Posted By:
TheSpecialist
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 !
I did some reverse engineering and hacking and here's a version I fixed to work with 120 gb:
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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
Xplorer360 Beta 6 - Adds Support for 120GB HDD and 512MB MC
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