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***!!! I'm not taking any credit for this tutorial, I'm simply just converting it from one site to another because I used this tutorial and had a 320gb hard drive for my xbox 360 in 10 minutes !!!***
So here we go... 10 minutes people, go fast and don't over complicate this -- it's an automatic process!!!
Custom Hard Drive Tutorial for XBOX 360:
What's Covered In this tutorial:
This guide will show you how I did that, its worth mentioning that you can also hack a 20gb, 60gb and 120gb drives, however i think doing a 250gb is the best value for money.
If you have an Xbox 360 slim you can also hack a hard drive using this guide and connect it directly to the console!
THE START:
Ok lets get started, first you will need to buy a hard drive to use in the Xbox 360.
Hddhackr will only work with the following Western Digital Drives:
You can not use another make of hard drive for this hack, it has to be one of the supported Western Digital drives.
I purchased a 250gb WD Scorpio Blue Series drive (WD2500BEVT) for around £30 at CCL Computers.
For those of you who live in the States, you can get the same drive for around $47 at Newegg.
I would highly recommend you also purchase a Western Digital Scorpio Blue Drive, you have nothing to gain by buying a more expensive drive.
The first thing you will want to do is create a bootable USB drive, for this I used a tool called Bootable USB Drive Creator Tool (recommended by hddhackr tool).
Download Bootable USB Drive Creator Tool
Unzip and open/run Bootable USB Drive Creator Tool, be sure to right click and run as an administrator. Use the following settings (remember, 10 minutes to complete the whole process!!!):
Now [Click here to view this link]:
Now [Click here to view this link]HddHackr_v1.40_Build_20130303
Unzip both to the bootable USB drive you just made:
The end result should be something like this, don’t worry you will not have an UNDO.BIN yet.
You will need to shut down your pc now, I would strongly advise you disconnect all the other hard drive in your computer just to stop you accidently hacking the wrong drive!
Now connect the hard drive you want to hack to your computer:
Power your computer back on, before you carry on it might be an idea to enter you bios configuration and ensure the SATA operation mode is set to ATA or disable AHCI depending on the options you have. On some motherboards this can also be called legacy or enhanced, if you are presented with this you want to set it to legacy. This will vary depending on your motherboard / bios.
The above appears to be the most common cause for people not been able to flash there drives.
Now tell your computer to to boot from the usb drive, this will be different depending on your motherboard, on my pc I have to press F11 then select the drive I wish to boot from.
You will find yourself at a dosprompt, type hddhackr and press enter.
If you've done everything above correctly, hddhackr will have listed all the drives in your system, in my case the drive I want to hack is number 5.
After entering the number you will be asked if you want to dump, flash or restore the firmware, select F to flash.
Type in the name of the security sector you want to flash, this will be HDDSS.BIN if you have followed this tutorial.
You will get a message saying that the information in file HDDSS.BIN does not match the drive’s firmware info. Do you want to flash the Xbox 360 compatible firmware? Type "Y" for yes and press enter.
Say yes to this:
Your drive should now be hacked if you followed this tutorial word for word, congratulations!
PLEASE PAY STRICT ATTENTION TO THIS:
^^ FOLLOW THOSE DIRECTIONS IF YOU DON'T WANT TO MESS ANYTHING UP!!! ^^
***!!! I'm not taking any credit for this tutorial, I'm simply just converting it from one site to another because I used this tutorial and had a 320gb hard drive for my xbox 360 in 10 minutes !!!***
So here we go... 10 minutes people, go fast and don't over complicate this -- it's an automatic process!!!
Custom Hard Drive Tutorial for XBOX 360:
What's Covered In this tutorial:
This guide will show you how I did that, its worth mentioning that you can also hack a 20gb, 60gb and 120gb drives, however i think doing a 250gb is the best value for money.
If you have an Xbox 360 slim you can also hack a hard drive using this guide and connect it directly to the console!
THE START:
Ok lets get started, first you will need to buy a hard drive to use in the Xbox 360.
Hddhackr will only work with the following Western Digital Drives:
- WD Scorpio Series BEVS/BEAS
- WD Scorpio Blue Series BEVS/BEVT/BPVT
- WD Scorpio Black Series BEKT/BJKT
- WD VelociRaptor Series
- WD AV-25 Series BUDT
You can not use another make of hard drive for this hack, it has to be one of the supported Western Digital drives.
I purchased a 250gb WD Scorpio Blue Series drive (WD2500BEVT) for around £30 at CCL Computers.
For those of you who live in the States, you can get the same drive for around $47 at Newegg.
I would highly recommend you also purchase a Western Digital Scorpio Blue Drive, you have nothing to gain by buying a more expensive drive.
The first thing you will want to do is create a bootable USB drive, for this I used a tool called Bootable USB Drive Creator Tool (recommended by hddhackr tool).
Download Bootable USB Drive Creator Tool
Unzip and open/run Bootable USB Drive Creator Tool, be sure to right click and run as an administrator. Use the following settings (remember, 10 minutes to complete the whole process!!!):
- Select your USB drive
- Set the file system as FAT
- Tick quick format and Create bootable drive
- Select the box with 3 dots and choose the USB Drive Boot Files\MS-DOS folder as the location.
- Hit start and you will have a bootable usb drive within a few seconds.
Now [Click here to view this link]:
Now [Click here to view this link]HddHackr_v1.40_Build_20130303
Unzip both to the bootable USB drive you just made:
- Your Hard Drive Security Sector HDDSS.BIN
- HddHackr.exe & Readme.txt
The end result should be something like this, don’t worry you will not have an UNDO.BIN yet.
You will need to shut down your pc now, I would strongly advise you disconnect all the other hard drive in your computer just to stop you accidently hacking the wrong drive!
Now connect the hard drive you want to hack to your computer:
Power your computer back on, before you carry on it might be an idea to enter you bios configuration and ensure the SATA operation mode is set to ATA or disable AHCI depending on the options you have. On some motherboards this can also be called legacy or enhanced, if you are presented with this you want to set it to legacy. This will vary depending on your motherboard / bios.
The above appears to be the most common cause for people not been able to flash there drives.
Now tell your computer to to boot from the usb drive, this will be different depending on your motherboard, on my pc I have to press F11 then select the drive I wish to boot from.
You will find yourself at a dosprompt, type hddhackr and press enter.
If you've done everything above correctly, hddhackr will have listed all the drives in your system, in my case the drive I want to hack is number 5.
After entering the number you will be asked if you want to dump, flash or restore the firmware, select F to flash.
Type in the name of the security sector you want to flash, this will be HDDSS.BIN if you have followed this tutorial.
You will get a message saying that the information in file HDDSS.BIN does not match the drive’s firmware info. Do you want to flash the Xbox 360 compatible firmware? Type "Y" for yes and press enter.
Say yes to this:
Your drive should now be hacked if you followed this tutorial word for word, congratulations!
PLEASE PAY STRICT ATTENTION TO THIS:
^^ FOLLOW THOSE DIRECTIONS IF YOU DON'T WANT TO MESS ANYTHING UP!!! ^^
***!!! I'm not taking any credit for this tutorial, I'm simply just converting it from one site to another because I used this tutorial and had a 320gb hard drive for my xbox 360 in 10 minutes !!!***
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