. This tutorial will teach you how to hack a standard Western Digital 2.5' Sata hard drive so it can be used by the Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 Slim. Normally you can only use Microsoft approved hard drives which are significantly more expensive, costing up to 3x the price of a normal 2.5' SATA hard drive. This tutorial focuses on hacking a 250gb drive, which was the largest drive possible in 2009 when i created this tutorial, however it is now possible to hack drives of the following sizes: 500gb, 320gb, 250gb, 120gb, 60gb and 20gb. Simply follow this tutorial and download the security sector that matches the size of the hard drive you wish to hack.
Jul 26, 2014 Hddhackr 160gb help. Discussion in 'Xbox 360 Support Archive' started by ragex, Jul 23, 2014 with 22 replies and 2,960 views. Thread Status. Now I know I need to flash the 160gb hddss.bin, but when I go into ms dos, with the 160gb hdd connected, its just a blank screen with a flashing cursor like this(_). But if I remove the hdd, I am able.
500GB security sector added on. 320GB security sector added on The Backstory: After having a 20gb drive for the last 4 years and getting annoyed about having to constantly delete stuff I did something about it. I purchased a nice 250gb laptop hard drive for £30 and used hddhackr on it to enable the 360 to use it. I think doing your own drive is the way to go as Microsoft charge £89.99 just for the 120gig drive here in the UK, at that price I could make 3x 250gig drives for the same price! This guide will show you how I did that, its worth mentioning that you can also hack a 20gb, 60gb and 120gb, 250gb, 320gb and 500gb drives, however when creating this tutorial 250gb was the largest drive possible to hack. I personally think hacking a 500gb drive is now best value for money. Note to Xbox 360 Slim owners: If you have an Xbox 360 slim you can also hack a hard drive using this guide and connect it directly to the console, have a look at the end of the guide for information on how to connect your hacked drive to an Xbox 360 slim.
Lets hack an Xbox 360 hard drive: Ok lets get started, first you will need to buy a hard drive to use in the Xbox 360. Hddhackr 1.40 will only work with the following Western Digital drive series: BEAS/BEVS/BEVT/BPVT/LPVT/BEKT/BJKT/BPKT/BUDT/HLFS/BLFS Tested drives. Help when i get to f i hit enter and get a message that asks me to enter file name for sector 16-22 e.g hddss.bin, this file is on my stick so type this in and get another message that tell me that that hddss.bin is not present. On your screen shot you seem to have data from the hddss.bin this information i do not see. I am puzzled. Hope you can help.
My sata card is a via 6421 that i use for DVD flashing. Data on screen on boot is displayed and drive is found on 0XE800 as pri master. I have disconected all other drives for this operation. Hope you can help. I just did this it worked out pretty well. Some notes from when i did it.
I had an 8 gig thumb drive. I had to use fat32 to format and it wasn't an issue worked just fine. The xplorer 360 app gave me alot of issues and didn't seem to work to well for me.
I assume this might be from me using it under windows 7 64 bit pro. Just in case, I had a buddy at work with a spare 360 and transfer cable and was nice enough to lend it to me. So when i was done preping the 250 gig drive. I put the old 20 gig back and backed up on the spare drive my friend had. I poped the 250 gig drive in. It showed half of the drive was used.
I assumed this was from trying to restore partition 2 and my content from my 20 through xplorer 360. I formatted the 250 gig drive in the xbox 360 utilities in the console. It asked me for my serial number for my xbox. I inputted the serial number in and bing all my space back.
Tried an old xbox 1st gen game and it didn't work. I then swaped the drives to the spare 20 gig (which had my data backed up on it) and used the transfer cable. When it was done. Everything worked i had my old data and xbox 1st gen games worked no problem.
The transfer cables are free if you order them from microsoft and a spare 20 gig drive in a case is 20-30 american on ebay usually. If the second half of the tutorial gives you crap this may be another option to try.
Thank you very much for the great tutorial u rock! When i get to f i hit enter and get a message that asks me to enter file name for sector 16-22 e.g hddss.bin, this file is on my stick so type this in and get another message that tell me that that hddss.bin is not present. On your screen shot you seem to have data from the hddss.bin this information i do not see. I am puzzled. Hope you can help. My sata card is a via 6421 that i use for DVD flashing.
Data on screen on boot is displayed and drive is found on 0XE800 as pri master. I have disconected all other drives for this operation. Hope you can help. Click to expand.The Xplorer 360 app is very buggy, it works under Windows 7 x64, you have to run the program as an Administrator if you have UAC enabled.
Your not the only person to have trouble with it. Xplorer 360 Xtreme works well with 20 and 120gig drives, it will also restore partition 2 to a 250gb drive, touching partition 3 on a 250gig drive just corrupts it so be careful not to.
Xplorer 360 250gb edition will only work on Partition 3 of a 250gig drive, touching anything else also corrupts the drive. Good idea with the transfer kit, glad you got your hacked drive working 100%.
. Computer with windows OS, Windows XP/Vista/7/8. (Ideally XP).
You should be able to plug in the hard drive using computer's SATA connection. (I used the laptop, which had the SATA connection and I had to swap the internal hard drive with Xbox 360 upgrade hard drive. USB drive to boot computer in DOS mode. (minimum 512MB). Western Digital Hard drive you are planning to upgrade with (see the hard drive compatibility list). It is now possible to hack drives of the following sizes: 500gb, 320gb, 250gb, 120gb, 60gb and 20gb. Optional: SATA to USB cable or enclosure.
Summary of steps you need to perform:. Create a bootable USB drive and copy the HDDHACKR v1.4 to the USB drive and required HDD Bin file to flash (its better to name the file as HDDSS.BIN ). Remove all the hard drives from the computer and only plug the hard drive that will be used for upgrade in Xbox 360. (You are not required to remove all the existing drives but it make process more safe). Boot the computer using the USB drive and run the HDDHACKR.exe from command prompt.
From HDDHACKR menu Flash the Hard drive with the firmware HDDSS.BIN and Create the Partition 0/2/3. (During the process existing firmware's backup will be made, keep that file safe i.e.
UNDO.BIN). Restart the computer after removing the New Xbox 360 Hard drive and plugging in the original hard drive (if removed), and boot the computer in Windows OS. If you do not want Xbox 1 Emulator to be installed you can skip the rest of the steps and simply replace the hard drive in Xbox 360 HDD shell. and format it in Xbox 360's System Setting Storage Menu, and your new storage is ready for use. Optional Steps for Xbox 1 Emulator Migration: Using the SATA to USB connector plug-in the Old Xbox 360 Hard Drive to the computer and run the Xplorer360 program ( as Adminstrator ) and take the Backup of Partition 2. Once backup is done, remove the old Xbox 360 HDD and use the new Xbox 360 Hard drive using the SATA to USB connector. Using the Xplorer360 Program Restore the Partition 2 to the new Hard drive.
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Now simply replace the hard drive in Xbox 360 HDD shell. ( ) and format it in Xbox 360's System Setting Storage Menu, and your new storage is ready for use. Troubleshooting:. HDDHACKR error: 'No ATA Device Present'. Make sure the drive is connected to the first SATA Connector (On either Primary or Secondary SATA Controllers).
Make sure BIOS configurations AHCI has not been enabled or RAID should not been active. If your SATA chipset supports Legacy IDE in BIOS make sure it is enabled. Xplorer360 Extreme 2 error: 'Could not find a FATX drive to open.' This is weird error and required several things to try out;. Try changing the SATA to USB Enclosure power source to external one if it's using the USB power.
I tried to plug in SATA to USB enclosure on my Windows XP machine and it worked. (Whereas it was not working on my two windows 7 laptops with 320GB HDD installed in shell, while it was working with old 60GB HDD installed in same shell on same windows 7 laptops). Try plugging in your new HDD drive directly through the SATA cable in your PC.