haha i know shame on me.. first i just got the xbox hard modded, and i didnt even actually get a hdd until about 1 month ago, and that was when i finally found a place to buy that adapter from in this country.. i went to silicon valley here in taipei, and no one sold that brand. i bought many different adapters, and nothing worked. so then thats when i finally mailed off for it from a online auction site here locally.. which in of itself was not an easy task since i cant read chinese... so when the next ones get here i will try one out, and if still nothing i will go with getting a new hdd (same brand and model) see if that works, and either way i will take the new one back if it doesnt or if it does will put the old (new one) in its place.. but its hard to see how both of these hdd fail to work.. guess stranger things have happened