My friend recently purchased a Xbox 360s, with the 4gb memory. I had it in my mind that I could just give them one of my old laptop harddrives and install it. Oh how I was wrong. It turns out that you can use only the harddrives that come with xboxs or MS xbox harddrives. Is there a hack around this?
No. Tell them to return it and build the November $350 build from TekSyndicate.
............. USB flash drives
You can use a USB drive up to 32GB, also if you have a WD HD then you can hack it to work in the Xbox.
To use a WD HD you need to get a security sector from an official HD, you can use a 20GB, 60GB, 120GB, 250GB, or 320GB drive. You need to create a DOS bootable USB drive and use a program called hddhackr, hddhackr will modify the drives firmware and install the security sector onto the drive and format it. Once you get that done just plug it into your Xbox and play.
Keep in mind the emulator to play original Xbox games in is installed on the HD and by hacking a WD drive like I talked about you will not have the emulator and cannot play original Xbox games.
At first when you said 4 gigs of memory I went to got check the specs of the new xbox but then I realized you meant storage...
Doing the conversion is easy peasy to be quite honest, did it for several drives in the past. As already mentioned, you need a bin file from an official drive, which I won't say where to get, but you can find them easy enough. Second step is a DOS bootable thumb drive, with the proper flashing software, and the proper bin file. That's all there is to it.
SO the only way really is to hack an WD HD?
Yep, if you don't feel like getting an official drive, that's the only way.
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http://digiex.net/guides-reviews/console-guides/xbox-360-guides/3152-how-hack-250gb-320gb-sata-drive-work-xbox-360-xbox-360-slim.html
So, you could use a Velociraptor? Cause that'd be an amazing upgrade.
Or
I think the Xbox SATA controller is 1.5Gbps so I do not think there would be much improvement from faster HDs but the VR is on the list of drives that can be hacked, never tried myself, never even been in the same room as a VR
I got the 4gb one too. What I did was I took an old xbox 20gb hard drive, took it apart (since its just a 2.5 inch drive in a case) and got a hard drive case for the new model xbox on ebay for like $5. Thats probably one of the cheapest and hassle free ways to get some more storage, if you have a space drive laying around.
WAIT COULD I USE MY WD SCORPIO BLUE I'VE HAD LAYING AROUND? omg if so yes yes yes.
I can't see the list because barracuda but if so I'd poop a little so make it so.
scorpio blue works fine, that's the one I always use
What do I have to do to it, I can't see like any links and only have a laptop to use.
you can use certain laptop wd hdds that are slightly modified, i had one for the xbox 360 slim that was 7200 rpm even though xbox 360 hds are 5400 rpm.. requires a sort of flash key copy hack from a valid hdd to the unsigned hdd. http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox360-tools/HDDHackr.php .. i reccomend sticking to 5400 rpm hdds cause the 7200 rpm generate more heat. i switched back to the 5400s because while the 7200 was faster it would freeze my 360 after an hour or so in some extreme games.
Buy xbox hd case, buy scorpio black/blue, format scorpio according to what the internet sais, have cheap HD :)
Then this is not a world worth living in.