360 HDD upgrade

[b0redom]

Hi All,
Does anyone know if this is possible? It seems that inside the caddy is a 2.5" HDD. Presumably it would be possible to drop in a 200GB drive, use DD to clone the partition table, and then something like partition magic to grow whichever one contains savegames and downloaded content?

I've had a search around, but no one seems to have done this yet.....

[b0redom]

.....and the reason is that there's a signed security sector which identifies the drive as either 20GB or 120GB - I'm not going to link to the article which details it, as it has some content of slightly dubious legality. Looks like it's not possible though.

[Skinleech]

It's totally possible mate, I have done it. But you need a Western Digital BEVS series drive. Any other laptop drive not work. You also need an image for the hard drive you want to use - a 120gb or a 20gb. If you put a 200gb drive in the max you could get was 120gb.

Look around for Hddhacker by The Specialist. I don't think I could discuss the steps required here.
To be honest though, you can get the 120gb drives on Ebay new for ~£60 (from China I think) which would be far less hassle.

[dontasciime]

It's totally possible mate, I have done it. But you need a Western Digital BEVS series drive. Any other laptop drive not work. You also need an image for the hard drive you want to use - a 120gb or a 20gb. If you put a 200gb drive in the max you could get was 120gb.

Look around for Hddhacker by The Specialist. I don't think I could discuss the steps required here.
To be honest though, you can get the 120gb drives on Ebay new for ~£60 (from China I think) which would be far less hassle.

Exactly why go to the hassle even UK 360/120 gig hard drives are around £79 and use cashback site if possible.

[b0redom]

Just interested if it was technically possible. Given that there are rumors that the new 360s will allow installs to hard disks, one bigger than 20GB would be kind of useful....

[dontasciime]

Just interested if it was technically possible. Given that there are rumors that the new 360s will allow installs to hard disks, one bigger than 20GB would be kind of useful....

60 gig xbox 360 is out tomorrow i think

[jimborae]

Exactly why go to the hassle even UK 360/120 gig hard drives are around £79 and use cashback site if possible.

Because I have the appropriate 120gig hard drive lying around and I can think of better uses of £80 than giving it to Microsoft.

[dontasciime]

Because I have the appropriate 120gig hard drive lying around and I can think of better uses of £80 than giving it to Microsoft.

lol and how much have those wd drives gone up since its become known what you can do to them or can you even still get em ?]


Although saying that it will be cheaper if the drives are still readily available especially with a newer release of HDDHackr adding support for all wd bevs

Another edit yeah at £31 for 120gb wd hd saving 40 quid is still a good idea if you can be bothered to get your your sata controller to work to extract hddss. Still your right though.