Larger Hard Drive Project Thread, Lets gather our heads!! Options

[barthautala]

has any body replaced the stock drive in the case with an 2.5 inch laptop drive, then used the elite transfer cable on it? the one you get for free from microsoft to transfer all your data from you old hard drive to the newer larger one? just a thought.

That wont work. Youre still not tricking the xbox into thinking its an original drive.

Im sure this information is hosted in the box itself in flash mem. I think maybe the xbox sends a message to the drive asking for the key everyone keeps talking about. So I think the only way to get a larger drive is to hack some file on the box AND decipher the difference betweens keys on the 20gb vs the 120gb and make an educated guess as to what the key would be for say a 220gb hdd and get those files onto the new hard drive. Follow?

Im positive that a new genuine 300gb hdd from MS wouldnt work on a 360 without an update from MS.

I dont quite have access to any of those files or Id hex compare them myself.

[Boobers]

Sounds to me like there is no reason why that wouldn't work! The problem people may have is resizing the default partition.

ie. You backup a 20Gb drive, restore to a 300Gb drive, but the image is 20Gb, therefore 360 will format it to 20Gb... Someone needs to work out the partition format, and if it's encrypted, that's going to be hard / impossible.

The problem I am running into with ACRONIS is that it won't clone a drive that it reads as EMPTY.

And, when I put on a fully functional XBOX 360 Drive on my Winblows XP workstation, it's reported as EMPTY in everything but Xplorer360


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[hiPotion]

How available are these 120GB BEVS drives? All are Scorpios this model or is there a difference?
I'm trying to order one through work but none of the suppliers state anything about BEVS.

EDIT: "WD1200BEVS", is this the correct model?

This post has been edited by hiPotion: May 31 2008, 04:12 AM

[X-hacker]

How available are these 120GB BEVS drives? All are Scorpios this model or is there a difference?
I'm trying to order one through work but none of the suppliers state anything about BEVS.

EDIT: "WD1200BEVS", is this the correct model?

yeh, this is the right one

[d-2-d]

So from what I read you can't just pop in a new hard drive unless its from microsoft? This tottaly sucks becuase sata drives are soo cheap now and so large!!!! Correct me if i'm wrong please....

[xbox_mallia]

So from what I read you can't just pop in a new hard drive unless its from microsoft? This tottaly sucks becuase sata drives are soo cheap now and so large!!!! Correct me if i'm wrong please....

unfortunately you are correct, however, you can use the specialists HDD tool and get a cheaper WD BEVS drive (WD1200BEVS for example), this would give you a 120GB drive much cheaper than from M$, however you'd still need a hdd enclosure or internalise it.



Just out of interest, has anyone tried conncting a sata drive (M$ or other) to the DVD drive sata cable ??
I cant afford a 360 hard drive at the moment, so cant try myself, might hook up a spare 80gb hdd to it just to see if it does anything at all, warrantys not that important

First post in around about 6 months, good to be back

[mooseman923]

I am looking to upgrade the size of my hdd. what is the maximum size possible that the 360 will recognize? alos, what do i need to format do i need to have the drive in?

[grimdoomer]

I haven't read all the posts hear, but I'll tell you this. On the 360 HDD there is the deviceId, serial number, and firmware version of that HDD. Then some generic data, then a 2048 bit RSA signature of all that. Im not sure yet, but I think only MS has the private key. I dont think the 360 would issue a new DeviceId when formatting, but I could be wrong. If someone could make a backup of their HDD then format and back up again, I could eassily tell you if we can sign HDD's or not. But I would assume we can't as MS would make sure there are'nt any 2 of the same deviceId's out there. I've been looking through the kernel and I haven't even found so much as a verification proccess on hard drives. This leads me to belive we cant sign HDD's and the verification proccess are stored in the hypervisior.

[raven_5x]

I haven't read all the posts hear, but I'll tell you this. On the 360 HDD there is the deviceId, serial number, and firmware version of that HDD. Then some generic data, then a 2048 bit RSA signature of all that. Im not sure yet, but I think only MS has the private key. I dont think the 360 would issue a new DeviceId when formatting, but I could be wrong. If someone could make a backup of their HDD then format and back up again, I could eassily tell you if we can sign HDD's or not. But I would assume we can't as MS would make sure there are'nt any 2 of the same deviceId's out there. I've been looking through the kernel and I haven't even found so much as a verification proccess on hard drives. This leads me to belive we cant sign HDD's and the verification proccess are stored in the hypervisior.

So does that mean that we can risk an XBL ban on our console/user after doing this upgrade???