Xbox 360 Hard Drive Help

[scrappysphinx]

Hi all, just wondering if anyone can help me?

I did something stupid earlier...

I have 2 genuine Microsoft Xbox Hard drives.

1 is a 250gb and 1 is a 320gb

I wanted to transfer all of my data from the 250gb to the 320gb so connected the 320gb via a usb cabby to the front of my xbox and went to System Settings->Storage.

The drive was detected but said it needed to be configured for the xbox so i let it do it. Now it shows up as a 16Gb USB Hard Drive. I then went to install the drive internally to check it was working before moving any data and it is not recognised by the console, it says no storage devices detected.

I have done some google'ing and someone suggested its because the hddss.bin and partitions have been removed and i would need to use hddhackr to repartition and inject hddss.bin back into the drive. However the drive is a Hitachi and hddhackr only supports Western Digital drives.

Does anyone know of a way i can restore the drive to a full 320gb internal drive?

I am currently trying to make a backup of my 250gb drive using xplorer360 and will then try and restore that backup to the 320gb in the hope that it will at least detect the 250gb worth of space and be useable in some capacity or should i accept it was stupid on my part and concede that its just not going to be an internal drive again?

Thanks for any info anyone can provide.

 

[keropi]

I don't know a good solution but I do know your mistake: there is also a DVD DISK that comes with the usb adaptor , you connect the drive, boot the DVD and it loads the file/settings/content transfer wizard... maybe if you get that DVD and gave that a try?
Also you can't even format the HDD (on the 360) that was destroyed? there is no format option whatsoever?

 

[scrappysphinx]

No there is no format option because it doesn't detect the drive
Also i didn't use the offical xbox transfer cable as these are slim hard drives and i don't believe there is a transfer cable for the slims?
All i did was connect the sata drive to a usb caddy and connect it to the console.
As i said i will try restoring the 250gb to the 320gb in the hope it will recognise something but that's going to take a while because as i understand xplorer360 makes a full 250gb backup.

 

[keropi]

I see... well I'm all out of ideas I hope you get it sorted soon my friend

 

[scrappysphinx]

Not to worry, if i've killed it as an internal drive then so be it, i'll use it as a pc drive.
I just find it slightly annoying that considering i could hack 2 or 3 unnofficial drives for the price of one these things they can be killed so easily.

 

[DoenerBarney]

Hi there,
when you used the USB Cable with the XBOX , your BOX thought this is an external HDD which can only be used up to 16 GB .
All you have now is a 250 GB HDD with an 16 GB Partition usabel for the XBOX.

Maybe you could connect the drive to your PC and use a recovery tool to get the formatted 16 GB back, bu i´m not sure if the xbox can read them after that.

Then there ist a tool called "Xecuter X360USB PRO V2" , price is around 50 pounds, after reading the description, this maybe could help.


At least, all forums i read through say the drive is trashed and can be used as a 250 GB Drive for your pc

If the recovery tools will not help, all your savegames are gone , if you not have saved them in the cloud.
All your purchased DLC and games can be reloaded on the new Hard drive via XBOX lIve or XBOX.com

 

[scrappysphinx]

Hi DoenerBarney, to be honest i'm not worried about loss of data as there was no data on the drive. I was hoping to transfer my stuff from the 250gb (still working) to the bigger 320gb (now broken). I found a tool last night called fatxplorer which has formatting/partitions of hard drives into xbox format and inserting security sectors but it still didn't work.

I accepted that the drive is no longer an xbox drive and will use it as a pc/laptop drive instead.

 

[DoenerBarney]

A sorry , reading helps.
I´ve read it the other way round,250 GB formatted, 320 GB still working.
Then the Xecuter Thing is of no worth, you get a new Hard drive for that Price

Then the only thing i could think of, is trying to get a new HDD from Microsoft, when callings the support, if you still have warranty and tell them that you formatted the Drive while using the official Transfer kit.

 

[slk486]

Since you can use any hdd in a jtag'd box, maybe it could be formatted or set up in one?

 

[scrappysphinx]

I think my biggest problem is that it's a Hitachi drive so I can't find the correct security sector. All of the 320gb security sectors I've tracked down belong to western digital drives

 

[slk486]

Ok. Not that I know that much about it, but the HDD in my jtag was not prepped beforehand in any way.

 

[scrappysphinx]

If i had a JTAG or RGH xbox, i'd definately try it slk, but my consoles are all genuine
I'll just order a new drive and keep this one as a pc/laptop drive.

 

[slk486]

If i had a JTAG or RGH xbox, i'd definately try it slk, but my consoles are all genuine
I'll just order a new drive and keep this one as a pc/laptop drive.

Fair enough, I was just thinking a nearer jtag ownee might give it a shot. I'm a bit too far away

 

[AmiNeo]

USB devices on XBox 360 are limited to 16GB in size. What its likely done is the equivalent of either a dynamic disk resize or reformatted it at 16Gb. Either way I dont think it's recoverable.

 

[keropi]

Since you can use any hdd in a jtag'd box, maybe it could be formatted or set up in one?

nope my friend, that won't work... jtag/rgh machines have a patched OS and don't care about security sectors, sizes or even makers of HDDs... if you formatted the disk on a jtag then 99% the retail machine won't recognize it... haven't tested it personally but since a jtag won't insert any kind of special sectors on the HDD then it won't work...