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Hello everyone! So I had a spare computer lying around so I decided to scrap it for parts. Lo and behold it had an old IDE 160 GB HDD inside. So I booted the PC up and made sure there was nothing important on it and decided to pull her out of the system. So with that being said I've been making a ton of new tutorials on an Xbox I have. So today I decided to switch out Hard Drives.

Tools:
  • T-10 Torx Screw Driver
  • T-20 Torx Screw Driver
  • Philips Screw Driver
  • A Hard Drive
  • A power source for the new HDD
If you are using a SATA HDD you will need a IDE to SATA adapter.
You can buy one here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pata-IDE-To...-HDD-DVD-Parallel-to-Serial-ATA-/171424564491

NOT ALL DRIVES WILL WORK! Some drives will not work unless you have a Hard modded Xbox. There is a public list that has been created to show which drives have worked in the past. You can find the list here: http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=list
If your drive was not on the list but works/doesn't work, please help everyone else out by adding yours to the list.:wink:

How to install a new Hard Drive:


Files to download:

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Great tutorial! I just got done finishing my install of a 200 GB IDE Maxtor hard drive! Thank you!
 
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I'm glad I could help!
I do have one question though. I put a 200 GB hard drive in and it only said I had 140 GB available and I did what you did at the end of the tutorial and then it made it even smaller and it went to 120 GB. Why is this?
 
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I do have one question though. I put a 200 GB hard drive in and it only said I had 140 GB available and I did what you did at the end of the tutorial and then it made it even smaller and it went to 120 GB. Why is this?
Try going into your dashboard settings. Go down to storage. Then it should say enable f and G drive and you hsould enable both of them.
 
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Alright I enabled G Drive just waiting for it to pop up!
 
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Done mine a while ago fitted a 500gb sata hard drive. And put around 8000 games on it up to now. Brilliant for emulation
 
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