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[bbcarlton]

Hey folks, I've been a member for a while (pre-360 and softmodding my original xbox).  I borrowed a friend's 360 with the 120GB HDD to try to fix it and the box isn't seeing the hard drive at all.  This is a box that had the red ring fixed via new thermal paste etc...  Anyway, the HDD is not being recognized by the 360 at all (other than the fact that it reboots if the HDD is removed or installed while the console is running).  However, the drive is recognized by my PC via xplorer extreme 2.  This HDD was never opened until I got my hands on it earlier today.  I've seen several tutorials here and elsewhere and could find nothing relating to this problem.  I used the search engine for this site many times and couldn't find the proper fix (for an unmodified 120GB HDD) for this situation.  Please post a solution or appropriate link to one as I can't seem to find the fix.  Thanks.

[majinsoftware]

Can you dump the hddss.bin off it.

What I would do is dump the hddss.bin off it, Then zero the hdd out. WinHex can do this if you have brought it. Dont think trial does.

Then reinsert the hddss.bin info manually with hex editor.
And remake the partitions with hex editor.

To do this open the hddss.bin file and copy everything.
Then open the hdd and go to location 2000 and paste in the hddss.bin info.

Then go to posision 80000 and enter this

CODE

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

then to posistion 120EB0000 and enter this

CODE

58 54 41 46 FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 01

then to 120EB0010 and

CODE

00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF

then to 120EB1000 and

CODE

FF FF FF F8 FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

then to 120EB1010 and

CODE

FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Save that and reattach the hdd and see if it shows up and lets you format it. If not then make partition 3 aswell.

go to 130EB0000 and

CODE

58 54 41 46 FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 01

And it should work.
If it doesnt after all that then I dont know could be the hdd has died or the xbox is have trouble with the hdd port connection.