I bought a brand new official xbox hdd 120gb. I was trying to transfer my data from my old hard disk using explorer extreme and it kept crashing so I thought there might be an easy way to do it via the xbox as I have an official data migration kit. So I connected my old hdd to the xbox and connected my new one via the data migration cable and went to SYSTEM-->Memory and pressed Y and went to transfer data and it gave me a message saying my hdd would be formatted and all data would be lost so I clicked OK. I thought that surely my xbox would recognise that a new hdd was connected via the data migration cable and transfer data as the xbox would realise that a FATX drive was connected and the only things formatted like this are xbox HDDs and that the xbox would know that I wasn't trying to connect a USB Pen drive.
However the retards at Microsoft have made it so the xbox then reformatted my new microsoft hdd connected via the official data transfer cable to FAT32 as it thought it was a USB drive so that the xbox no longer recognises it and in xplorer partition 0 is gone as the xbox reformatted this so it is no longer FATX.
When I plugged it back into side of the xbox it was no longer recognised by the xbox. Now the problem is I don't think HddHackr will work as it is only for Western Digital hard drives and from what I can gather official xbox hdds are hitachi. I can still see partitions 2 and 3 in xplorer but partition 0 is gone as the xbox reformatted it to the wrong format (annoyingly the xbox has not trouble formatting it from FATX to FAT32 but there is no way to go back the other way via either windows or the xbox).
Anyone ever tried HddHackr on an official MS drive. Would it work or does the fact that it is not Western Digital mean it won't work as some places suggest?
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