DIY Xbox 360 hard drive upgrades

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Some people reported success with Xplorer360 xtreme 2. I only used the xtreme 2 version. hddss.bin file from a retail 360 120GB hdd - This file contains copyrighted code, so I don't think I can post a link. Use your Google finger to find it. 1) make a bootable usb stick and put on the 250 hddss.bin file, and hddhackr 1.22. (rename the.bin file to hddss). 2) shut down PC and unhoook all dvd/HDs and put in the new 250 sata drive. 3) boot PC off of USB stick 4) at command prompt type in hddhackr.exe. Use this 500GB security sector with HDDHackr 1.40 to hack a 2.5” 500gb SATA hard drive to work in the Xbox 360. A big thanks to Digiex member TalonII for dumping the 500gb security sector from his 500GB drive. How to use: Use the following tutorial: How to hack a 250gb, 320gb or 500gb sata drive to work in the Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 Slim.

Now I know there are hundreds of guides out there showing how to do this, and I will be linking to a couple of them in order to write this. The guides I have linked to are the two I found to be most useful. However, I recommend you read what I have written here as it lists a few problems I ran into that aren’t mentioned on the other guides.

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This task isn’t actually very difficult, it’s just long, so don’t trust the time scales quoted by a number of people, as it’ll probably take you at least 3 hours (or it did for me).

I’m going to start this by linking to two very good guides, which you want to have open and ready to use (and store the links somewhere), bearing in mind you will be rebooting your pc at many stages of this guide. It’s very handy if you have a second machine, but it doesn’t matter too much.

Guide 1: http://www.diy-guides.com/upgrade-your-xbox-360-to-250gb-inexpensively/
NOTE: this is slightly out-dated with it’s software list. hddhackr is at build 1.25 as I write this, and that’s the one I used. USE THE LATEST VERSION here.

Guide 2: http://digiex.net/guides-reviews/console-guides/xbox-360-guides/3152-xbox-360-how-hack-250gb-sata-drive-work-xbox-360-xbox-360-slim.html
NOTE: similar to guide 1, but has some good points. (I discovered guide 2 halfway through my transfers, but the point about xplorer360 versions is VITAL!)

Now, some issues you might face:

First and foremost, don’t panic when doing all this, most of the time it’s a simple fix and even though you might of done something stupid you can usually solve it too.

Problem 1: Installing the 250gb (or whatever drive you bought) into your computer and using HDDHACKR.
I assume that by doing this you sort of know how hardware works in computers, how to install hard drives, etc. I only have two laptops with me at the moment, but I was lucky that my dell allows easy hard drive changing. HDDHACKR is a confusing program, but what you really have to do is unplug ALL drives in your system if you can, then attach your drive that you want to flash. You will have to go into your BIOS, and set the SATA mode (or equivalent section) to ATA (or legacy, or compatible, or something like that). I also had to disable my DVD drive in the bios as I can’t unplug it. Pay close attention to what you modify in the bios, as you will need to change it all back to what it was for your normal usage of your system.

Onto HDDHACKR; using your USB stick you will load MS-DOS, and run ‘hddhackr’ from the prompt. It will usually find your drive, double check all the information on that screen, and if you unplugged/disabled everything else, the only drive should be the drive you are going to flash. if no drive is shown double check the BIOS again, sometimes settings aren’t saved (that’s what happened in my case). Otherwise you might need to try using a different system, as some chipsets are known to be a pain with HDDHACKR.
Some people are also not accustomed to DOS, or filenames it seems. The hddss.bin file could be named anything, in my case (using guide 1) it is shown in DOS as ‘HDDSS2~1.bin, which is what you type when it asks you for HDDSS.bin. Easiest way to know what you need to type is at the MS-DOS prompt before loading hddhackr, type ‘dir’ (without quotes) and write down the name of the bin file – it really is simple.

The guides are fairly good about the problem, but just in case I’ve gone over it above.

Problem 2: Copying data to and from the hard drives (both original xbox 360 hard drive and your flashed drive).
This is a very difficult and confusing stage, so be very careful, especially if you haven’t done any backups of your xbox 360 data onto memory stick. (I didn’t bother, too much hassle in my opinion.) One very important thing to do is follow the guides in the order they are written, as if you don’t you will end up having to go back some steps, and waste hours of work – I am speaking from experience here.

If you are using Vista or Windows 7, turn off UAC. Running as admin just does not work in this case. Now you can attach the drive to your system however you like, I’m using a USB adapter, but you can have the drive attached internally without any issues.

You’ll want to backup your original hard drive first, the guides split this into two stages, partition 2, and partition 3. Now I assume you have a 20/60/120 gb hard drive as an original, so you’ll be using the standard version of Xplorer360 (0.9 beta 6).

Create a folder on your system drive to store all the backup data. The guides are fairly good with this, so I won’t go into detail, but I recommend you backup partition 2, and also copy the contents of the partition 2 manually (just in case you have issues). As for partition 3, copy that over to your backup location. This process takes longer than you expect, possibly well over an hour.

Copying data back onto your flashed drive is a bit of a headache. And will take even longer than the dumping of data. I recommend using guide 2 for this bit as guide 1 is vague in this area.

Guide 2 says to use the standard xplorer 360 to restore partition 2, which is fine, however when I did this I lost my partition 3, but just format the drive in the xbox 360 and it will come back. (see key point below).
Then with partition 2 restored, and partition 3 missing and returned after a format, you can transfer partition 3 back. Here is where the time is lost. You will need to use the right version of xplorer360 here (standard for up to 120gb drives, and the 250gb hacked version for 250gb drives, do not be fooled otherwise.) You will probably want to copy everything back from your partition 3 backup you created earlier. Do this in smaller chunks, otherwise you will be sitting there confused for a long period of time wondering what it is doing, especially when it looks like it’s stuck on a loop. Since I copied this data over 3 or 4 times because of various mess ups on my part, for my final copy over I broke it into chunks. Now I had 3 folders (cache, content, minidex) and name.txt. Start with name.txt and copy that over, then minidex (you can do the whole folder), then cache (whole folder). Now content is a pain. If you copy the whole folder (several gigs of data) you have a harder time tracking it. So I created a new folder called Content on the xplorer360 partition 3. Then into there I copied the folders one by one, starting with my profiles, and lastly the big DLC folder (0000000000, or whatever).

KEY POINT 1: be very careful with drag and drop, xplorer360, and if you mess up be very wary of any dialogue boxes that appear, ensuring you read them fully. You’d be pretty mad if you erased your original drive because you clicked “yes” instead of “no”.

KEY POINT 2: messing up the partitions on your original drive is very ve

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