Want To Make Own 320gbhdd, Have A Few Questions..... Options

[vicicarus]

Thank you for any and all help provided,

A few questions so that I may know where to start before I start,

I would like to make my own 320gbHDD for my 360(offline). Any one know of a good web site that I can get the HDD from?

Is it possible with a 320gbHDD?

Is the 320gbHDD supported by Xploer360?

And last, does anyone suggest a good tutorial?

[Aldanga]

Newegg.com is a great site. They used to ship drives in less-than-adequate packaging, but now they're packing them quite well. Make sure you get a Western Digital. I believe any of the BEV drives will work, but you would do well to check the hddhackr documentation.

320GB is indeed possible. I'd recommend against Xplorer as it's quite dated. Use something newer, like Xtaf GUI or Buffalo Party.

The hddhackr readme is generally sufficient enough. It's really straight-forward. If you have any problems, GIYF.

[vicicarus]

Thank you so much for the reply,

Thank you very much for the info. I have looked around and got everything I will need for the process. Only thing I didn't find was the HDD itself,newegg only has BVPT version, they don't carry the BEV versions anymore so will keep looking around. I have read the "read me" txt file with hdhackr app but I still want to ask, if this process is for an "offline" system, couldn't I use a larger size HDD somehow?

[Aldanga]

I found one reference to a BPVT working, but I have not found any others. You could take a chance with that. I wouldn't feel poorly as I believe most, if not all, Bxxx series drives work with hddhackr. If you don't feel comfortable with that, Amazon usually has a good assortment of drives. You might check with them. If you don't have a Prime account, Amazon offers lots of free trials (or 1-year free, depending on your circumstances) which gives free 2-day shipping.

Unfortunately, we cannot use larger hard drives. What hddhackr does is actually pretty simple: it takes the hard disk drive security sector (hddss.bin) from an official drive and copies all unique information to custom firmware which it then flashes to the hard drive. This enables a regular 2.5" HDD to be recognized by the system as an official hard drive. It's not as easy as it sounds, but the process is pretty simple.

As this flashing requires an official, unmodified hddss.bin (due to the standard MS signing of packages), we can only use drives up to the limit Microsoft officially supports on the Xbox 360. We could modify the hddss.bin to allow us to use bigger drives, but that would break the signing and the Xbox would reject the hddss.bin on the drive.

[vicicarus]

Again thank you very much for all the help,


I scored one on amazon!!!!!!!! says 3-5 days, its shipping out of CA, I am also in CA so maybe by weekend I should have it. Yes I did read how the files worked with same size drives but still wanted to throw that out there just in case some had cracked something......

[Aldanga]

I'd bet almost anything you have it within 2 days. I've got a shipping center close to me and I can get packages in a single day.

You can actually use larger drives (people have in the past), but only some of the space can be used due to the limitations of the hddss.bin implementation.

[vicicarus]

day or 2........... sweet!!!!!!!! again thank you very much for all the help you have provided me for this project.

[vicicarus]

Please bare with me, I have been thinking on how to post this..........


So my drive came in last night and I ran the hddhackr process. Had trouble with it but I seem to have gotten the pc to flash the drive even thou I get an error that says "LBA size seems to be an unsupported xbox360 value". (I had to switch towers to get it to run without having to power off the drive, LBA error remains thou)

Xbox let me format the drive and all but after I started using it I see I can't run xbox1 games on it. I have been doing a little research and I think I may know what happened. I think that hddhackr didn't make partitions on the drive. 0,2...3. Could I run the hdhackr process again and make those partitions? I saw it has the option to do so. Or does this process not allow xbox1 support? Or did my flashing not take affect on the new drive?

[bamarquez226]

Please bare with me, I have been thinking on how to post this..........
So my drive came in last night and I ran the hddhackr process. Had trouble with it but I seem to have gotten the pc to flash the drive even thou I get an error that says "LBA size seems to be an unsupported xbox360 value". (I had to switch towers to get it to run without having to power off the drive, LBA error remains thou)

Xbox let me format the drive and all but after I started using it I see I can't run xbox1 games on it. I have been doing a little research and I think I may know what happened. I think that hddhackr didn't make partitions on the drive. 0,2...3. Could I run the hdhackr process again and make those partitions? I saw it has the option to do so. Or does this process not allow xbox1 support? Or did my flashing not take affect on the new drive?

Hddhackr can create those paritions, but you need the file for Partition 2 in order to play Xbox 1 games. You'll need install that file for backward compatibility. Hddhackr does not do that for you.

Hope this helps. Good luck.

This post has been edited by bamarquez226: Jun 22 2012, 07:04 PM

[Aldanga]

Once you do get the partitions formatted (it will wipe your drive), you should be able to install the emulator. Note that if you install the emulator, you'll need to get the non-hacked version. The hacked emulator has been edited, breaking the signature, making it unusable on a stock box.

[vicicarus]

thank you all for the help,

What I ended up doing before I read these replies (thank you very,very much btw) I used a different ver of hddhackr and it created the partitions. I also restored partition 2 throw xplorer extream and installed the hacked ver emulator for xbox1 and I am up and running.

[halofreakish]

Thank you for any and all help provided,

A few questions so that I may know where to start before I start,

I would like to make my own 320gbHDD for my 360(offline). Any one know of a good web site that I can get the HDD from?

Is it possible with a 320gbHDD?

Is the 320gbHDD supported by Xploer360?

And last, does anyone suggest a good tutorial?

Happy to see that you have found out a solution to " "LBA size seems to be an unsupported xbox360 value".
Just thought of adding this as this might help someone

Just Ignore this error and select Yes to continue dumping the sectors and when you receive 'TURN OFF (Don't Restart and try this in XBOX 360) Turn Off as suggested and use the HDD in your XBOX Console, then select storage and now you will see an unformatted drive and XBOX will ask you IF you like to format it , select Yes and follow the instruction once the format is complete you would see the drive with 293 GB of usable space"