- An xbox360
- A 20Gb Xbox360 HDD
- A Western Digital Scorpio BEVS LAT 120Gb HDD
- An image of an official 120Gb Xbox360 HDD (HDDSS.bin)
- A computer with sata plugs
- A size 6 and 10 torque screwdriver
- Patience
- hands, eye's and a brain (all your own preferably)
- A windows boot disk (any will do, 98,ME or XP. Just as long as it boots into DOS
- And most importantly The Specialist's HDDhackr
You can get the drives & sata adapters from the shops, but ebay is better
HDDhackr can be found here
Image can be gotten be taken from an official HDD (or just do what everyone normal does...download)
Startup disks can be a problem if you're running XP, If you have ME or lower you can make one witha floppy disk and sytem panel
-[Please note that the finished drive needs to be Xbox formatted before you can use xplorer360 to backup the first drive and transfer the contents to the second.]-
-[Also do note that this WILL void the warrantee on your 360 Drive]-
Currently known issues: the only current known issue is the SATA drive needs 3 partitions
(I used 1 partition. It works, but is damned near impossible to transfer the data, and drive updates don't work)
Anyway...I think thats everything...On with the tutorial
step 1: Once you have all of the above start by taking apart the 360 HDD (tutorials can be found with google, Xboxscene has a good guide.).
Gently prise the Xbox360's Seagate 2.5" SATA HDD out of its HDD casing
Place the HDDhackr executable on the root of your C drive (that is unless it's a sata drive)
-[You must unplug any SATA devices your PC already has]-
(skip this step if you already have an image of the drive)
step 2: Plug the 120Gb 360 drive into your PC and Boot into DOS using the Boot disk
type:
C:
HDDHACKR -d
Hddhackr will then make a HDDSS.BIN file
Unplug the 120Gb 360 drive
step 3: Plug in the WD Scorpio Drive
Ensure that the HDDSS.BIN file is on the root of your C drive
You will need to ensure that there are 3 partitions on the drive.(you can run it with less partions, but the content can't be)
Use the Fdisk command in Dos to do this
(I will post an explanation soon)
(here is where you make the 120 Gb compatible with your Xbox360)
Step 4: Boot into DOS
Then type:
C:
HDDHACKR -f
It will ask if you want to make an undo file before flashing the disk
Type: Y
if you want to check it worked repeat step 3 and will tell you your disk is ready
Step 5: place the WD Scorpio drive in the 360 HDD case
plug the HDD into the 360's sata&power plug.
Step 6: plug the HDD into the 360
The 360 should read it as unformatted, dont panic, just try to open it and the 360 will ask to format it
enter your 360's serial number when it asks for it (SN is found in System settings if you didn't know)
it should read as having something like 107Gb free (yeah well their 20Gb is only 13Gb, so what can ya expect)
Now What happens to what to the contents of your old Drive you say?
well you can Either leave it where it is, transfer it via Memory unit (VERY longwinded) or use Xplorer360 to backup your drive to your C drive where you can transfer it to the 120Gb
Step 7:Reassemble and enjoy your extra space
enjoy your new 360 HDD