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[CzarMike]

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Got the WD3200BEKT cause it was on Amazon for £41

I just picked up a cheap WD3200BEKT on ebay, I'm curious to know if anyone has it up and running? It's HDDHackr-friendly, but I haven't read of anyone using it yet.

[FoxRacR17]

QUOTE(CzarMike @ Oct 27 2009, 06:28 PM)

I just picked up a cheap WD3200BEKT on ebay, I'm curious to know if anyone has it up and running? It's HDDHackr-friendly, but I haven't read of anyone using it yet.

Got that exact drive from newegg today in the mail.  It was very easy to use hddhacker with this drive, just make sure you dont have AHCI enabled in bios.  Copied everything from my 120gb using the ms transfer cable and dvd, and now i'm ripping some games back to the drive.  

[CzarMike]

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Got that exact drive from newegg today in the mail. It was very easy to use hddhacker with this drive, just make sure you dont have AHCI enabled in bios.

Very good to hear of your success, and thanks for the tip. I have AHCI enabled, and that would have driven me crazy.

[Cryte]

QUOTE(FoxRacR17 @ Oct 28 2009, 02:46 AM)

Got that exact drive from newegg today in the mail.  It was very easy to use hddhacker with this drive, just make sure you dont have AHCI enabled in bios.  Copied everything from my 120gb using the ms transfer cable and dvd, and now i'm ripping some games back to the drive.  

I received the same drive from newegg today as well, but unfortunately it won't work for me.

It gave me a message saying it was successful but when I put it into my 360 it just says that no hard drive is connected. Ran the undo.bin to restore the drive and then ran the 250gb bin file but same thing my 360 doesn't detect the hdd at all.

I'm probably overlooking something so some input would be nice.

[FoxRacR17]

QUOTE(Cryte @ Oct 27 2009, 08:28 PM)

I received the same drive from newegg today as well, but unfortunately it won't work for me.

It gave me a message saying it was successful but when I put it into my 360 it just says that no hard drive is connected. Ran the undo.bin to restore the drive and then ran the 250gb bin file but same thing my 360 doesn't detect the hdd at all.

I'm probably overlooking something so some input would be nice.

Dont really have any advice, other then maybe try a different sata port or different computer all together.  I flashed mine on a gigabyte ma790x-ud4p that has the AMD 790x chipset controlling the sata ports.  I unplugged everything connected to sata, hooked up the western digital hard drive, went into bios and disabled AHCI on all ports, booted into dos, ran hddhacker and let it scan all my the ports, selected the port with the drive connected, typed "f" and put in the name of the hddss.bin file, then typed in undo.bin, then it went on its way.  Then it told me to wait 10 seconds, i waited a little long, then shut down my computer, unplugged the hdd and put it into the hdd case and plugged it into my 360 and it recognized it right away.

On a side note i'm glad I got a 7200rpm drive.  Ripping games to it takes a considerable less amount of time.

[Cryte]

QUOTE(FoxRacR17 @ Oct 28 2009, 05:06 AM)

Dont really have any advice, other then maybe try a different sata port or different computer all together.  I flashed mine on a gigabyte ma790x-ud4p that has the AMD 790x chipset controlling the sata ports.  I unplugged everything connected to sata, hooked up the western digital hard drive, went into bios and disabled AHCI on all ports, booted into dos, ran hddhacker and let it scan all my the ports, selected the port with the drive connected, typed "f" and put in the name of the hddss.bin file, then typed in undo.bin, then it went on its way.  Then it told me to wait 10 seconds, i waited a little long, then shut down my computer, unplugged the hdd and put it into the hdd case and plugged it into my 360 and it recognized it right away.

On a side note i'm glad I got a 7200rpm drive.  Ripping games to it takes a considerable less amount of time.

Forgot to come back to type up an update, but I got it working about 20 mins after that post had to use my computer with an MSI board my Gigabyte EP45 was just giving me a bit of trouble.

[Nexer]

QUOTE(Mike1250 @ Oct 27 2009, 08:53 PM)

yes it does. Xplorer360 wouldn't recognize the 250, so I plugged the 20GB into the top of my 360, plugged the 250GB into the back port of the 360 with a SATA to USB adapter I had laying around. I had deleted everything except my savegames off the 20GB. at first it didn't recognize it, it said to plug it in, so I unplugged the 250GB and plugged it back in. it took 44 minutes to copy. it said some data was corrupt and wasn't copied, but all my stuff is on the 250GB now. gotta love it.

Well mine didn't. Tried plugging it in on the back and front and tried unplugging a million times. It still stalled at the "plug-in screen". Tried installing 120GB image on the disk and the installation proceeded the first time. Did the 250GB image again and no luck.

Either my transfer kit only recognises up to 120GB drives or the software on the green disc is older than what you get now.

Had to transfer using the modified Xplorer360 250GB version

This post has been edited by Nexer: Oct 28 2009, 09:42 AM

[noodles2k]

QUOTE(Nexer @ Oct 28 2009, 08:40 AM)

Either my transfer kit only recognises up to 120GB drives or the software on the green disc is older than what you get now.

I'm guessing you've got the older v1 kit, they replaced it with v2 because it didn't work with 60gb drives

[Albany]

Hi guys I just bought the WD3200BEVT and was wondering if anyone could help me find a tut ive been looking for the last 2 hours and no luck(im stupid like that).

Also,  I saw that newegg has the 7200rpm and 5200rpm versions.  If I were to buy the 7200rpm could the xbox power the drive like the 5200rpm?

Thanks!

[Nexer]

QUOTE(noodles2k @ Oct 28 2009, 08:17 PM)

I'm guessing you've got the older v1 kit, they replaced it with v2 because it didn't work with 60gb drives

That sounds plausible. Any way to distinguish the two?

[Albany]

Anyone that bought the Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD3200BEVT 320GB 5400 RPM earlier today for 64.99 should go chat with support and get the price adjusted to 59.99!

[j3ll3]

QUOTE(FoxRacR17 @ Oct 28 2009, 05:06 AM)

On a side note i'm glad I got a 7200rpm drive.  Ripping games to it takes a considerable less amount of time.

must be your imagination.. the 360 only has a sata controller that'll do 150mbps

upgrading to a better HDD


btw 59,99USD? expensive one.. i'm getting mine (WD2500BEVT), for 40 EUR

[noodles2k]

QUOTE(j3ll3 @ Oct 29 2009, 06:30 PM)

must be your imagination.. the 360 only has a sata controller that'll do 150mbps

QUOTE(Jeneral @ Oct 26 2009, 03:31 PM)

What are you smoking? Aside from multi-drive RAID 0 setups and some SSD's, no standard HDD can sustain high enough transfers to saturate SATA 1. SATA 1 can hit ~150 MB/s sustained transfer!

it's not his imagination  

[FoxRacR17]

QUOTE(j3ll3 @ Oct 29 2009, 11:30 AM)

must be your imagination.. the 360 only has a sata controller that'll do 150mbps

Why does everyone think that because its it sata 1.5 that these drives can actually FILL all that bandwidth?  A single Sata 3.0 drive doesnt even fill 150mb/s which is what sata 1.5 is supposed to be.  I have 2 samsung F1 1tb hdds hooked up in raid0 to my raid card that has 512mb of ram, and when i transfer stuff to or from that array it gets up to about 180mb/s but only until all the ram on that card gets filled up, then it drops down to a steady 80-90mb/s.  I'll go run a quick benchmark since i still have my ms 120gb in another case so i can just swap them out, i'll install the same game to both hard drives and see how long it takes

[cesaro]

If someone would PM/email me their undo.bin for the WD3200BEKT (or whatever is worth trying) I would be grateful. [email protected] let me know if this isn't kosher.

I typed in undo.bin when it asked for a backup filename, but it never wrote anything to the flash drive. Said it was successfully backed up, so I never checked. This was on an ICH9 Gigabyte motherboard. Don't know how or why the flashing itself failed because everything showed up just fine beforehand. Now the drive shows up in the program, but has nothing next to all the fields/name etc.

When I used the program to do my 120gb it went so well  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) Oh well, user idiocy strikes again.

This post has been edited by cesaro: Oct 30 2009, 05:29 AM