I needed to access the drive in Xplorer360, I didn't know about the "extreme build 2" version... so I made the changes to the drive and the program using the hex editor.

Then, when it came time to write the tutorial, I wanted to make sure I documented every step I took exactly as I took them so that the process could be repeated by others.  I didn't want to assume that the hex editing was no longer necessary, which is why I included it in my tutorial.  I did, however, made sure to note that it might not be necessary.

[DarkManX4lf]

QUOTE(hobartrus @ Feb 13 2009, 04:16 PM)

Essentially, yes.  The "original" version of Xplorer360 Beta 6 would not access the BEVS drive without making the changes to the drive and the program using the hex editor.

It's my understanding that the "extreme build 2" version of the software eliminated the need for the hex editing... however, when I was originally upgrading my drive and got to the point that I needed to access the drive in Xplorer360, I didn't know about the "extreme build 2" version... so I made the changes to the drive and the program using the hex editor.

Then, when it came time to write the tutorial, I wanted to make sure I documented every step I took exactly as I took them so that the process could be repeated by others.  I didn't want to assume that the hex editing was no longer necessary, which is why I included it in my tutorial.  I did, however, made sure to note that it might not be necessary.

Oh ok, I was just wondering.  I'm quite new to modding anything on my 360.

Anymore games that will not work once you do the 120gb upgrade?