Xplorer360 Beta 6 - Adds Support for 120GB HDD and 512MB MC Posted by XanTium | May 4 23:57 EST | News Category: Xbox_Xbox360

A new version of Xplorer360(info), a tool to read/write on your Xbox/Xbox360 HDD and Xbox360 Memcard on PC, has been released. What's new/fixed: * support the new 120GB Hard Drives * support the new 512MB Memory Cards Official Site: http://www.360gamesaves.com Download: here

Code has been altered to support the new larger units and drive but we lack one to actually test on. Please report success/problems on our forums or here. Thanks!

awesome.. ive always been a big fan of xplorer360.. very easy to use

It works great on the 512 MU but the 120gig HDD still wont read Partition 3 (all the good stuff).

Nice work Angerwound. Did you also add support for WD BEVS drives ? The old version didnt, because after formatting it on the x360, it contained one partition less than the original MS drive and therefor your tool rejected it. After adding the partition info manually, it worked though. But it would be nice if it worked without having to edit partition info manually. If you want me to test something, I'd be happy to help out.

Sorry to bother you but do you think you could tell me how to add the parition info manually? I searched the scene and was unable to find anything like that. Id really appeciate it.

Nice work, when I eventually get a 360 Elite here in November this will be a useful tool.

Roofus is the mastermind of Xplorer and would be better able to answer you questions. Will direct him here.

also i use your program alot for gamesaves, but i noticed a bug when injecting a folder under E0000 it will be sent to the main content folder and then you can drag it to the folder and delete it, it's a weird bug, but i will live with it!

if you dont know what i'm talking about i will get a screenshot of what happens when i inject a game folder with a save in it.

Ok, I just tried the new update to Xplorer with my 120gb hdd and got a fatX error. Heres All the info maybe Anger, Roofus or someone can help me out:

The Hdd is a "specialist" of the 120gb hdd that I purchased and works fine when connected to the 360. This is the first time the 120gb hdd has been connected to the computer. When I first connected it to the compter by using XSATA, windows proceeded like I installed a new hdd. In device manager under Disc drives I now see
"Fujitsu MHW2120BH USB Device". However when I try ro access the drive via Xplorer I get a fatx error.

So my questions are:

1) What can I do?

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2) Has anyone been successful with their "Specialist" hdd?




** My Operating System is Windows XP SP2 **

good work

Well, to get a 20 gb WD BEVS recognized in xplorer360, you can edit sector 1024 (=0x400) = byte 0x80000. 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 ) 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 and then xplorer360 will work, at least with the 20 gb version

Not sure if this will do the job for the 120 gb version, haven't tried this myself yet.


Thanks, would be great if your nice tool would standard have WD BEVS support too.

Regards,

TS

Good Release!

But i still can not view the contents of Partition 3 on the 120GB HD on my Elite system. Any ideas?

angerwound said roofus would be directed to this thread, maybe then answers will come...

thanks for the release!

what is so strange is that when I hooked my WD hddhackr drive up to the PC after reformating it I could see it with Xplorer360 beta 5 but now I get a fatx Error with the new Beta 6. It will be awesome if we had support for the WD BEVS drives as well. Thank you all for your hard work.

Thanks TS! I went ahead and followed your directions with the 120gb WD BEVS and xplorer sees the drive now! So thats a step in the right direction. THe only thing is, I think I now have the same problem that everyone does with their retail drives, only partitions 0 and 3 show up and neither have a plus sign next to them. Hopefully Angerwound will point Roofus over to this thread

I did a little analysis of your xplorer360 tool, hope you don't mind

The problem with BEVS drives is twofold. First of all, your tool wants to see a FATX partition at 0x80000. This partition does not exist on WD BEVS drives, not even after it's formatted on the 360. It's probably created at the MS Headoffice Anyway, after adding the partition manually (like i posted), xplorer360 then will continue as normal.

However, the 2nd problem is that xplorer360 somehow thinks that the root directory cluster is at byte 0x131229000. While this holds indeed true for my 20 gb drive, it's not correct for my 120 gb drive. At byte 0x131229000 there's only a directory entry for the 'Cache' directory (and that's why xplorer360 only lists that 'cache' directory when i click on partition 3).

The 'true' root directory cluster for my 120 gb drive is at 0x132973000 (while the partition itself is unchanged of course, at 0x130EB0000)

I haven't done enough research yet to find out how your tool determines the root directory cluster (I scanned quickly for a hardcoded value, couldn't find it at first glance), but obviously that's where it goes wrong. I hope you guys have some time to release a fix, if not, let me know if it is ok if i would release a small patcher for your wonderful tool, to make it compatible with the WD BEVS series

kind regards,

TS

I did a little analysis of the xplorer360 tool and found a way to make it compatible with my 120 gb BEVS. Here's how to do it in 2 steps:


1) 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 ) 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.



2) To get the data shown, exit xplorer360 and fire up your hexeditor again, but this time open the xplorer360.exe itself with it. Make sure you're using the beta v6 version. At offset 0xF0C2 you'll find:

68 77 03

You need to change these 3 bytes into:
00 C2 1A

Save it (make a backup !), restart it and you can now see the contents of the WD BEVS 120 gb, at least I can

BTW, this 'hack' won't work with the 20 gb version, so it's best to make a backup of the xplorer360.exe and use the 'unhacked' original version if you want to access a 20 gb hdd !

BTW2: There's no guarantee this will work, it worked for me, but it might not work for you. This xplorer360 hack might result in loss of data on your HDD, so make sure you're testing it on a clean WD BEVS and not one which contains a lot of important data

Please give me feedback on results

LOL, i just transferred the contents (music + save games) from my WD-BEVS-RST to the WD-BEVS-LAT drive and my x360 liked it ! Everything worked, music and save games

Best (and safest) way to do it, is (after you modded the xplorer360 like posted above) : right click on partition 3, extract it to some folder on your PC HDD, then load the modded/hacked xplorer360 and drag the contents that you saved to disk, to partition 3 again.

You might also use the 'image' function in xplorer360 but I don't know if that works ok with the modifications ... Only 1 way to find out

@ Angerwound:

The reading of the wrong directory cluster is indeed caused by the way you calculate it. You're calculating it like:

Root directory cluster = cluster chain start+ cluster chain length.

Cluster chain length = 4 byte entries * (partition size in bytes /$4000 bytes per cluster).

This of course is correct, but the problem is that you've hardcoded the partition size in your tool. If you correct that partition length for the 120 gb version (like i did in the small patch I suggested above), it all works I think you've just overlooked that partition size when you released beta v6.

BTW: tell Roofus that the tool was very well and 'clean' coded ! (allthough he probably knows that himself, hehe ) He sure knows what he's doing. Respect !

Great Fix. worked 100% and I was able to copy all data from 20GB drive over to my 120GB without M$ cable.

Good to hear it worked for you too, that kinda confirms that everything is ok

However, i would like to stress once more that people using this mod do NOT use the 'image' facilities of xplorer360. If you want to do that, do it on your own risk I haven't looked at it in detail, but there's a chance that this might mess up your data. If you want to use the image function, I suggest you just wait for a new official release from Angerwound/Roofus.

So in short: just extract the contents of partition 3 (which contains all your data like gamesaves, video and music) and copy it to another hdd. That works perfectly and is probably all you want anyway. Enjoy

I did some reverse engineering and hacking and here's a version I fixed to work with 120 gb:
http://rapidshare.com/files/30966676/Xplorer360.rar.html
This particular version won't work with the 20 gb though.

I've also added an option to dump the hddss.bin with, it's under the 'edit menu'. You can currently only dump hddss.bin, not save it back yet, might add that next week if there's still no official release from the creators In that case, I might also release a version that works for all hdd's (20gb + 120gb)

Image facilities work, but don't write a 20 gb version to a 120 gb hdd

I hope Angerwound/Roofus will release a fixed version within the next few days though, since it's way more work to create/add things without having the source code

ok so how com backward compatibility doesnt work. with a 120 gig bevs drive yet it does on the retail drive.

BTW, I'm talking about a 'release' next week, but this is in no way a 'release' and I also dont' want it to be added to the main page of this site, it's just a temporarily version. This tool is from Angerwound and Roofus, and a release would seriously do not right to their work, I know they've put a lot of work into it and mine was just a few hours.

Just wanted to help out with a quick fix until they release their next version of this kickass tool

well make sure you give some support for the emulation section. If you dont add some kind of support for this in xplorer, then please tell us how to manually hex it into the hdd!

I played Halo2 and some other games with my WD Drive. sounds like you may want to reformat then and redownload the compatibility update and redo everything cause something is wrong on yer side. drive is seen and works on the 360 as any other drive.

well that wouldnt work because partition 2, where the emulator is, doesn't exsist on my drive. i would need to manually hex it in.

has anyone any guides to the fodlers structure so I know where to store/remove videos. My personal encodes not content off marketplace.

thanks

gurry

OK I believe I have a work around for the BEVs drive and partition 2, but it is not simple. I have been scratching my head wondering "What is everyone talking about?" Cause my partition2 is there and emulation works on my 120GB BEVs drive. Well I figured out why it does for me and not others! Here is what you would have to do. Warning though you will lose your data on the drive!

OK First off run the undo.bin your drive. Now use a hddss.bin from a 20GB drive with hddhacker v.91 and get it to be seen in explorer360 with the hex edit on the drive (Not xplorer360). You will have to use a unedited version of explorer360 cause the drive will be like a 20GB drive not the 120GB cause of the 20GB hddss.bin. Now restore your 120GB drive with a 20GB Drive image. Then test it in the 360 it should show up as the 20GB drive with all the 20GB data. Now your prolly saying this is pointless. Well nope it created partition 2 for you. now run the undo.bin once more and then use the hddss.bin from your 120GB drive! Then put it back in your 360 and it will show the wrong size with corrupted data and you will have to reformat. after you reformat the drive it will look normal. Now load the drive back up on your PC with explorer360 and you will have partition 2 now and the ability to do xbox1 emulation. Then just transfer your saves as previously stated by TheSpecialist from your 20GB drive to your PC and then from your PC to the 120GB drive. I am sure that if anyone can find an easier way than my method it will be TheSpecialist. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

thanks for the reply, i will try this... looks promising.

Can I use this to access my Xbox 1 HDD on my laptop via IDE to USB cable? Thanks!

Can i copy an downloaded Demo on my PC to my HDD ??

I found a Halo3 beta torrent 900mb on demonoid , but de files aren't .iso

JOKEr

wow, all downloads are console locked and that is piracy! piracy=not allowed on XS forums.

also, you cannot just add partition 2 and expect it to update when you put a game in. You need all the files from partition 2.
unfort for me i dont have those files.

Ok, here it is: http://rapidshare.com/files/32035087/Xplor...treme2.rar.html
This is the xplorer360 v6 pimped up by me to the 'extreme build 2' version, LOL.

First a disclaimer: this version might contain bugs and thus screw up your data if you save changes to it. Therefore, it is ALWAYS advisable to make a backup of the files on partition 3 first !! Also it is advisable to have a backup of the whole 20 gb original HDD.

What's changed from the original V6 version:
* Now works correctly with both 20 gb AND 120 gb drives
* Now also works on WD BEVS drives which don't have all the needed partitions
* Added option to dump hddss.bin
* Added option to dump partition 2 to image
* Added option to restore image to partition 2

Of course, this version was mainly done to give you guys an easy way to transplant the emulator, which resides on partition 2. Here's how to do it:

1. Attach your original HDD (20 gb or 120 gb) which contains the emulator
2. Run this new version, open HDD and choose "backup partition 2". This should create a 262 MB file.
3. Shut down the computer (so don't 'hot' swap the HDD !), replace the HDD with the WD BEVS and reboot
4. Open the HDD with this new version. To be safe, first double click on partition 3 and extract all files to a directory on your PC, in case something goes wrong with this new version.
5. After you've made a backup of those files, now choose "restore partition 2" and select the 262 MB file you've created in step 2.
6. Restart the xplorer360 tool to see the new contents on partition 2 !

That's it !

Oh yeah, last thing: in order for your new WD BEVS to get detected in this xplorer360 version, it needs to have the partition 3 on it. This partition will exist if you've formatted the HDD in the 360 before. If you have never had the WD BEVS in your x360, then first format the drive in your x360. After that, this explorer360 will show 'partition 1' (this means it's missing partition 2) and then you can restore partition 2, restart and then you'll see partition 2 and 3.

Enjoy !

P.s This is an 'unofficial' release. The original xplorer360 is done by Angerwound and Roofus, so big credits to them. I made the changes listed above, without their participation and without having the source code.

Hello. I tried to backup my old core hard disk and then restore the image to my new pro hard disk, but I got a bug at the end of the process: Completion bar remianed full for about 40 minutes without ever giving a message that backup was restored succesfully... Is that normal? I haven't yet had chance to test restored image on my pro console though.

ok i read a different guide before reading this one and what i did is use this modified version 6 and i did a backup of E000000XXX from 20gig and then i hooked up the 120gig and just dragged all the game saves into the exact same folder.........on the 120gig hard drive i recoverd the gamer tag first and then dragged and dropped the saved games......when it was doing this it asked to overwrite a file already there and i chose yes and now when i hook up the 120gig to the 360 it says no memory found.....is there a way to recover this?

I've just dl'd this version of xplorer and I really hope it works better than the others. When I format my drive it says "107Gb available" which would be correct as the formatting steals 13Gb. But when I copy my partition 2 and 3 folders over, I only have 12Gb free and I get a message saying "the remaining space is reserved for system use". I also cannot see any of my old content either.

did the mod thespecialist made work? i have an elite and would like to backup some stuff off my hdd. can someone repost the rapidshare file the specialist loaded?

Can someone please repost the xtreme TS version 2 so that I can use this with my new 120gb bevs drive i am going to use in my core and i want to be able to copy all the data on to it.

thx

Second the request for a repost - RapidShare's decided it's a forbidden file and complaints have been received....

Anyone got an alternate link or able to host the file?

I used Antman1's process and it worked fine:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?s=&...t&p=3991790

Was easier than trying to find that file and now I am done with messing around with this and my 120gb BEVS works a charm even with halo2.

i found a copy of xplorer360 extreme build 2 here:

http://www.x360-elite.co.uk/index.php?show...=0&#entry25

scratch that, it appears just to be beta 6, not the extreme 2, here's an extreme 2 one, tested before posting this time.

http://360hax.com/download.php?view.87

a quick follow up.

today i successfully installed a WD BEVS LAT drive in my xbox360.

I bought the drive from here:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo...roductID=576184

120 Gb Western Digital WD1200BEVS Scorpio, 2.5", SATA150, 5400 rpm, 8MB Cache, 12 ms - £43.76

I backed up my old 20GB hdd (extracted all the files on partition 3 to a folder) and saved partition 2 to an image file using xplorer360 extreme build 2.

I grabbed HDDHacker 0.91. Edited it so that it worked with my NForce3 SATA ports, grabbed a 120gb bin SS and installed that on the HDD.

I then fired up my xbox360 with the new hdd connected up and formatted the drive.

then i reconnected it to my pc and restored the extracted files to partition 3 and restored the image of partition 2.

popped the hdd back in the 360 and everything appears to work ok apart from a couple of saved games. Notably viva pinata - you can see the game saves in the dash, but viva pinata complains that they're corrupt.

It looks like games that you can't copy to a memory card can't be copied to a new/larger/different hdd. Other game saves, games, demos, videos and music copied ok and xbox1 compatibility was retained.

If anyone has a fix for getting these saved games working again that'd be great! My guess is there's some additional checking done when the game save is loaded to see if it's being loaded from the device it was originally saved to.

@The Specialist, care to comment?

Thanks to everyone involved in HDDHackr and Xplorer360, I was able to buy a 512MB memory card and a 120GB drive AND still have £50 left over from the money that I would have had to use buying an original MS 120GB HDD!!! Awesome work.

Question? does it work for all types of hdd. mine is a fujitsu 120gb.
will it?

I recently purchased a 120GB HDD kit when they went on sale at Amazon. I'm hoping I can use xplorer360 to transfer from my 20GB to the 120. I have the included transfer cable and have successfully used it to connect the 120GB to my PC and read it using the extreme 2 build. The thing that bothers me is that it sounds like all my arcade downloads and other DLC will require that I be connected to authorize and play them after using the transfer cable as Microsoft intended. Is it possible to use xplorer360 or some other tools to do the 20gb to 120gb transfer and still retain the "offline" capacity for my XBLA games?

Sorry I'm probably being incredibly dense but I just wanted to ask a couple of questions:

1) Can this definitely be used with the official 120GB M$ drive that comes with the elite system?
2) As I'm not too keen on cracking open my xbox or the drive just yet does anyone know if this program works with the X360 USB device?

I read a tutorial somwehere on transfering old original xbox game saves over to the 360 so it'd be really useful!

i new into this but
if i use this program and release my hardrive from the console and put it in my computer can i add the image of the games on the hardrive then

or what is the point?

I was able to use the "extreme 2" build of xplorer360 with the USB transfer device that came with my stand-alone 120GB drive.