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[kleptodathief]

anyone figure a way to upgrade to a 320gb or bigger HD? or its not possible yet?

[DarkManX4lf]

QUOTE(kleptodathief @ Feb 15 2009, 06:04 AM)

anyone figure a way to upgrade to a 320gb or bigger HD? or its not possible yet?

No, its not possible yet, until MS releases a larger hard drive.  So if they release a 200gb hard drive you can upgrade to a 200gb hard drive using this method.  Same goes for larger drives.

[ap3x]

Great tutorial!  By way of thanks I thought I’d add an account of my experiences upgrading my HDD in the hope that maybe it’ll help someone else.

Software:
Hddhackr 0.91
Hddss.bin (seemingly from a FUJITSU MHW2120BH)
Hex Workshop (6.01)
Xplorer360 Extreme 2 build
Windows Vista Ultimate

I didn’t use any of the other software listed at the start of the tutorial.

Hardware:
WD1200BEVS drive (model WD1200BEVS-00UST0)
PC using ASUS A8N-E (nForce4 Ultra chipset)
Xbox Arcade (Falcon chipset)

The boot disk I used I just created by formatting a floppy through Windows and checking the “Create an MS-DOS startup disk” option.

Steps 1-4: Since I was using a PC with an nForce4 Ultra chipset (evidently not supported by hddhackr auto-detection), when I came to flash the WD drive it was not auto-detected.  I followed the instructions on how to edit hddhackr.com (using Hex Workshop) from the hddhackr readme.txt (the values for my PC were 09 70 09 e0) and retried.  It failed again but I realised that I’d edited hddhackr.com to use ports 3 or 4 but the drive was attached to port 1.  I  attached the drive to port 3 and retried and this time it worked.

Steps 5-7: I set it formatting on the Xbox 360.

Steps 8-12: I connected the old 20GB drive to my PC.  Using Xplorer360 Extreme 2  I copied the contents of partition 3 to my PC (I didn’t clear the cache beforehand) and backed up partition 2 to a .bin file (a 256MB file in my case).  Copying the contents of partition 3 was a bit of a pain because of repeated errors and having to kill the app but I ploughed on and got it all copied.  I then skipped all the hex editing stuff gambling that the Extreme 2 version of Xplorer360 would work without it – it did.  

Step 19: I connected the now formatted 120GB drive to my PC and opened it with Xplorer360 Extreme 2.

Step 20: Unfortunately, I couldn’t expand Partition 3 because there wasn’t one – all I had was partition 1.  So I decided to skip to step 21 and come back to the copying.  

Step 21: I restored partition 2 after which partition 1 had disappeared and partitions 2 and 3 had appeared.  

Step 20 revisited: Now equipped with a partition 3 I went back to step 20 and copied the data backed-up in step 10 to it.

I then fitted the 120GB HDD into the Xbox 360 HDD enclosure and attached to the Xbox to do some tests.  I don’t have a great deal of downloaded content but the few game videos I have work OK.  I then tried the following games:

Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero III
Guitar Hero World Tour
Rock Band
Gears of War
Fable II
Mirror’s Edge

Of these, all worked OK apart from Rock Band and Fable II as expected and I can confirm that the method of moving their savegames to a MU and back worked OK.

All done now and working fine,
Thanks again to hobartrus, TheSpecialist et al.

[Mach1024]

QUOTE(k2xtrEm @ Feb 7 2009, 01:06 PM)

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

I did that.  The hard drive was recognized and worked fine.  However, backwards compatibility was unavailable due to a missing partition (I think the BC stuff was stored on partition 1).  Even the download BC update from MS wouldn't solve this problem.  So I just copied all the partitions over with 360 Explorer and it seems to be working great.

[whatami1223]

hey guys thanks for this tutorial. i'm really planning on doing this.

anyway, i've been searching for a week now to find a cheap Scorpio WD1200BEVS HDD but i can't find any. so i was messing around with my laptop recently and, by some twist of fate, it says here my Laptop's HDD is a Scorpio WD1200BEVS-75UST0. now that's ironic, and lucky at the same time.

i wanna ask if will this model work with the xbox 360? i'm not really sure if its an IDE or a SATA drive. is there any way to know?

thanks for your replies

This post has been edited by whatami1223: Feb 24 2009, 07:07 PM

[big jeffrey]

is it normal for a backup of all the files in partition 3 to take over 10 hoursS? i've been up since before 4 AM and it still says "dumping folder" i kept getting errors so i chose "extract" and extracted to a folder on my desktop. and it has ben moving right along ever since... no errors but not fast at all either.

[big jeffrey]

this is crazy, it seems like some people have no problems at all or alot, so im just gonna get this 100 gb up and running and forget about my save games, i might get htem some other time with a data migration cable

[Texy]

Thanks to the OP for this tut.

I have a problem copying my backed up files to partition 3 with Xplorer360 Extreme 2. I was able to drag from the original drive
to my backup folder, but I can't drag back onto the new drive. I have also tried Edit, Insert Folder, and this goes through the motions, but the files do not copy. I am running XP Home Premium.
Any idea's?

Texy

[big jeffrey]

QUOTE(Texy @ Feb 27 2009, 12:23 AM)

Thanks to the OP for this tut.

I have a problem copying my backed up files to partition 3 with Xplorer360 Extreme 2. I was able to drag from the original drive
to my backup folder, but I can't drag back onto the new drive. I have also tried Edit, Insert Folder, and this goes through the motions, but the files do not copy. I am running XP Home Premium.
Any idea's?

Texy

The exact same thing happened to me!

[Texy]

I told a lie - I am running Vista Home Premium, not XP. Which OS are you running?
I,m waiting for an extra sata cable to arrive today so that I can try it again in another machine running XP.
Explorer can clear write to the disk because I was able to restore partition 2 (when there was none), and I can create a new folder on partition 3 also, I just cant copy my backup files to it for some reason.

Texy

[wutang01]

Hey guys. I'm trying to update my Xbox 360 hard drive from 20GB to 120GB.
Bought a 1200BEVS this morning.

Now I have a 98 bootable image on my Toshiba 4GB USB stick ...
Loaded it up, typed hddhackr -f

And I get this error:
"An internal stack overflow has caused this session to be halted.
Change the STACKS setting in your CONFIG.SYS file, and then try again"

So what I did was, I went back to the folder containing the 98 bootable files.
Edited the config.sys in notepad, and changed three values as outlined here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/145799

STACKS=64,512
FILES=60
BUFFERS=40

But I'm still getting the error message. Does someone understand what I'm talking about? Does someone know what I can do to get past this?

Because I believe that once I've passed this, I'm on my way to getting the 120GB setup and away I go ...

I look forward in hearing your replies. Thanks in advance!

[ramgeek]

QUOTE(wutang01 @ Feb 28 2009, 01:06 PM)

Hey guys. I'm trying to update my Xbox 360 hard drive from 20GB to 120GB.
Bought a 1200BEVS this morning.

Now I have a 98 bootable image on my Toshiba 4GB USB stick ...
Loaded it up, typed hddhackr -f

And I get this error:
"An internal stack overflow has caused this session to be halted.
Change the STACKS setting in your CONFIG.SYS file, and then try again"

Have you tried deleting your autoexec.bat and config.sys files or renaming them to
autoexec.bak and config.bak. This way it does not load them

[ETheGlorious]

Quick question. Why wouldn't it be possible to simply clone the HD using DOS based software such a GHOST, or some other HD imaging software? Has anyone tried? The Process would obviously be easier, I would assume Xbox file structure would be the only conflicting issue. As it not being FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS. I would be willing to give it a shot though. Also, what limits HD storage, 2.5'' are up to at least 500GB. Has anyone tried formatting a larger HD and only been able to allocate 120GB? Either way I appreciate all the information, time, and effort you guys give, Thanks.

[ravihpa]

Hi guys,

First of all, thanx a lot for this awesome guide.  Am sure it's gonna help me when I do this as soon as I get my Arcade

Anyways, I had a question.  Since am gonna be getting an arcade, I'll obviously not get an HDD with it, but I have a friend who has a working 20 GB HDD, and I was thinking, do I HAVE to get a 20 GB Xbox 360 HDD ? or is there a way where I can just directly buy the WD HDD.  I know there won't be any way for me to connect that WD HDD to the 360 without the casing, but what would you guys say are my options ?

Or is it that I would HAVE to shell out money for a 20 gb 360 HDD ?

PS:  That friend of mine is a modder himself (but a PS2 modder) and recently got his 360.  He would be more than happy to allow me to mess around with his 360 20 gb HDD as he himself is interested in upgrading his own to a 120 gb

Thanx a lot in advance for all the advice/suggestion

[hdlockx]

Appreciate the guide and had a few questions. I just finished this upgrade but found I can't see partition 0 even after doing the hex editing, tho I can see partitions 2 and 3 with no problems. I did follow some steps from another guide located here: http://beta.ivancove...d_Drive_Upgrade . What I am curious about is 0x80000 the same as 000080000 offset when trying to hexedit your partition 0 in? If not I think I can hex edit the drive again to remove those inputs but I might need a little more help with finding the right spot on my bevs 22ust0 hd. The other question, after the format on the 360 partition 3 on the new hd had a name.txt file that just says "hard drive" in it that wasn't on the old hard drive so I removed it. After restoring files from the old hard drive into the proper places in partitions 2 and 3 I was able to boot that drive on my 360 directly into my profile how I had it set up on the old drive(but without my nxe avatar, my handle was shown but the avatar was blank). It seemed to include all the info I had on my old drive so I think I'm almost there just short partition 0 and finding out what the name.txt file does. Appreciate the help and I'm sorry if these questions have been asked before. btw I didnt used any of the recommended hex editing software since it seemed to require purchase, so I went with HxD hex editor, which was free. Slightly different UI but after some muddling around worked just fine for creating partitions 2 and 3 listed in the linked guide no problem.
Thanks again.