Good Afternoon - Thanks for the tutorial. After reading it, I started doing it last night. I'm having an issue, though, where I can't restore my original data onto the new drive. Below is what I did and the current state. Please let me know what you think needs to be done: What I Did - All steps performed on a workstation with fresh install of Windows 7 x64 1.

Bought a new WD 2.5' drive which I thought would work: Western Digital WD3200BEVT Blue Series 320gb 2. Created bootable USB drive and flashed the hddss.bin for the 320gb drives. It did give message, but proceeded anyways.

How to create a xbox 360 hard drive from scratch (Western Digital Only!) Discussion in 'Xbox 360 Modding & Tutorials' started by bmizzle, Mar 24, 2013 with 54 replies and 237,816 views.

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Port was not in AHCI mode 3. Connected new drive to xbox 360, booted up, and was able to format drive (after entering serial #) 4. Attached original Xbox Drive (Fujitsu MHW2120BH 120gb) to sata port and booted up 5. Started Xplorer360 (beta 6) Accessed the old drive, backed up partition 2, also backed up some files from partition 3 - shut down 6. Swapped drives putting in freshly xbox formatted in and booted up 7. Started Xplorer (320gb version) - When I went to open drive, it gave error saying it 'Cannot Find a FATX drive to open[FONT=arial, verdana, geneva, lucida, lucida grande, helvetica, sans-serif] ' [/FONT] Yes, I ran Xplorer as admin and even tried compatibility mode as well as different versions I found of Xplorer360 - all gave the same error.

I found and tried the app Xport360. This found and read both drives so I did the same process above with it. With it, I've gotten as far as getting the new folders onto the new drive - but - when I put it in the Xbox and boot up, I don't see the data. I have verified that the data copied and the Xbox does see the hard drive, but shows zeros next to all of it's categories.

I thought I'd just put the old drive in and copy save games to flash drive via xbox console - but when I do, The xbox doesn't recognize the old hard drive! I really don't care about anything but my save games. Any way to get them back? What can I do to fix this? I tried it, didn't work, i followed all the steps, Wrote 0's on the drive 1st, HDDHACKR v1.40 + HDDSS.bin followed instructions it does flash but it shows numbers, no such thing as Hitachi, or Fujitsu.ver. And after i did the partition part it was 100% suceful it said firmware (nul) wrong,, something in red.

And it just stays there, but yes i Reverted the drive, but i really want it, I got this one because it's 320Gb and 16mb cache, @7200 RPM.if i knew it's going to be this much trouble, should've went for 250 GB BEVT, seems like those are easier.anyways any help i'd appreciate it, by the way if anyone needs UNDO.bin for WD2300BEKT, i don't mind helping out. Happy holidays guys.

System Name Jimmy 2004's PC Processor S754 AMD Athlon64 3200+ @ 2640MHz Motherboard ASUS K8N Cooling AC Freezer 64 Pro + Zalman VF1000 + 5x120mm Antec TriCool Case Fans Memory 1GB Kingston PC3200 (2x512MB) Video Card(s) Saphire 256MB X800 GTO @ 450MHz/560MHz (Core/Memory) Storage 500GB Western Digital SATA II + 80GB Maxtor DiamondMax SATA Display(s) Digimate 17' TFT (1280x1024) Case Antec P182 Audio Device(s) Audigy 4 + Creative Inspire T7900 7.1 Speakers Power Supply Corsair HX520W Software Windows XP Home. Some people may consider the new 120GB Xbox 360 hard drive to be a complete rip-off a little expensive at $179 considering that you can buy a 2.5' external drive of the same capacity for under $100. And Microsoft's justification for the price? 'I know it sounds expensive to a lot of consumers but we are comparable to those types of drives and also we have to go through a lot more testing and security,' said Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg. Anyway, has a good guide on how you can make your own working 120GB hard drive for the Xbox 360 at a much lower price. First you will need to get hold of a Western Digital Scorpio BEVS-LAT drive (it's not too expensive and it's the only drive that is known to work).

Next you need to download Hddhacker v0.90 (built by The Specialist) and dump your hddss.bin firmware file from your 20GB Xbox drive onto a floppy disk by attaching the drive to a SATA controller (most modern motherboards should be fine), and then flash this file to the new 120GB drive. After this your drive should be ready to go. For full details on this procedure, read the guide on. This is one area where the PS3 can clearly show its superiority, as users can add their own 2.5' drive without voiding the warranty. Which reminds me, the warranty on both the new drive and the Xbox will probably be useless after doing this, so keep that in mind!