[gusfacer]

well... I just tried it and it when I ran hddhackr and tested it, it said that the firmware didnt match with secter 16. Does anybody know whats wrong and how I can fix it?

[aaroneady]

If I remember correctly, I think that is when you have to get a hex editor and change the MPRT at the end of the file to match your I/O port on your computer (that's hooked up to the HD).

Read this: http://www.gamerwok.com/archives/786

[johnsag49]

You need to edit the drive to change the sector. It's gotta match the retail 120gb drive - but bare in mind you'll only have 120gb available to use (even if its a larger drive)



Here's a great tutorial to get it done:



http://forums.xbox-s...howtopic=660096

[M45732]

gusfacer, I had the same problem. I ignored the error and continued. The 360 saw the drive and formatted it. I did end up afterwards, when putting the information from the 20gb to the 120gb having to winhex some stuff. The following is the winhex steps. You'll have to have a full version of winhex to save data though... the following information was taken from this site:
http://beta.ivancove.../index.php/Xbox360HardDriveUpgrade#Xplorer360imageandbackupmethod.28recommended.29]


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,
registration required to allow write changes disk ) 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.

Now we have to add the partition headers. Goto (alt+g) 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

[techredcat]

This is a great starting point for anyone interested in upgrading their 360 hard drive. I did this project a couple of weeks ago and documented it. Check it out if you're going to the upgrade as well.

tech.redcat.us/mediawiki/index.php/Upgradexbox360harddrive

[coastie65]

Checked out the link. WHEW!! It is soooo much easier with a PS3, but then again, I guess that is typical for Micro$oft. coastie65

[techredcat]

MS learned their lesson from the easy hack-bait that was the original Xbox.

[i22yb]

I know it's a couple months late for a response, but others might want to know... The simplest way would be to use an Xbox 360 memory unit to transfer the files from one drive to the other. Unlike thumb drives, you can copy profiles and save games to Memory Units. The new $199 core system that just came out includes a 256mb Memory Unit.

Another option would be using a disk imaging program to clone the drive and then resize the partition. I'm not sure if partition resizing is possible right now given the partition format the 360 uses, maybe someone else can chime in on that and let us know. http://www.sysresccd.org/ would be a good tool to look at for starters on this.

[lsta]

Google around for Xplorer360 and Xplorer360 extreme2 (if the first gives you errors).

I'm busy trying to transfer everything over myself right now, so I can't guarantee this from personal experience, but it seems that save games, at least, are stored under Partition 3 > Content > (Profile, non-0000's).

There's even a website to figure out which game is which: 360.kingla.com/

And for those who feel less confident tinkering around inside the hard drive enclosure, you can get an adapter, though it might not work as well with larger drives.

And don't even get me started on how that hddhacker tool would never read my USB-to-SATA devices and forced me to open up a working PC to attach the hard drive directly. Grrr. At least Xplorer360 doesn't seem to mind my USB enclosures, once you have the 120GB hard drive formatted and just need to copy stuff over.

On the plus side, maybe I'll fix that Prince of Persia bug where Elika stops moving because I saved during a cut scene and so killed my savegame. Perhaps I can somehow overwrite the most recent autosave with a past one by editing the hard drive files directly? (One can hope, anyway.)

Another musing - with the recent ability to copy game discs to hard drives, I wonder if people can recover the game image from the hard drive itself? No way, right? It's gotta be encrypted. Still, I'm sure someone's tried, somewhere.

[brkooduh66]

Dude, I swear I'm following these directions to a "T". And it just now happening for me. I'm going to have the IT guy at work help me out next week. But i want to get this done now.

So far I got everything onto a thumb drive (extracted and formating thing to the thumb drive), also i downloaded this, but what do you mean "mount a DOS image"). also saved a copy of a hddss.bin. got the cables hooked up to the new WD1200BEVS. I'm getting stumbed in the BIOS. I don't see how to boot from a USB drive, only hardrive, hard disc, CD-ROM, floppy, generic storage. I tryed all and i get blank screen for everything eccept the harddrive that has windows on it.

Once everything is good with the thumb drive, is the final step happening buy starting windows then going into the DOS command window to enter the commands? I tryed that assuming my thumb drive was ready. but the "run hddhackr -f" (no i didn't use the quotes) says run is not a valid command. to comfirm i looked on a DOS command list and it turns out "run" (no quotes) is not on the list. what to do? IT dude says i'm hooked up right. maybe something with the thumb drive isn't right. any help? ask me some questions if you need to. Thanks a bunch.

[brkooduh66]

What's the answer to this question? "which "download and mount a DOS image file" do we actually download?"

[aaroneady]

Read #30 on the 3rd page, he asks the same question and I answer below.

[caserr]

ok man, since you seem to know what youre talking about, i hope you can answer this. bear in mind, however, that i dont really know much about this stuff, and even though i remain fairly certain i would be able to follow the instructions in the article, its just not what im trying to do. what i need to do is sort of the opposite from what is recommended here. what i did, was waste extra money on the elite version of the xbox.

having already owned a ps3 at the time of purchase, i was used to being able to free copy movies/music onto the hard drive, i thought i could load the thing up with mp3's that i could actually listen to while playing a game, but the xbox doesnt let you copy any content like that onto the hard drive itself, and the only way to get music on the hard drive is to rip a cd the old fashioned way. yes, i realize that sure, i could just plug any flash drive/external hard drive into the thing and play mp3's off of that, but i'd really like to make use of the hard drive on the xbox.

so what im thinking, is if i were to open up the xbox 360 enclosure, and connect it to my pc (in this case, most likely with an external enclosure) would it be possible to access the files like that? my thinking is that after ive ripped one cd using the xbox, i could just locate that file path (to the ripped music) and put more music in that folder, put it all back together and have it work? what do you think?

[aaroneady]

I'm confused as to why you're wanting opening the xbox? All you'll find in there are a motherboard, fan, terrible heat sinks, and your DVD drive. If you want to put music on your HD then that's a different story. Honestly, I've never done it. I'm pretty sure anything you put on the HD will need to be formatted for the xbox to understand, which in turn will make it unreadable to you (like pulling a file from an iPod and it being a piece of crap). I remember some buddies uploading music onto their first gen xbox with no problem. So have you tried "googling" it or "youtubing" it? Also, the xbox can have media streamed to it from you computer. I personally have used it to watch videos from my laptop to the xbox onto my big screen :) I'm sure you can do that with music too.

[Deadhacker]

Actually, the outrageous prices on commodity hardware upgrades are what kept me from buying a 360. I had two original Xboxes, sold them and all the games on eBay when the 360 hit the market, and never looked back.

[aaroneady]

Why? Whhhhhhhhhhyyyyy? No one cares about how you left XBox. I'm sure there's a forum for you somewhere on the net, this is not it. This is for people who want help with an XBOX related upgrade, so please everyone who wants to throw in the "PS3 is better" and "I can't stand XBox" crap ... do it where all of the other mouth breathers do it ... NOT HERE!

[lsta]

For the guy who was having troube when typing "run hddhackr ..." The command is "hddhackr" alone, run describes the act of typing in the command and hitting Enter afterward. If you type "dir" without quotes, you should see the hddhackr program listed. If not, you may have done something wrong and/or need to use the cd command to change directories. (Unlikely)

For the person asking about music, you might be able to copy it to the media folder on the hard drive, but this involves opening the hard drive as directed, carefully removing the SATA connectors, opening up your computer to plug in the SATA drive and then using Xplorer from Windows which I mentioned a few posts up in this conversation (and it's not Windows Explorer) to see the hard drive and copy files to it or from it. I would suggest googling for Xbox Xplorer Hard Drive Adding Music and see what comes up. If your unlucky, it will be pcworld, but I doubt it.

Finally, consider non-hacking options, like just setting up Windows Media Player, your computer, Media Center or some other device to stream music to the Xbox. I can't remember exactly, but I think you can even plug in non-iPhone/Touch iPods and it will read the songs from that also. Again, Google is your friend. Personally, I haven't even tried playing music, so my help is a bit limited here, sorry.

Good luck! :-)

[techredcat]

I tried doing music on the 360 using a linux based uPNP server (I can't remember which). It pretty much sucked. The 360 was slow at parsing out the song info, scrolling and sorting. On the flip side, hooking up an iPod or Zune works great and seems to be the way to go.

For those still trying to upgrade your hard drive, check out http://tech.redcat.u...diawiki/Upgradexbox360harddrive The sites been up and down as of recent but I've moved it to a different host.

[caserr]

yes, im fully aware of the options i have in terms of streaming music from my pc, or plugging in ipods (i cant take advantage of that feature, because i own an ipod touch, which, since it cannot be used as a disc [and thus doesnt show up as a drive] the xbox wont pick it up) or usb flash drives. i merely wanted to be able to get mp3 files actually onto the xbox hard drive itself. i realize this would be a very complicated process for what could be an otherwise easily acheivable end result, i just wanted to get it done to stick it to microsoft, and get some use out of the drive that i paid an extra hundred bucks for, despite not being able to use it for anything.

[trithumb]

Can this work with any 120gb 2.5' drive?