FIRST OF ALL
1. I TAKE NO CREDITS AT ALL. I HAVE PICK ALL THE GUIDES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
2. ANYTHING THAT IS IN GREEN COLOR, IS MY OWN ADD-ON NOTES.
3. THIS GUIDE IS DONE ON WIN XP SP3.
4. DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. IF YOU SCREW UP YOUR HDD, YOU CAN EITHER THROW AWAY OR SELL IT.
5. IT WILL VOID YOUR XBOX 360 HDD WARRANTY
6. YOUR GAMES MIGHT CORRUPT DURING THE TRANSFER. BUT THIS IS YET TO BE CONFIRM SINCE RANDOM EFFECT ( So far only 2 by 2 different people. But you can always try recopy again. )

Any comment of feedback will be welcome. Any addition guide from you guys which is helpful will be given credit.

UPDATES
V3 15/12/2008 - ADDED NOTES TO AVOID COMPLICATION AND OTHER STUFF
V2.5 27/11/2008 - SIMPLIFY HEXING AND ADDED FEW MISSING WORD.
V2 21/11/2008 - ADDED IN PICTURE AND EXTRA AND EDITED SOME GUIDE.
V1 20/11/2008 - COMPILE GUIDE FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

Credits
roofus and anger = Xplorer360
TheSpecialist = HDDHackr and Xplorer360
hobartrus - tutorial in xbox scene
xpk1234 - tutorial in bbs.a9vg.com and picture
DarkSaviour - for compiling the guide and helping out the faqs.
Jcsy - for highlighting some Vista issue
wintzen - for helping out
newce - for avoiding corrupt hdd
chickenducksoup - how to use old hdd as external hdd.
and to all other who also help out.

List of person sucessful
++Will update later ++
For those who I never include their name in the list, please PM me.

[QUICK GUIDE REFERENCE
[GUIDE] Upgrade / Replacement of Xbox 360 HDD

TROUBLESHOOTS
ABC01 = FLASHING HDD EDITING HDDHACKR
ABC02 = CLEARING XBOX 360 HDD CACHE
ABC03 = OPENING XBOX 360 HDD

Notes
1. Picture can't be post too many. LOL. Forgot about this . Anyway, I'll find another way to put it in.
2. More update are coming soon
3. I need tester for games that got corrupt ( fable 2 or forza 2) re copy again and see it works or not.


[GUIDE] Upgrade / Replacement of Xbox 360 HDD
1. Stuff that you will need
A. A pc with a sata port. If your using an old pc ( like mine which use IDE ), then you have to go and get a sata card. Something like this = SATA CARD
Make sure you have 2 sata cable if you are running on just 1 HDD for your PC.

B.. A Western Digital Scorpio WD1200BEVS 120 GB SATA hard drive ( notebook = 2.5' ). Is hard to find 120 gb these days. A 160 gb would do. Reminder, it must be a BEVS type. Is hard to find these type also. A BEVT type also can but you will encounter problem on the way. Ask wunan for more help cause he had succeeded flashing it with BEVT. Don't buy any larger then this because it's pointless cause the hdds.bin was only meant for 120gb. Even if you buy larger, it only recognise 120gb only. Maybe in the future but who knows.

C. A Floppy boot disk, you don't have, then you can either create a bootable usb/pendrive drive or bootable CD.
D. A Xbox 360 with a HDD 20gb?
E. A torx T6 and T10 screwdriver.
F. HDDhackr
G. Xplore360 " extreme build 2 "
H. Hex Workshop
I. hddss.bin dumped from a retail 360 120GB hdd. Due to copyright coded, you have to search it yourself. Use the search engine.

NOTE Don't format your WD HDD with Windows, straight flash it with the hddhackr

Note for vista user - Thx to Jcsy for highlighting me these.
You have to use administrator account in order ease your job a long the way. To enable administrator account, follow these steps

1. you'll need to open a command prompt in administrator mode by right-clicking and choosing "Run as adminstrator "
2. Now type the following command: net user administrator /active:yes
3. Log out and you will able to see "Administrator" account.
4. To disable it, just follow back step 1-2 but this time type net user administrator /active:no

Important note. Thx for newce for hilighting it
For those who are going to exchange the new hdd unofficially and manage to backup the profile and save files from the old hdd to pc, please do not connect your old hdd to pc through SATA directly, this may corrupt the old hdd sector and cause the x360 console can't recognize it. Once your hdd couldn't recognize by console or xplorer360, then just call it a day.

Solution:
Remember, please use USB to SATA such as portable hdd to connect between hdd and pc each time ( old and new hdd ). this may prevent from corruption.
p/s: not everyone may meet this problem, but this issue is existing still.


Guide / Tutorial
2. Let's get started. Format your floppy disk and make it bootable. If you don't have a floppy drive, then you can use usb, pendrive and make it bootable. A bootable Cd would do also. Copy HDDHackr.com and the hddss.bin file to your bootable floppy disk / media. FOR THOSE WHO USING FLOPPY, JUST PUT IN YOUR FLOPPY AND THEN GO TO THE FLOPPY DRIVE, RIGHT CLICK AND FORMAT. TICK ON THE BOX " CREATE MS DOS BOOTABLE " . ONCE FORMAT INTO A BOOTABLE MS-DOS, COPY AND PASTE YOUR hddhackr and hddss.bin into the floppy.

3.Turn off your PC. Disconnect your HDD ( all Pc HDD ) and connect your WD BEVS drive, and boot the PC up on the floppy. If for some reason when you boot it and you ran into some error, please refer to Troubleshoot ABC01. When you boot up, you will have something like this.



4. At the command prompt type "hddhackr -f" and hit enter. Follow through the prompts and be sure to create an undo file when asked. When you done that, you will have something like this



5. Wait for a few seconds once it have finish before turning off your PC. After turning off, count for 10 sec ( 20 - 30 sec if you are scared of just be safe ) On the pc and boot the floppy again. Run "hddhackr -f" again and it will tell you if the drive will be compatible with your 360 or not. If compatible then you have something like this



6. Turn off your PC, disconnect the WD BEVS. You might want to clear the cache to save up little time on transferring files. On how to do it. Refer Troubleshoot ABC02. Now disconnect your 20GB drive from your 360. One how to open your Xbox 360 HDD, please refer to Troubleshoot ABC03

Disassemble the casing, and remove the 20GB drive. Hook the WB BEVS up to the connector and plug it into the 360. You're going to have to unhook the drive and pull it out again so I'd recommend not completely reassembling the casing... I just put one screw in to hold the drive in.

7. Turn on your 360, goto the system blade, "console settings", and "system info." Jot down the serial number, you'll need it in the next step.



8. Go back to the system blade, goto "memory" and you should have the option to format the drive. It will ask for the serial number, type it in and send it flying. (if it says "no device detected" something is wrong. Check the connections.)



9. Connect back your PC HDD and hook the 20GB hard drive up to your PC. Boot up into Windows, create a folder on your desktop called "xbox" and run Xplorer360 Beta 6 "extreme build 2"

10. Within Xplorer360 click "Drive" then "Open" then "Hard Drive or Mem Card". It should take a few seconds and then pop up some partitions in the left hand window. (If it doesn't detect the drive, check the connections and also make sure that your SATA controller driver is properly installed.)



11. Before copying make sure your HDD got at least 12-15gb ( depends on how much data you have in your old hdd ) free space. Click on Partition 03, select all the items in the right hand window, and drag and drop them to the folder you created on your desktop. If you get errors you'll have to open task manager (ctrl-alt-del) and manually kill the program. reopen the program and drag and drop the folders one at a time. When you find the problem folder create a subfolder in the xbox folder on your desktop with the same name as the problem folder, go into the problem folder and copy the folders/files in there one at a time. You may have to do this a few times, creating folders within folders. For me the problem file was a 0kb .db file within the compatibility folder under a few subfolders. I couldn't get the file to copy so I just created a blank text file and renamed it to the exact name of the file (it was st.db or something like that.) Once the copy starts going it will probably take awhile, depending on how much data you have... so take a break. I suggest best is drop each folder 1 by 1 if possible. The 1st break down would do the job.

12. Once done backup partition 3, this is an optional ( I skip this part ). If you have Xbox 1 games on your hdd, then I suggest you back this partition 2 up. Choose the "backup partition 2" option to dump the second partition to a bin file (named part2.bin or something like that.) It should create a 262MB file.

13. Shutdown the PC and disconnect the 20GB drive. By this time the 360 should be done formatting the drive. Create a porfile and a save game before you remove your new HDD from your Xbox. These may avoid the complication of hexing. So turn it off and disconnect the 120GB drive. Hook it up to the PC and boot up to Windows.

14. Open the Xplorer360 Beta 6 " extreme build 2 ", and try open your HDD as step 10. If there is error occur or can't be detected or only detect partition 1, then you have to do some hexing. If you have no problem, then skip the next part and go to Step 20

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15. Open up Hex Workshop. Click "Options" and "Preferences." On the "Layout" tab in the "Rows" section uncheck the "Fit to Window" box and ensure the Bytes/Row is set to 16. This isn't necessary but it makes the next steps easier.

16. Click "Disk" then "Open Drive", change the "Select" drop down to Physical Disks and locate your 120GB drive. Be sure you select the correct drive or this could potentially cause catastrophic problems.

17. This is the potentially tricky part. You need to get to byte 80000 in hex, but Hex Workshop doesn't let you go to a specific byte offset on drives, only to a specific sector. Assuming the sector size of your drive is the same as mine, or 512 decimal bytes (which I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't be,) the sector you should have to goto is 400 (hex). You do this by clicking "Edit" then "Goto", typing 400 in the "Offset" field and choosing "Beginning of Drive" in the "From Where" section.

18. You should see a bunch of columns numbered 0-F, and they should all have "00" in them. If they have anything else in them you are either working with the wrong drive or you are at the wrong offset, don't change anything!

19. Within Hex Workshop open Xplorer360.exe "extreme build 2". I'm assuming that this change already exists in the "extreme build 2" version so you can probably skip this step, but I'm including it because I did this. Goto offset F0C2 (hex) where you will find the following values:

68 77 03

change them to:

00 C2 1A

Save the file. You will be prompted to make a backup, which is always a good idea.

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20. Load Xplorer360 beta 6 version "extreme build 2" open the 120GB drive like you did with the 20GB drive in step 10.

21. Expand Partition 03 and copy all of the data from the xbox folder you created on your desktop. This will take awhile depending on how much data you have, so take another break.

22. Once finish copying back partition 3 onto the new HDD, then select "restore partition 2", select the 262mb bin file you made in step 11 (part2.bin.) Once it completes, your drive is ready!

23. Now, Shutdown your PC, pop the 120GB drive into your 360 enclosure. It's probably a good idea to only partially assemble it so you can test it. If you hook it up and your 360 boots up and looks like it did on your 20GB, you should be done! You may want to check your XBL connection and ensure your XBLA games and other DLC works.

24. As for the old HDD, you can use it as an external HDD. How to make your old hdd use as external HDD. Thx to chickenducksoup
connect to 2.5 HDD sata external case
go to >right click my computer
>manage
>disk management
>delete and make new partition

Pictures and troubleshoot will be upload later. I hope this will help guide you easily. Please post your feedback, comment or success or failure or what ever the it is about Upgrade and Replacement Xbox 360 HDD.

Sorry for the long guide. Just wanted to be detail. Thx.

TROUBLESHOOTS

ABC01 = FLASHING HDD EDITING HDDHACKR. Thanks to DarkSaviour for translating it.

1. Click Start, “Run” type in msinfo32


2. Choose “Storage/IDE” (If you’re using SATA card your need to choose SCSI)

Msinfo32 example above:

3. Find your Sata Controller, should have 5 I/O Ports, Choose the first and the third. You need to find the last 4 digits before “-“. Which Line 1 = 09F0 and Line 3 = 0970 (The digits will different according to your SATA controller)

4. Run your Hex editor, open the HDDHACKR in your floppy disk, go to the last row of the number which will be “00003690) the last 4 pairs should be default as “4D 50 52 54”. Example Below:


5. Ok now change the last 4 pairs of digits to “09 F0 09 70” (Digits will be vary according to your SATA)


ABC02 = CLEARING XBOX 360 HDD CACHE
Before removing it, I suggest you clear your HDD cache just to speed up the transfer file a little. How to clear cache.

Clear All Installed Game Updates and Console Cache

1. Go to the "system" blade
2. Select "memory"
3. Press Y on the HD symbol
4. Press X,X, Left Bumper, Right Bumper, X,X
5. A message will appear saying: "Do you want to perform maintenance on your Xbox 360 storage devices?"
6. Select Yes

ABC03 = OPENING XBOX 360 HDD
WARNING : BY DOING THIS, YOU WILL AGREE TO VOID YOUR WARRANTY FOR YOUR XBOX 360 HDD

1. Flip it over like this. Now, use the torx T6 screwdriver and open those screws.


2. You have to open the back part and push the casing to the front. The front part act as a hook. When you open, you have something like these


3. Becareful not to lose the spring and the grey button.


4. Now use a torx T10 screwdriver to open these screws


5. Next, unplug the cable connecting to the HDD, and you have now successfully open your Xbox 360 HDD


If you need extra guide on how to open it, refer here Open Xbox 360 HDD[/COLOR]

This post has been edited by MmxZero: Jan 23 2009, 09:42 PM

1. Is this a console mod? i taught it was a HDD mod.
2. This upgrade doesn't need you to flash firmware, why do you want to flash your firmware?
3. The new NXE enable the feature. So blame who if people want to exploit it ?

These guides are for those who just want to upgrade their HDD and save money from buying a Rm600+ just for 120gb. But there is a risk for doing it so. These guides are also for those HDD failure who just want to know how to replace and transfer their data to new HDD.

The partition 3 consist of all your data includes gamertag, save game, dl content, video and etc except for Xbox 1 games.

Is up to you whether you want to transfer it or not. if you don't have anything store in the 20gb HDD then, after formatting it the new HDD, you can just straight use it.

Since you are using a memory card, after format the new HDD, you can just copy via using xbox 360 in the memory setting there.

I hope this answer your question.

This post has been edited by MmxZero: Nov 20 2008, 06:50 PM

Nope. The unique is just the coding ( if i'm not mistaken ) that MS has done. This file is just to format the file into a right sector and partition in order to be compatible with Xbox 360. Just like formatting your new HDD for Pc use. If I'm not mistaken.

The risk of getting ban, I don't know. So far since these was introduce, 2 years ago? maybe no one ( what i heard and seen so far ) got ban because of HDD. Maybe in the future? Who knows?

void the warranty on HDD. Does your HDD located inside your console? If so then you have to open your console and then yes it will void your warranty console.

The 2nd statement I don't get it. Void what HDD?

Did you try checking again the hexing part again? Because once you change drive, the hexing value changes again.

Just drag and drop.

BEVS should be easier cause the software was created for that. While some had problem flashing the bevt at the start.

Sorry if I haven't include the troubleshoot. Any problem please post here. I'll help as much as I can.

No. Save games are tied to gamertag.

Sorry for the late reply. Just came back from class. Dark Saviour I want to thank you from helping me compiling the guide and answer the question in forums. Credits will be given to you. Thx

I'll post up the picture today. But not many. I'll hope it wil do for now. Sunday I will upload whatever picture is still missing.


Thx for helping it. If you don't mind I'll take the picture from the compile guide and put in? Anything you want to add on?


You mean using X-sata?

Can you quick summaries what you have done so far? Just want to know where you went wrong.

Yup he did.

Just updated mine, can't put too many picture.

I'll figure out away.

Yes. Only those you bought with your gametag.

i think the it's the formatting floppy with windows 98se. How did you format to that format?

Put your floppy in. right click in and choose format.

There is 2 small boxes. 1 is quick format and the other 1 boot with ms-dos smth like that. Tick that box and format.

You got to do hexing.

Using the hex workshop, clicking "Edit" then "Goto", typing 400 ( hex ) in the "Offset" field and choosing "Beginning of Drive" in the "From Where" section.

If you see all zero, then continue to the next step.

Sorry I couldn't reply. I got class so I had to sleep early. Pure theory class for the next 6 hours, ya it's unbelievable if you don't sleep in class.

I'm also preparing for my exam. After my exam, I'll simplify the hexing part.

Any comment you want to make on the guide? ( like hard to understand this part, not simplify enough , etc )

can you guys Pm me your Mobo brand of sata and what OS you guys using? So that I can make a list of compatibility.

So doing this more worth it or getting a new 120gb hdd?

Ya but you only can get 120gb out of it due to the hdds.bin

i didn't try all my games. So after doing it again did it work?

Since you reset your cache, all the updates are gone. So you have to update again.

Sorry for the late reply. I just tested my fable 2 and forza 2 save game since both I have from my old HDD. It works fine. I think this is a random effect.

But we need more people to confirm that certain games do corrupt after transfer then only I can compile a list of game that might corrupt.

Anyway, I will include a warning in the guide. Is that ok?

i think I need a tester for those games who corrupt, recopy again see whether it works?

If you think these should be lock or deleted, then please PM the Mods

These guide doesn't void your warranty for your console which is 3 years. Unless you like " OMG, my hdd died. Maybe I'll go claim for SG. " Worth it? For and console is yes, but for a HDD? You can't even recover your save games even though you get a new 1.

Secondly, did you ever went to SG claim for 3rod warranty? I'm sure that they don't want your HDD when you claim it.

Imagine like if you had to claim 3rod for your console and give in your HDD one shot, don't you think all your hard work in the save games are worth doing it again and again and again? ( except for firearm )

Like I said, these do VOID YOUR HDD WARRANTY, NOT CONSOLE .

And whose talking about piracy anyway? Upgrading the HDD is just to take advantage of the what new NXE only is providing. Nothing more.

This post has been edited by MmxZero: Nov 24 2008, 03:48 PM

Wait let me see if the calculation is correct. Like for a 120gb if format, you would only get 106gb. So for a 20 gb, you would at least get 17.66... gb or 13.33gb? I can't remember the value for a formatted 20gb. It seem like MS took a few gb of space after formatting for their own cache.

What I suggest is 1st clear the cache and then copy out all your save data. Then format it and then see its the same value I calculated or not. If I remember clearly, after format, it should be around the value that I calculated.

Sure you got enough HDD space? Keep at least 10gb of space cause when extract out, the content decrypt and become a larger file then it's in the HDD.

Try after going down 1 subfolder, there should be 4 files. Copy each 1 of the folder out. The Folder ( if i'm not mistaken, the numbers+alphabet combination folder ) is a cache files. These usually main cause problem of problem.

Just find the folder which contain a lot of 1-6kb for each file size. These you have to select like 10-20 at a time and copy out.

Is just not messed up. It just that MS put too much of encryption on it till it hard to identify which is the real save game. It just that when it copied out, is screws up the decrypting part ( since so many files going out at 1 time )

Clearing cache means clearing the updates for each game which requires you to update to play on XBL.

Is up to you. It reduce the screw up time on transferring files. These is usually the problem causing to screw up.