HOWEBREW ONLY
How to make ur bigger HDD work like the OEM and copy ur data. This is the windows version original guild (here) . Linux version can be found (here)

As many of u know Xbr/freeboot let us put bigger Hdd in the xbox 360 enclosed and reformat them to use Or we can wire up the bigger drive to the bottom of the board. What the reformatting dose not do and the reason for the guild until someone make a program to do so. Once the drive has been reformatted by the xbox 360 it doesn't make partition 1-3 like a normally OEM xbox 360 drive. It makes partition 1 and it acts like partition 3. Making it so there is no normally partition 2. There for not allowing us to play xbox 1 games. Also we can't use a type of explore to see the info on the drive other then to programs made for the xbox 360. I am talking about Le Fluffie and FATXplorer. There might be others but I don't know about them yet.

you will need both winhex and hex workshop. A way to connect your HDD to ur computer, I used xport.
Also you will need an OEM 20/60/120gb 360 HDD.

First part I am using a 20gb for an example. It would be best to use one as well. Unless your copying your data.
Open hex work shop and save sectors: start 0, to 9998663, name it firstpart.bin

Then save sectors: start 9998664, to the end of the drive, name it secondpart.bin


Getting the HDD ready. If you have a brand new drive that u just bought skip to the next part.
If u have used your drive for anything you should 0/null the HDD. Using a program to do so. I used Ultmate boot cd.

Now connect the HDD to you xbox 360 and format. Change the name to what ever.Now connect the HDD to you computer and open up winhex and find "name.txt". Look at which sector your name.txt starts in, write it down


Open hex workshop, open the drive and save sectors 9998663 to (sector before you name.txt mine is 10227591 I would put 10227590)save as padding.bin. (Use your own number!)

Open that in hex workshop and select all and fill with 00s.


Now open hex workshop and restore sectors, firstpart.bin, start sector 0

Then hex workshop restore sectors: padding.bin, start sector 9998663

This expands the cluster chain table to proper size for your GB HDD.
Then restore sectors: secondpart.bin, start sector (Where ur name.txt sector was)

After that ur HDD should let u play xbox 1 games And if u have files on the HDD Le Fluffie and FATXplorer will work too.

Note: I have test this out with a 500gb HDD and a 160gb. Both work just fine. Any question please ask here don't pm me please. Thank you for read


All credit goes Geremia, patstew, DougTheSlug, Eaton and Magnus Hydra.

Edit: wrong link opps.

Thanks very much for the guide, I do appreciate the effort.

However, I have a question.

Are the sectors for firstpart.bin (0 - 9998663) the same when coming from an original 120GB MS drive?

Also, can you take a quick look to correct some of the conflicting instructions? I was cutting and pasting from there, and my second look makes me thing there may be a typo - where you ask to restore padding.bin to the new drive, you say to start at 9998663, but I believe this would be 9998664 correct? Otherwise, you're overwriting one sector of the firstpart.bin restoration right?

Thanks,

coreyinoz

No there is data from the 20gb that will be needed.


U can do ether, it will all be 0's. On the xboxhack forums in the Linux version. I talked about how The guy from this little mini Tut didn't go into detail on how he got his padding.bin. So I just copied sector 9998663 to sector before your name.tx. It worked fine restoring it. I've don't this on both 500gb and a 160gb. Also on the Linux version link u will see that it works fine for other users.

@Magnus,

Thanks again for coming back.

Can you help me then if coming from a 120GB MS drive? I don't have a 20GB as a starting point.

So what sectors would I back up as my firstpart.bin coming from the 120GB?

Thanks,

coreyinoz

Hi there, first off thank you for the tutorial, precisely what i was looking for. Now comes the issues and questions

First off in Hex Workshop when i open any file for hex editing i can scroll through it, but when i open a disk it only shows me 1 sector at a time (while in winhex i can see the whole thing), is that normal and is there an option to show all data and let your scroll through them like a regular file would?

Then comes my questions about restoring

I borrowed a friends 20GB because my 120GB would take too long to dump. I dumped part1 and part2, now when i clicked on restore and loaded part1, i chose start sector 0 but the file only shows as 768MB instead of 4.77GB (but when originally dumped, it dumped 4.77GB). then comes the weird part, i click ok to restore, it seems to be doing it's thing (whatever that thing is). but somehow i think it's overwriting the part1.bin because when i click restore, the file drops to 0bytes in win explorer, then when hex is done doing it's thing I'm left with 768MB file, again is that normal?

Yet on your picture of restoring part1 it shows the proper file size of 4.77GB.

Now because it did that, i lost my original part1.bin and since i didn't have the 20GB anymore, i dumped the part1 from my 120GB, i dunno if that's gonna work, since I'm doing part1 from 120GB drive and part 2 from 20GB drive.

please clarify a little bit more the procedures and what they're supposed to do, I was under the impression that restoring the part1 and part2 were supposed to overwrite the sectors on the disc, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

when i did restore on my padding.bin same ting happened, it rebuilt the file on my windows hdd (proper size though) and inside of it (hex editing), instead of having 0's everywhere i have name.txt etc... so it's as if it extracted that same amount of sectors from my 500GB formatted on 360 and dumped them on my padding.bin (and overwriting it in the process).

Thank you for your time and I'd appreciate if you could clarify the situation for me, i'm sure it would help others as well.

Thank you.

In the original guild it tell u the info for the 120gb oem drive.

Is this technique compatible with 2TB drives, like is FATXplorer compatible?

Thanks

ok i'll try and explain myself more

I ripped 3 parts from the 20GB that i have

part1.bin (4.77 GB)
part2.bin (14.X GB)
padding.bin (0'd) (approx 112MB)

then I connected the 500GB onto my PC (after formatting it in my 360)

I opened Hex Workshop then I did the first restore for part1.bin (and that's where the issues/questions) started

went to restore sector (under disk menu) then I selected part1.bin starting at sector 0


now on your picture number 6(from the top) you see the file size being 4.77 and sectors 9958665, mine doesn't show that, it shows file size about 786MB and 1610056 sectors (or something close to that).

Then if i click OK to go ahead and restore sectors, it's my part1.bin on my PC that gets overwritten (with what seems to be sectors from the 500GB hdd), then when the process is done i end up with a part1.bin that's 786MB.

Maybe i'm misunderstanding this whole process, but isn't it supposed to write the part1.bin onto the 500GB HDD?

what's going on, what is the restore process supposed to do to the files what gets injected in what? I'm completely lost, can any1 help me out with this plz.

EDIT: I'm using Hex Workshop 5.0.0.2511, if it matters

Any hard drives will work with this tutorial or just the Western Digital BEVS ?

It should you will have to find the right sectore for your name.txt.


Try getting the newer version of Hex workshop if u can. It should be writing the firstpart.bin to ur 500gb HDD. Any restore goes to ur HDD not your pc HDD. It shouldn't over write ur firstpart.bin. ARe u restoring the firstpart.bin, secondpart.bin and the padding.bin to the HDD ur going ot be using for ur xbox 360. U need ot make sure u change the name on both the 20gb and ur newly formatted 500gbs. Have u Zero your 500gb drive before reformatting it with the xbox 360? if not that could be causing a problem as well.

Any drive type should work. I am using a Seagate Momentus 500GB Laptop,Notebook 2.5" 7200 Drive. There is a user on ebay selling them for like $95. Now there selling a 2tb for $175... grr I wish They had that before I bought the 500gb.. oh well

good tutorial. thank you

although you probably should fix the pictures with the right stuff if you haven't already, they were a little misleading

Hi

Just wanna say thanks

Followed this tutorial and now got 2tb harddrive working with xbr and able to inject/extract using FATXplorer.

One thing i must say if u have used the harddrive before on pc or whatever u need to null the drive this took over 8hrs on my pc.

I used Boot and Nuke to do this is dos with bootable cd.

just to give you fellas an update on my situation,

after installing hexworkshop v6 the restore on disk worked properly and now i have a 500GB hdd in the 360 enclosure working like an original with all partitions

Thank you Magnus for the tutorial

GUIDE.

G U I D E

Sorry a newbie question but can I format a USB attached HD and make it look like OEM?

Not as of today, in the future who knows


Drive has to be connected to the side hdd port for it to behave like an oem disk

Magnus,

I'm trying to get a hold of the latest fatxplorer, which one do you recommend? http://www.xboxscene.com/tools/tools.php?page=harddrive or do you have a link to one you used?

Thanks

and one more question, the step "Open hex workshop, open the drive and save sectors 9998663 to (sector before you name.txt mine is 10227591 I would put 10227590)save as padding.bin. (Use your own number!)"

in the 3rd pic it shows you using the start sector of name.txt (10227591) but you say "I would put 10227590"

So the 8th pic would be the start of name.txt (10227591) or the number before it "10227590"? or does it matter. I know my numbers will be different btw.

thanks

hi there.

I'm just looking at a way to swap my 120gb drive with a 320gb

Can I ask, is it absolutely necessary to 'zero' the drive? I'm just looking at ways of doing that now. Can the drives be zero'd while acting as usb drives to the pc or must they be connected directly to sata? Could you not just alternatively remove all partitions on the drive, and just let the new partitions be created over the top as normal?

Wouldnt this be easier?

You will need to restore Partition2 using Xplorer360 Extreme2 (get this from a retail M$ drive using Xplorer360 Extreme2) If you are using a non M$ hard drive you will need to add the partitions manually first for Xplorer360 Extreme2 to see the drive. Otherwise you will get a "No fatx partition found" error.

Add the missing partition manually starting at byte 0x80000 of your non M$ Drive. 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 yournon M$ 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 Extreme 2 and the FATX error should be gone and you should see 2 partitions now.

This info came from thespecialist a while back when he discovered what xplorer360 is looking for and then using xplrer360 Extreme2 restore partiton 2 you backed up from your M$ HDD. You will not be able to see anything in partition 3 with Xplorer360 Extreme2 but I recommend if you google this "FATXplorer 1.0 app developed by Eaton Cracked by Cyrax" you will find a cracked version and it even tells you what game the numbered folders are.

Now you will need to run the Update for Xbox1 Compatibility. you can find this here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

After downloading this file extract it and burn to a cdr and put it in your 360. it will show like it is a game. play it and install it. (I recommend trying a retail Xbox1 game to make sure it is all ok) Congrats you now have Xbox1 Emulation partiton restored and working.

could this not be potentially a much easier way to do it?

Use Ghost32....and create a ghost image of the 20gb (or whatever) full hdd.

then ghost that disk image back to the new drive.

That way in theory all 3 partitions should be made correctly?

Then have the 360 format the hdd - that way it should then correct the file size of partition 3...and bobs ya uncle....

I'm not sure about that method. I just tried this last night and came up with a few issues. I could view the new drive in FATXplorer but not in Le Fluffie after doing everything, and with the orig 20GB hard drive, my backup of Forza 3 and the save game loaded fine, after the swap, it came up as corrupted and I had to delete it, then when I tried to create a new Forza 3 file, the game froze when starting my first race.

I'm currently using Active @KillDisk to zero byte my new hard drive. I still have it in the 360 case connected via the 360 USB transfer cable from within Windows. Then, I'm going to try everything again since I still have my files from the 20 GB stored on my pc.

oh c'mon, putting a full 1:1 backup of a smaller drive onto a bigger one will mess everything up...
partitions 0-2 start at the SAME position for every drive, after partition 2 you'll want to have a certain amount of zeros (depending on the size of the NEW drive) so the size will show up correctly - if you migrate the zeros from the 20GB drive you'll mess stuff up.

if you don't want to migrate your data just format the CLEAN (eg zero'd) drive in xbr and write your "firstpart.bin" onto it. done.

if you want to migrate data you can either follow the guide or do the stuff above and migrate everything from partition 3 via some app - which might again mess stuff up because most apps don't seem to work well with big drives (at least for me).

in short: stick to the guide, it's not THAT complicated, it might take some time for 120 or 250GB but if done correctly everything WILL work fine.

reason I was thinking of ghost, was I was trying remember about 18months or so ago what I did to do my 120gb modded drive from a 20gb.

I remember at the time having problems with the partitions.....

but I've just trawled through some of my old posts on another site and this is what I did



Sooo....of course NOT using Ghost there, but just made a full DISK backup with Xplorer360. It put the partitions in the order that they should have been....and yes the partition 3 was corrupt, but once formatted in the 360 the partition was fine and has been ever since.

The only differences here I see are
a) not using the hddhackr .bin file as its not needed.
the size of hdd not being a predetermined 20 or 120gbbut of any size.
c) presuming that xbr_3 under the same conditions as above, would have also performed in the same way
d) in some peoples cases, the drive may have been previously used for data (though that could have happened with the old bevs drives I guess)
e) of course wdidle3 would no longer be used (well maybe if it was a wd drive )

just went setup my 2TB drive. I followed only the text, now I can even format the drive in NXE after this tutorial and it will keep the partitions. Thanks! I use Xport, which works pretty good. you can get it fron datels site for free.

I just tried this using a new WD 500Gb drive and my 20Gb hard drive full of saves, DLC etc and it didn't seem to work. I got 3 partitions instead of 1, but when the 500gb was hooked up to the xbox, it did not see any saved content. So then I reformatted using the xbox, played some games to save data to the HD, confirmed the data was there, and then brought HD back to the PC.
Xport360 still sees the 3 partitions, but it shows partition 3 as being empty. Partition 1 is empty too and 2 just has compatibility files I think. So where did the saves go??? 360HDD explorer also sees partition3 as empty, and FATXplorer fails to sync with drive giving a "not enough resources" error WTF?

Anyhow, any suggestions what to try next??

personally I don't see why my above method would not work. Also I'd already in effect copied data to it, when attempted the 2nd time roud....and did not need to zero the drive (ok so it was only a small amount of data such as profiles and a couple of xbla games etc). After setting the xbox to format it after the bad partition 3 it would then show up as the full available size

I'm trying to free up some pc hdd space to try it myself, as I have only a 120gb working xbox drive now, and want to take the full image the lazy way with my xplorer360extreme2 and then try to put it to a 320gb 205" drive to see what happens

seeing as that method works for regular 120gb bev drives as per the old method of drive swapping it should be ok..the only potential issue I could see - could perhaps be that the 360 only formats 120gb worth of space to the 3rd partition and not utilise the full space due to not hdd bin file being written to it

I've freed up nearly enough space on my pc now - so shortly I'll give it a go.

Certainly this way would be a lot easier...maybe time consuming though while a whole 120gb image is made (unless it perhaps only makes the image based on the amount of data held (about 40gb at mo)

Will post when know any more

just a update on my situation. xport could see the drive and files in partition 2. I transfered some XBLA games and they show in xport but not on the 360, so I formatted and now I dump all data from a 250gb usb drive through xexloader and now I can see the games.

Thanks for the tutorial.

Question about XBOX 1 games:

I completed the upgrade using the standard OEM method/transfer cable between a 20GB original drive -- and a HDDHackr formatted 120GB.

I am getting reports that XBOX 1 games that are compatible are not working on the upgraded drive, although it reported as successfully upgraded.

Does anyone know if this is a known issue with the HDDHackr created drives.

My original discussion of the subject here.

well i've just tried my own method of getting the drive to work - and can confirm it works with no problems whatsoever.....and no messing with hex editing the hdd for those that dont want to or have problems doing that

So you only did these steps:

7. Connected 20gb drive back to pc, this time choosing a FULL image backup.
8. connected 120gb HD back to pc, restored the 20gb image onto it. This gave the results showing partitions 1-3....but partition 3 is corrupt
9. Connect 120gb to 360 - choose to format it again. This corrects the partition3.
10. 120gb drive back to pc, then copied over all save etc data into partition3 that I'd backed up previously.
11. As advised to help HD run more efficiently and not click boot to dos and ran a tool downloaded from Western Digital called wdidle3.exe. Ran "wdidle3 /d" which disabled the timer.
12. Back in 360 and working like a charm All 3 partitions available.

And it worked?

I'm looking at going from an OEM 20gig drive to a 500gig with the easiest method.

And does it change anything that my 20gig is coming from a banned console?

what is the fastest way to find "name.txt" in winhex?

the easy way to do this: open your drive with winhex( http://www.x-ways.net/winhex.zip ) by pressing F9, select yournon M$ drive, then click search and then click "Find Text" and search for "name.txt" when you find it you will see a window like the picture below. the offset is what is needed to calculate the magic numbers. of course the magic numbers have been calculated already for many of the drives.

So far I know of:
20GB : 00 78 03 , 0x131229000
60GB : 00 C9 0C , 0x131B7A000
100GB : 00 1A 16 , 0x1324CB000
120GB : 00 C2 1A , 0x132973000
160GB : 00 13 24 , 0x1332C4000
500GB : 00 40 73 , 0x1381F0000
1TB : 00 B0 E7 , 0x13f661000

midnight--

im curious as to how you did this as well. mainly because i cannot get hex workshop to read any of my 20 gig hard drives. i get a error as soon as i start stating that sector 0 is write protected or damaged. i have a backup image of one of my 20 gig HDs but i am unsure of how to get that onto my 500 gig HD for my jtag console. so if you could please elaborate on this i would greatly appreciate it.

thank you

His thread is a couple down from this one. Step by step instructions. I'll be doing this with 1 tb drive instead of hex editing.

No thank you

thanks bling, didnt look there for it. however, if you just use acronis true image to wipe the drive, the jtag box will see it and format it for you. easy as that.

Thanks for the guide! I'll be giving this a try shortly.

Does anyone know what happens to game saves? These are signed to the ID of the storage device I thought. Do they need to be resigned or does the ID not change with this process?

TIA

Currently having issues with that, not sure if it is because I used a 360 drive that was from another xbox to do this or what. But I would really like my saved games and every time I try to load them the game tells me I need to go the Xbox dashboard and delete my saved game to play. Forza 3 doesn't even let me past the main menu.

I'm also having problem with game saves, none of the games I've tested can read the game save, they either say it's corrupted or non existent. I still have the back up data I'm guessing I need to do something with that...

nvm figured it out.

i've done everythiong as you posted and i even didn't have to format 500gb hdd, becouse the size was OK in xbox, it even has a content that 20gb had (mw2 and xexloader) and the content worked. BUT IT STILL SAYS "failed to read chain cluster maps." ;/ i've spent ~24h wiping disk by darik's boot and nuke from ultimate boot cd and it was just waiste of time. Can I do sth to made my disk working with FATXplorer/Xplorer360/Xport?

Hey, I was attempting to do this going from 120gb to 500gb.

Here is what I did:

Zeroed and formatted my 500gb and found name.txt at 10227592.
Opened my 120gb and found name.txt at 10046360.

Created firstpart.bin by saving sectors 0 to 10046359 of my 120gb.
Created secondpart.bin by saving sectors 10046360 to the end of my 120gb.
Created padding.bin by saving sectors 10046360 to 10227591 of my 500gb.
Zeroed padding.bin.

Restored firstpart.bin to 500gb starting at sector 0.
Restored padding.bin to 500gb starting at sector 10046360.
Restored secondpart.bin to 500gb starting at sector 10227592.

At offset F0C0 in Xplorer360_09b6_250gb.exe, changed it from 00 00 00 to 00 40 73.

However, Xplorer360 can not open Partitions 1 or 3. Any help?

is there any way to do this without a xport or similar device?

how are you adding 2tb drives. the biggest 2.5" i can fins is 750gb and are expensive?

Thanks dude!!!!

Really weird... Basically I plugged in my 250gig nonms hard drive that I had formatted on the 360. I already had a bunch of games and homebrew loaded so I didnt want to wipe it clean and have to do it all again just to play xbox 1 gamse. and ftping the whole drive would take forever

so all I did was plug it in and open it with xplorer. i backed up a partition 2 from my stock ms 20gb and then restored it onto the non ms 250gb.

thats it! xbox 1 games load now. thanks

I would like to thank "Midnight Tboy" for post 24!!
I used this method and it worked perfectly!

can this be done for a 2tb external usb drive or no

"First part I am using a 20gb for an example. It would be best to use one as well. Unless your copying your data.
Open hex work shop and save sectors: start 0, to 9998663, name it firstpart.bin"

When i start this process do i need a 20gig image? (.bin) Or am i creating an entirely new file in hexworkshop?

Because when i open hexworkshop i can not find this save sector option at all..