Topic: Copy Files Off Of Locked Xbox Hard Drive Via Usb? (Read 99 times)

DWells55 · « **on:** September 12, 2006, 01:18:00 PM »

Hi, is there any way for me to read an Xbox hard drive in Windows with it hooked up via USB? I happen to have a locked Xbox hard drive (which I cna unlock via IDE in xboxhdm if needed) and no Xbox to put it in. However, I do want the files on the hard drive.

If I were to unlock the drive over xboxhdm, then unplug it, put my Windows drive back in, and install this drive into a USB adapter, is there any way I could read it from Windows and copy the files? If not, can it be read in Windows hooked up via IDE alongside my normal hard drive?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. And if anyone cares about the Mimesis project, the faster I get help with this problem, the faster you guys see two new Halo 2 maps.

Thanks.

classicsat · « **Reply #1 on:** September 12, 2006, 05:04:00 PM »

As long as it stays unlocked, you likely can.

1hotjob · « **Reply #2 on:** September 12, 2006, 06:06:00 PM »

It would be best to unlock it and connect it to the secondary IDE.

Use Xplorer360 to browse the drive. You can drag and drop files into Windows Explorer.

DWells55 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 12, 2006, 06:34:00 PM »

YEah I decided to go that way. Jus tunlocked it in xboxhdm, will do the rest tomorrow.

DWells55 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 14, 2006, 01:01:00 PM »

Got a suggestion otehr than Xplorer360? It keeps giving me an error about failing to create directory during recursive dump when I try to copy my gamees off it.

1hotjob · « **Reply #5 on:** September 14, 2006, 01:22:00 PM »

What I did was get the Xplorer360 window up and the Windows Explorer up so I could see both at the same time. Drag the file/folder you want from Xplorer360 to Windows Explorer. It may be easiest to drag them over and sort them out later.

DWells55 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 14, 2006, 01:44:00 PM »

Yeah that's what I've been doing. Very few games will copy without the error...

Any chance I can boot Knoppix, mount my FATX F Drive, and mount my NTFS partition and copy the files?

DWells55 · « **Reply #7 on:** September 14, 2006, 02:06:00 PM »

Alright, I mounted my second NTFS partition (the one without SP2 because XP SP2 breaks Linux NTFS support) and then made a new folder in mnt (mkdir /mnt/F) and then attempted to mount the Xbox drive (mount -t fatx /dev/hda55 /mnt/F). Unfortunately I got an error regarding FATX, so I'm gonna assume Knoppix does not support FATX. ANyone got a LiveCD that does?

Zebes · « **Reply #8 on:** September 14, 2006, 10:13:00 PM »

ygpm, and one question, why don't you just put the unlocked hard drive in an xbox to ftp the files?

classicsat · « **Reply #9 on:** September 15, 2006, 12:54:00 PM »

The Xbox HDM CD supports FatX. You can copy from the Xbox drive to a FAT32 or likely ext2 drive, or back, with the file commander on the Xbhdm CD.

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