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[stewii griffin]

So let me get this straight. Because from what I am reading I am unsure of what this tool will do. Can I buy a WD BEVS 120g drive and  take the hddss.bin from my ms 20g and make the WD BEVS work as a 120g drive? Also if that is true can I format a usb thumb drive or cd to take the place of the floppy disc since I do not have a floppy drive?
Thanks

[ruciz]

no. you can make an hddss.bin file from your 120GB drive and write it to another 120GB drive and use that though. If you write your SS.bin from a 20GB drive you will end up with a 120GB drive with 13GB free space after formatting..

[stewii griffin]

thanks for clearing that up.

[bigmac_375]

ok now that i got this working with a 120 gig, i cant play original xbox games. Everytime i try to launch one, it gives me "This disk is unreadable, Please clean..." My disks are readable, cause they worked when i was using my retail 20 gig. What do i need to do to play original xbox games again?

[TheSpecialist]

QUOTE(bigmac_375 @ May 12 2007, 03:10 PM)

What do i need to do to play original xbox games again?

Install the xbox 1 emulator.

[bigmac_375]

so how do i get this. I tried doing the back compat update that is on my OXM disks and that dont work. How do i get it/how do i install it?

[TheSpecialist]

I did some reverse engineering and hacking and here's a version of the xplorer360 tool I fixed to work with 120 gb:
http://rapidshare.com/files/30966676/Xplorer360.rar.html
This particular version won't work with the 20 gb though.

I've also added an option to dump the hddss.bin with, it's under the 'edit menu'. You can currently only dump hddss.bin, not save it back yet, might add that next week if there's still no official release from the creators. In that  case, I might also release a version that works for all hdd's (20gb + 120gb) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Image facilities work, but don't write a 20 gb version to a 120 gb hdd.

For wd BEVS drives, you'll still have to add the partition to 0x80000 manual, might fix that too (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I hope Angerwound/Roofus will release a fixed version within the next few days though, since it's way more work to create/add things without having the source code (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

This post has been edited by TheSpecialist: May 12 2007, 10:12 PM

[zikronix]

QUOTE(bigmac_375 @ May 12 2007, 02:10 PM)

ok now that i got this working with a 120 gig, i cant play original xbox games. Everytime i try to launch one, it gives me "This disk is unreadable, Please clean..." My disks are readable, cause they worked when i was using my retail 20 gig. What do i need to do to play original xbox games again?

yep and figure this out it works with the retail 120Gig Harddrive as well.

[TheSpecialist]

QUOTE(zikronix @ May 12 2007, 11:33 PM)

yep and figure this out it works with the retail 120Gig Harddrive as well.

The retail drives contain the emulator section. It's not on a 'clean', WD BEVS drive. It can be added of course, will also look into that next week (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[zikronix]

yea its partition table 2..that contains the emulator section.

so if one knows the partion 2 hex info...one might be able to add it like we did with part 3.

in the raw dump of the 120GB retail unit that I have it shows part 2, and 3

in my bevs drive i get 0 and 3

[MasterMaw]

I have a WD1200Bevs RST, and retail 120GB hard disk microsoft...
The hack is ok.
My WD is recognized by x360 but xplore360 don't recognize partitions....
Help me.
Sorry for my english but I'm italian.

[Antman1]

QUOTE(MasterMaw @ May 14 2007, 09:44 PM)

I have a WD1200Bevs RST, and retail 120GB hard disk microsoft...
The hack is ok.
My WD is recognized by x360 but xplore360 don't recognize partitions....
Help me.
Sorry for my english but I'm italian.

http://forums.xbox-s...o...1318&st=15#  This is a work around.  you can also image the retail 120 over to the WD drive.

[zikronix]

QUOTE(zikronix @ May 12 2007, 10:50 PM)

yea its partition table 2..that contains the emulator section.

so if one knows the partion 2 hex info...one might be able to add it like we did with part 3.

in the raw dump of the 120GB retail unit that I have it shows part 2, and 3

in my bevs drive i get 0 and 3

well that was a pain but I got it. Here what I had. First I had a bevs and a retail kit. I made an image of the retail kit with xplorer 360 beta6 (non fixed for the bevs).

I extracted the sector and was able to dump it to the bevs

Then I formatted it in the box cool. tired to open the bevs in xplorer360 and no dice.

I did the fix for explorer 360 and the bevs harddrive using winhex cool I could see part 3

But then I had no backwards compatibility. about this time specialists released his fixed xplorer 360...which never did work right for me because I couldn't expand part3 on the bevs. and I still had no part 2 on the bevs

So what I wound up doing was imaging the bevs drive with the retail image I had. Which created part 0,2,3

tried using specialists xplorer 360 after that still couldnt expand part3 on the bevs.

Using an un hacked copy of beta6 i grabbed my content off of my 20 gig part3
but when I tried to grab my xbox 1 save games. it kept failing. so I opened up my 20 gig in beta 4
grabbed my saves

then I opened my 120bevs  in xplorer360 the one I hexedited to work.
and drug my content over.

Put the drive on the 360 did an account recovery and all my shit works.

sweet jebus.

[TheSpecialist]

Hehe, some creativity here I see ! Good to see you guys got it working.

I did some analysis myself and got it working too (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Here's how I did it:

1 Open your drive with Winhex (like described before)
2 Goto the menu/edit/define block. Choose beginning: 120EB1000 and end: 130EAFFFF and press 'ok'
3 Goto the menu/edit Fill block. Choose 'Fill with hex values', enter 00 and press 'ok'.  This will clear the partition.
4. Now we have to add the partition headers. Goto offset 120EB0000 and edit to make it look like:

120EB0000   58 54 41 46 FF FF FF FF  - 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 01  
120EB0010   00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF  - FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF    

5. Save it. Now we're almost done, only have to fix up the 'cluster map'. To do this, goto offset 120EB1000 and edit it to make it look like:

120EB1000   FF FF FF F8 FF FF FF FF  - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
120EB1010   FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00  - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  

Save it and then your drive will show partition 2 in xplorer360 ! Dump all files from partition 2 from some HDD that has the emulator on it (either a 20 gb or 120 gb, doesn't matter), save those files from partition 2 to your PC. Attach your WD BEVS drive, and drag the 'index' file alone first to partition 2! After you've added this particular first file, you can add the rest to the partition. After you've copied all files (you should be able to use all xplorer versions by the way, doesn't matter which one, hexedited/modded or not), your emulator should work.

I will update the hddhacker to fix up all this for you, so yoú don't have to edit yourself, but I don't have time for it this week, so if you're in a hurry, you'll have to follow the above steps (or the steps from Antman or zikronix)

TS

This post has been edited by TheSpecialist: May 15 2007, 01:50 AM

[TheSpecialist]

*EDIT*

This post has been edited by TheSpecialist: May 15 2007, 02:23 AM