Topic: TheSpecialist's HDDHackr v0.91 - Adds Support for WD BEVS-RST Drives (Read 6011 times)

brywalker · « **Reply #15 on:** May 08, 2007, 09:16:00 AM »

You know, after I posted I knew it would be taken the wrong way.

Let me rephrase.

If you are not using your original hddss.bin from your 120GB and get one through illegal ways, you are not only breaking the law but chances are you will be banned from Live for using a cloned drive (since there will most likely be duplicates) if a detection is already working.

Also, AFAIK you cannot use your 20GB hddss.bin on the 120GB and expect results.

This is a warning and not a request. I have no need for the 120GB.

This post has been edited by brywalker: May 8 2007, 04:17 PM

TheSpecialist · « **Reply #16 on:** May 08, 2007, 11:22:00 AM »

QUOTE(brywalker @ May 8 2007, 05:52 PM)

If you are not using your original hddss.bin from your 120GB and get one through illegal ways, you are not only breaking the law but chances are you will be banned from Live for using a cloned drive

The day they'd ban me from LIVE because I'm using a drive from a competitor instead of the overpriced MS drive, that would be the day I'd sell the console and never ever buy any MS products again...

Not sure if in my particular case they'd be unhappy with that, hehe, but you catch my drift. This is not 'content' you're copying, like a game or a movie, this is buying a drive from a competitor and making it interoperable. Like stated on Free60, MS may not use copyright to prohibit interoperability. In short, I'd seriously be amazed if they'd ban you from LIVE. But then again, I've been seriously amazed in the past before

dom0012 · « **Reply #17 on:** May 08, 2007, 11:41:00 AM »

yeh hddhackr is pretty useless seing you need the signature... the only use i could think of is to backup your hdd's signature if hdd1 breaks, or you could use multiple hdd's if your crazy about downloading live content.. so not completely useless.. thespecialist should spend his time working on benq and 79 drives

pumpkinlad · « **Reply #18 on:** May 08, 2007, 01:09:00 PM »

QUOTE(TheSpecialist @ May 8 2007, 06:58 PM)

The day they'd ban me from LIVE because I'm using a drive from a competitor instead of the overpriced MS drive, that would be the day I'd sell the console and never ever buy any MS products again...

Not sure if in my particular case they'd be unhappy with that, hehe, but you catch my drift. This is not 'content' you're copying, like a game or a movie, this is buying a drive from a competitor and making it interoperable. Like stated on Free60, MS may not use copyright to prohibit interoperability. In short, I'd seriously be amazed if they'd ban you from LIVE. But then again, I've been seriously amazed in the past before (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

While I understand your point, I think what brywalker was trying to say is they would ban you for using a non-original hddss.bin from a drive you do not own, not using a competitor drive that you have cloned with your own hddss.bin.

anttimonty · « **Reply #19 on:** May 08, 2007, 12:41:00 PM »

THNX to TheSpecialist for this release. I would like to see an ability to use standard 3.5" drives in the near future

brywalker · « **Reply #20 on:** May 08, 2007, 12:47:00 PM »

QUOTE(pumpkinlad @ May 8 2007, 08:09 PM)

While I understand your point, I think what brywalker was trying to say is they would ban you for using a non-original hddss.bin from a drive you do not own, not using a competitor drive that you have cloned with your own hddss.bin.

That was EXACTLY what I was getting at. Thank you.

Also, it doesn't suprise me at all that they don't monitor the fan speed of the uninstalled header to see if it has been installed and fitted with a fan. The console would be modified, after all.

Ok, only half joking on that one.

sinister slipknot · « **Reply #21 on:** May 08, 2007, 12:50:00 PM »

QUOTE(pumpkinlad @ May 8 2007, 08:09 PM)

While I understand your point, I think what brywalker was trying to say is they would ban you for using a non-original hddss.bin from a drive you do not own, not using a competitor drive that you have cloned with your own hddss.bin.

I see your point, but then again its not too much different to using different fans or things like the XFPS, its just giving you better results, but then again there is always the point of the copywrited material... but like TS said

QUOTE

Like stated on Free60, MS may not use copyright to prohibit interoperability.

zsoltti · « **Reply #22 on:** May 09, 2007, 09:31:00 AM »

Okay Guys a new dashboard is out please give me feedback , does the hddhackr cloned 120gb hdd work on it?

b1ackmai1er · « **Reply #23 on:** May 09, 2007, 09:24:00 PM »

Is this the drive I need?

http://www.westerndi...asp?DriveID=200

Thanks b1m1

TheSpecialist · « **Reply #24 on:** May 10, 2007, 04:23:00 AM »

QUOTE(b1ackmai1er @ May 10 2007, 06:00 AM)

Is this the drive I need?

http://www.westerndi...asp?DriveID=200

Thanks b1m1

Yes, that's the one

bigmac_375 · « **Reply #25 on:** May 10, 2007, 04:25:00 AM »

QUOTE(pumpkinlad @ May 8 2007, 03:09 PM)

While I understand your point, I think what brywalker was trying to say is they would ban you for using a non-original hddss.bin from a drive you do not own, not using a competitor drive that you have cloned with your own hddss.bin.

dude, i am pretty sure TheSpecialist can read...

bigmac_375 · « **Reply #26 on:** May 10, 2007, 01:03:00 PM »

sorry to double post... but i there a tut anywhere for this?

im not quite sure how to boot this up.

jo7a · « **Reply #27 on:** May 10, 2007, 04:46:00 PM »

Isn't there an adapter to the core versions users ?
So we could connect the HD to the console ?

Thanks in advance

TheSpecialist · « **Reply #28 on:** May 11, 2007, 05:56:00 AM »

If you want to use xplorer360 with the 120 WDBEVS drive, you can now do that:

1) First add the missing partition manually starting at byte 0x80000 of your WD BEVS. You need to make it look like:

58 54 41 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 01

So, the easy way to do this: open your drive with winhex( http://www.x-ways.net/winhex.zip ) by pressing F9, select your WD BEVS drive, press <ALT>+G, use position 80000 (hexadec) and then edit these 16 bytes starting at 0x80000 to look like above. Save it, restart the xplorer360 Beta 6 and the FATX error should be gone and you should see 2 partitions now. However, there'll be no data shown yet. if you are using a 120 gb version.

2) To get the data shown for an 120 gb wd BEVS, exit xplorer360 and fire up your hexeditor again, but this time open the xplorer360.exe itself with it. Make sure you're using the beta v6 version. At offset 0xF0C2 you'll find:

68 77 03

You need to change these 3 bytes into:
00 C2 1A

Save it (make a backup !), restart it and you can now see the contents of the WD BEVS 120 gb, at least I can (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

BTW, this 'hack' won't work with the 20 gb version, so it's best to make a backup of the xplorer360.exe and use the 'unhacked' original version if you want to access a 20 gb hdd !

BTW2: There's no guarantee this will work, it worked for me, but it might not work for you. This xplorer360 hack might result in loss of data on your HDD, so make sure you're testing it on a clean WD BEVS and not one which contains a lot of important data

This post has been edited by TheSpecialist: May 11 2007, 01:00 PM

geantvert · « **Reply #29 on:** May 11, 2007, 01:49:00 PM »

Yes! That works for me as well (at least with my LAT version)!

Thanks a lot (again!) TheSpecialist...

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