How to Upgrade Your Retail Xbox 360 Hard Drive! [Full HDDHackr Tutorial]
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If you are having an error pop up when using the bootable usb drive creator that says the drive is write protected, I found a way to fix it. First press the windows key then R. After that type "diskpart" then press enter. Once you are in diskpart type "list disk". Find your usb drive, then type "select disk n" (n is the number that your usb drive is). After that type clean, and once it has finished type "exit" and that should fix it. Hope this helps!
Good work..... was trying a different cmd for ages. Your suggestion worked
thanks
Thanks a ton! Thought it was just the drive I chose.
Thank You!
you have just saved me hours of pain from this thank you 10/10
Thank to you I was able to change my HDD since it failed me. I couldn't do that without your vid, thank you again !
For anyone have trouble with device media write protection on USB around 6:00 when trying to format with ms dos folder.
Run CMD as admin
Step: 1 - Type in "diskpart"
Step: 2 - Type in "list disk"
find your disk if you have multiple hard drives & your usb as well because on what you have plugged when formatting any storages.
for my drive i had to select disk 4 since i had multiple drives plugged in.
Step: 3 - Then type your drive "select 4"
Step: 4 - Type in "clean"
Final Step: Type in "convert mbr"
Then you should finally be able to bypass that device media write protection. Hope this solves anyone issue still in 2023
Thanks a lot for the tutorial. I am a little behind in the scene but just broke out my 360 after a few years of storage. I just so happen to have had a 320 drive laying around and it all went smooth. Luckily I still have a xp machine just got xbox 360 modding and was able to dump my own partition 2, tested with Panzer Dragoon Orta and it all booted up like a dream. The speeds for loading are much better than the stock 120 HD.
HOLY SHIT IT WORKED, due keep in mind it didn't work at first, I had to do some stuff in the bios:
First I changed my SATA mode to IDE from AHCI in the bios, then after it not working again, I tried changing the slot in which the Hdd was plugged in from a slave to a master slot, while keeping the IDE setting, this go it to work. It your having trouble just keep trying.
I a have WD hdd, Scorpio I think.
HUGE THANKS!
Honestly, huge thanks man this was really helpful !! I did not think it would work at first but it worked really well .
Still works in 2022. Thanks a lot for the video!
Awesome video and tutorial, sadly my hard drive was too old to use this on. I will definitely be trying it with a newer one at some point. Thanks. :)
I like your beginning, breaking bad :D
I’ve basically revived 4 Xbox 360s from thrift stores using this tutorial
Thank you so much!
Only thing I’m gonna say is that my usb drive only let me format to fat32 and I had to change the pc bios settings from ahci to IDE but it worked flawlessly.
Bro can u explain what he did
Or what's the point from this
How do I find that option in Bios? Change from achi to ide im on aorus motherboard
@@HistoryandReviews you probably don't have that option. On most modern-ish motherboards, IDE mode isn't supported. Confirmed not supported on Ryzen 7000, or Intel 8th gen or newer. (Personal experience, your mileage may vary.)
I was having a huge issue getting hddhackr and Xplorer360 to run, but thankfully I had an older laptop lying around that supported the entire process
I buyed a generic HDD but it was really fucking slow, and didn't want to save Halo Reach or GTA5 stuff in it, so i formatted it and follow the steps from scratch and now it works like a charm, thanks dude!
Confirmed this is still working in 2019. Used an old WD Blue 500GB I had laying around. WD only tho, tried a Toshiba and Samsung SSD to no avail. Thanks Mr. Mario, liked and subscribed!!!
Damn, I was just preparing an old Toshiba hd for that task...
Links to the HDDS folder
SSDs don't work on the 360
That answers my question. Thanks.
@@MageLeaderInc They will if it's RGH'd.
You guides helps me a lot, if i can i always mod my consoles from your tutorials. Here, everything went flawlessly except hddhackr. My new desktop not supporting only AHCI mode, my older laptop is the same. I have bunch of old computers at my storage, hooked up 3 of them, every time HDDHACKR freezed. Redownloaded from another place and still the same and i installed a new psu on a 2004 HP desktop what i found on the streets :D Bios error, not starting boot menu and lots of error, after trying 20 times it finally came up and hddhackr started.... god i was happy AF. After this everything worked, Xplorer360 also worked on my new desktop using Win7 compatibility. :) Thank you.
The streets made it.
Still good for 2021 as well. Found myself a 4GB Slim and had to build a new hdd for it. Now have everything working fine except the signal strength but that is for another day.
Hello I know you made this video back in 2015 but I just want to say thank you. I bought a use xbox360 and it had no hard drive. It does now!!! Thank you again.
Glad it helps!
Same 😂
Thanks! I upgraded from 20GB to 320GB
Hi!
Im getting an error that says "Failed to format" when I try to create bootable usb flash drive.
Followed this guide with great success. Thanks!
I am having a problem !!! ...
When I put the Hard Drive in the xbox after doing all these steps it said unformatted !
so if i want to put a ssd in my xbox e , any help , has some one done this ?
hey Mr. Mario! thanks for your wonderful guides... they're just perfect! I need some help though, would it be possible to do this on a laptop without having to replace my laptop hdd with the one I wanna run hddhackr i.e. via usb... when I run hddhackr, I get only a msg saying no ata devices blah blah... any help pls?
Hey can I follow the same procedure for a 128gb western digital SSD?
Hey Mario, after following your video step by step I've run into an issue where I connect the prepared WD Blue 500 GB HDD back to the HDD caddy temporarily and plug it into the 360 to format it, well after trying to formatting it it still says unformatted and that kind of left me confused 😕
Would you have any other solutions or suggestions to fixing this problem?
Thanks in advance 😁👍
I think it might have to do with my computer having only ATA mode and AHCI mode maybe 😕
However switching to ATA mode allowed me to take the necessary steps with HDDhackr so I'm not entirely sure what's going on with the formatting part...
I ripped a WD AV-25 320GB WD3200BUCT out of my old YouView Box instead of a WD3200BUDT from the list of compatible drives. Also works! My old 360 is now revived! RECYCLING RULES! Thanks!
done this 2 years ago.. now i had to do it again. you have to set the storage options in bios to IDE MODE. in ahchi mod hdd hackr can not recognize the hard drive.
Looking to do this as I'm running out of space on my drive. Has anyone tried to do this with an SSD? Or does it have to be an HDD?
Also, trying to follow your ending steps, does that copy over all the information over from your original Xbox HDD to the new one? So all downloaded content, saved games, etc. will be there?
Hey bro, I've seen that there is a difference between internal and external hdd for some games and dlcs for the Xbox 360 and for internals you need a specific type of drive. Is this necessary now or can I use any hdd to make it internal?
No ATA devices!!!
My mobo doesn't have support for IDE since it's a Z170. I have 1 laptop with legacy option, but when I press enter after writing hddhackr.exe in DOS it doesn't do anything and then I can't write anymore.
Is there any possible way to do it without hddhackr? Will there be an update of hddhackr for newer system? Am I doomed?
(I am so pissed that I wasted my day trying to get this to work.)
I was finally able to get around on doing this!
I ordered a WD5000LPLX from NEWEGG.
The manufacturing date of the drive is March 24 2015.
Followed the tutorial and the drive worked like a charm!
The speedy WD Black Drive is now inside an Original (Non-Slim) XBOX 360 HDD caddy I got off ebay for cheap.
Two noteworthy things:
1) When flashing the bootable USB drive, I had to flash it with FAT32 instead of FAT because FAT was not an option.
2) When booting from the flash drive, I had to plug it into a USB 2.0 slot. For some reason my motherboard would not recognize the bootable drive from one of it's USB 3.0 slots. This probably has something to do with the "Windows Millennium" prompt.
I had originally ordered a WD Velociraptor drive but then I saw that you needed a giant heat sink for it so I decided to go with the WD Black drive. I would have preferred installing a SSD like I did with my PS3 but I don't think flashing the firmware of a SSD with that of a HDD would be a good idea.
SSDs won't work in the 360 also the velociraptors require 12vdc so you would need to do some hardware moding to get it to work.
Is this the most current one for non modded 360s?
I encounter minor issue like the usb was writing protection, but i was able to remove it with diskpart, but everything else worked perfectly. Thank you!!!
how u do it?
i removed it with diskpart and it still didn't work
HI, some questions here... hope you can help.
1.- The USB boot creator tool does not format the USB as FAT only FAT32 (My USB stick is 8GB - > might be the reason) try to format it using windows but no luck either.
2.- when I finally decided to leave the USB stick as FAT32 and then copied the HDDHACKR and HDDSS.BIN to flash the disk I got an error (when trying to flash) that the files are corrutpt. some checksum or MD5 errors.
Doing it on a borrowed laptop so I have to switch disks back and forth.. Tedious...
Are there any tools for Linus I can Use?
Any advise?
Upgraded a Jasper unit by taking a broken 20GB HDD out of the stock enclosure. Used a 500GB WD Black drive I had laying around. Speed difference is absolutely night and day when it comes to loading. Games seem to run smoother and have less stutters now as well, I imagine it is because the console isn't waiting on the HDD? Awesome tutorial!
The stock 20 GB HDD is not good.
@@MrMario2011 oh yeah it is terrible. I knew it was slow but I didn't think it would slow down games that loaded mostly from the DVD like that. It's wild.
when i create bootable it say usb drive write protected
Tried it, the Xbox still doesn't acknowledge the drive so I can format it.
Maybe I missed something but it would have been a nice warning to tell me my PC has to be IDE SATA mode before I took my PC apart...
Any chances this could work on an ssd? It is a WD Blue 500 GB. I'm getting the message, " Western Digital Vendor Intro failed on port 0x40D0. Make sure you have connected Western Digital Scorpio series Hard Drive. If you choose to resend the the command to should turn the drive off and on after you pressed "Yes". Do you want to resend the command until the drive responds?"
What does this mean?
Is there a way to do it with new laptops that run with SSD I dont have any old 2000’s computers?
Would this work with a WD SSD?
What can be done if HDDhacker doesn't detect the drive once booted?
Works great. Done this once already with a seagate drive. bout to do it again to upgrade another 360.
This isn't for Seagate drives, though? This is dependent on Western Digital vendor mode.
@@MrMario2011 🤔
Was your old laptop a HP DV6 series?
Hello , I just got a WD black series HDD (500GB - 7200RPM) and I'm trying to do this... just got a question though. So before putting the new Hdd in the computer , do we have to change any bios setting ? and thanks in advance.
Hi I have bad command or file name when I put hddhackr.exe in laptop
Hello, sorry to bother you, I followed your steps but I came across a problem, after setting up the boot drive and hard drive I go to turn on my computer and it doesn't recognize my bootable flashdrive "no device to boot to" so what do I do about that?
Ran into drive write protected. was pulling my hair out but it wasn't the thumb drive. make sure to go into usb drive boot folder, right click, go down to properties and uncheck rad only if it is checked. Worked great for me!
everytime i do this it just goes back to read-only (the box won't stay unticked) any help?
To download the files, you need open the link in the description, and must be right clicking to the green link, and "save target as", because other ways do not work.
i got an seagate 320gb from an xbox 360 s that i format and use for my pc how can i use it again in my xbox
Is there any update in 2020 as far as the hard drive size is concerned like 1tb or something? thanks!
i know you commented a year ago, but just to inform you;; Stock Xbox 360 only goes up to 500gb. if you want 1tb or max 2tb you will have to mod your xbox VIA JTAG or using RGH to achieve this. if you really dont care about the 360 and want to use it for homebrew or emulation or to copy games from the internet so you can play on it, go right ahead. but if you're still connecting it to the internet and logging on xbox live and playing multiplayer, don't ever do that. once you mod the console, it's against Microsofts TOS and your console will be banned if you're ever caught.
@@EFAmateurProductions sorry for Necro, but if we do this tutorial on a legit E model will it get banned from live?
Question: do I HAVE to use a Western Digital drive? Because I have a Toshiba drive that I ripped out of my old laptop.
Western Digital because it utilized vendor mode to flash.
+MrMario2011 do what can we do if we are not using WD? I got a HDD from a flea market...I have tested it and it works great and I also formatted it. Do you have links to where I can get the iso or whatever to put on this for the xbox 360?
+fireclaw316 XD yah did the same nice
Does this work without a JTAG or Jailbroken Xbox 360?
Also I have an advanced format Western Digital WD5000BPVT 500GB. Will this also work?
i have hdd wd scorpion blue bevt 160gb.....will it work?
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Thank You!! Worked perfect!!
sir i got a question though, what if I just use a USB SATA cable and plug the HDD that I wan't to use for my xbox? will it do any difference? I can't seem to open my laptop since the keypads and everything needs to be removed for me to be able to detach my HDD on the laptop i'm using.
Is it possible to restore the original partitions and files to a genuine xbox 360 320gb drive that someone reformatted. Now it will only show up on the 360 when connected to usb.
8:20 if you get a message saying "No ATA devices detected", reboot into BIOS and set the SATA controller to IDE mode. It won't work if it's configured as AHCI.
For those of you with the No ATA Drive error. Switch you bios to IDE mode
thank you! I got stuck on this and switching worked 👍! I'm not too familiar with using this, but figured out switching from ahci to ata was ide mode.
thank you 🤛
I'm trying to squeeze as much performance out of my XBOX 360. I did some tests with some USB 2.0 & 3.0 flash drives and I found that the 500gb HDD that comes with the newer models performs better than the flash drives. I don't think a USB SSD will perform much better so I'm thinking of getting a Western Digital Black Series. Do you know if the firmware is compatible with WD Black drives?
It flashes via WD vendor mode so all WD drives should be compatible.
Would you mind redoing this video now in 2022 with links in the description to safe downloads. Please and thank-you
This work with SSD?
so do h
you have to use hddhackr to actually be able to download games on to the drive? if so then what is the purpose of using this, and having that much memory if you can't download games on it?
I think this might be obsolete. In my tinkering with the newer 360 dashboard it will allow you to use any usb flash drive or hard drive that it approves. It will also provision(make a 360 drive) and format it for you if you want to install games. I do like I can co mingle non xbox data on the same drive as long as I don't choose to provision it(make a 360 drive). I don't see any need to use any hacker software to do that. It is just to bad the dashboard can't provision a dvdrom replacement on its own. I have yet to try that with the made for xbox drives rather they were issued with one or not.
Can you confirm that you can replace the internal hard drive directly without hddhckr?
@@azure8285 If you have a xbox 360 with built in flash memory as a system drive that still has the factory xbox data you can use any hardrive or a ssd to install games and data. If by chance the built in flash got formatted then you will have to make a system drive. The pre slim xbox 360 can have a bit more of a cow if you try to use a drive that doesn't have the xbox ID that Microsoft put on them. I have made usb system drives and installed games on them that are tied to the device they were installed on. It is actually quite fast.
When I do the bootable usb part it keeps repeating the letters when I try type hddhackr
I did this to my 750gb wd drive but i lost the original ss is there a way to reverse this back to normal without it?
Will this guide work with a random SSD? I have some SSDs laying around and i'm interested in doing this mod to them
Thank you, man! Worked perfectly for me. :)
Great to hear!
@@MrMario2011 hii i just want to know what can i do with this
@@MrMario2011 hello Dear Mario. When î type into the BIOS command hddhackr. exe I get error NO ATA devices present! Written in red. What to do?
+MrMario2011 Can i Use an external WD Hard Drive For This?
Will it work with a samsung ssd or only wd?
WD
how to you transfer saved game files would you just back up one of the other partitions
where is the security sector folder in you zip ? containing the hdds folder ?
I tried doing the bootable drive usb creator tool using three different flash drives and I always have the same result. It always tells me, "failed to make the DOS-bootable. I am trying to put it in the DOS folder in the flash drive as well. Please help.
i got the flash drive formatted and have the hddhacker thing on flash now. but theres no hddsss.bin in all of that that i downloaded from link about to put in flash drive. where do i go to get it? i need one for a 120gig drive
hi man thanks for the tutorial , i have a question , im triyin this on a WD caviar blue 3200aajs or sj will it work?
Thanks i GOT an Xbox 360 pro from sweeden for just 10$ and now i upgraded the 20 GB to 250 GB thanks to You .ps ny chipset Dident work but i just found the oldest desktop computer I cud find and then it worked.Plus I got patrion 2 from the old storage device
Works like a charm as of June 3rd 2023, I used a 250GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD2500BEVT (for the love of god people, this tutorial only works on WESTERN DIGITAL disk drives, you can search what models are compatible on google it’s easy) I happened to have lying around thankfully as I bought an Xbox 360 E with no HDD (I was using the 20GB from my fat Xbox and I couldn’t instal one game lol), I’d like to point out you can use FAT32 specially since that’s really the only options I could get with a 16GB pen drive it will still work, also if it gives a write protection error go to disk management find the USB drive and delete the volume and just make the bootable USB. And if people can’t find the ATA drives make sure to go to the bios and change to IDE only, and plug in sata data 1 2 3 or 4, after these it won’t show up if you have a lot of sata slots on your motherboard and use lots of drives like me lol. Just thought I should drop these tips. Thank you once again Mr. Mario even your almost decade year old videos are super helpful!
Good tips! Also great mention of only working on WESTERN DIGITAL drives 😂
wrong,my hdd for 360 bought way back online is seagate ST9320325AS and it works 😊
So I have a question. What if I only want the partitions? 1,2,3?
Finally I got it working with my WD Scorpio blue, if your PC won't boot into dos just try to override it in the bios, and if you get " no ata device " just change the sata mode in the bios to ide.
How do you change data mode into ide?
@@Chessy1236 in the bios setting of the motherboard, if you have new pc then you cant, you need old pc.
Drive works perfect, but is it supposed to be a few gigabytes off? Mine is 120 gb but only about 100 gb is available. It looks like you experience the same symptom with yours being 500 gb but only 460 gb usable. Just making sure I didn't flash it incorrectly.
Sounds about right.
Hey, could anyone give any opinions on the Scorpio series of WD drives? I wanna know which lasts... I mean endures better. WD Scorpio Blue 5400rpm 8MB cache or Scorpio Black 7200rpm 16MB cache. What even are the specs on the stock 360 drives anyways? Heat, power, and... Well my stock drive is at least 5 years or older and still functional. It's always been slow/crummy for most of it's life. Heck Halo Reach occasionally freezes exiting a menu and then un-freezes by the time I load into a score attack I didn't choose.
Did you tried the Black one by any chance?
A stock 360 hdd will always be a 5400rpm pos...
Can I use a Windows USB hard drive for this instead of a Western Digital drive?
You could have mentioned that hddhackr is only compatible with WD drives, instead of saying it's what you recommend. A few other drives might work, but from what I found online on different sites it was designed for WD and doesn't work at all with any Hitachi drives.
I tell you that you need a Western Digital hard drive within the first 2 minutes of the tutorial, at 1:48. Not a recommendation, a need.
Frank did it work anyway ?
Yeah, but you say you need WD because it's of higher quality, not because the procedure won't work otherwise. To me it sounded more like a recommendation. I upgraded my laptops to SSD and so was looking for some way to utilize the old HDD's and a little project to do on a Saturday morning. Also some steps were missing for me. Before formatting the usb flash I had to set my registry to disable write protection (only this formatting tool had a problem), and mainly, before booting from the flash it's necessary to go to bios and change AHCI to IDE, otherwise hddhackr doesn't work. But thanks for the guide nonetheless.
Angels: it didn't work with the old one I had lying around, but in the end I just bought a new WD drive 500 gb scorpio black and the speed difference is really noticeable. I also cleaned out my old 360 phat version (first time in the 10 years I've had it) and it's better than new. I'm really impressed.
@@HomestarCrawler yeah it could have been clearer, he never actually said that you need a wd drive, just that they are better
Dude, you are the Fucking Man! You just saved me $40 bucks! Thanks for Being Awesome! Pls Continue Xbox 360 Vids, your the ONLY Trustworthy, Knowledgeable, guy on here who actually knows what hes talking about. You are literally the CZcams XBOX 360 Guy!
when i type in hddss.bin ,it says not found im running 8.1 windows ,i renamed it as said in video..
I want to do this so badly! I only have a 64bit version of Windows 10 to work with, and I'm having trouble finding ways to use MS-DOS to use hddhackr. I have bootable USB and HDDSS ready, but I'm stuck....any help or resources would be much appreciated from anyone.
Hey Mario. When you copy the partition 2 contents from your original hdd, is that when your profile, games, and other files are transferred? Or is that another step?
Your game data is another step.
Will this method work on my 160GB Sea Gate laptop hard drive? Thank you
Story time
I went to GameStop to get a replacement HHD a few months ago so I can play some original XBOX games. I didn't have a chance to play anything until a few days ago and little that I know it wasn't a certified Microsoft HDD but some off brand knockoff drive. I called them and ask for a refund and guess what... they won't give me my money back. Not only I got a non Microsoft HHD but also it wasn't backwards compatible. -Nice one GS- So, now I'm going to try this and see if I can get this drive to play OG XBOX games. Wish me luck.
Aren't they supposed to exchange no questions asked within 7 days with a receipt? I'd complain to corporate if that was the case and they refused.
Hello! so there is no way to play classic xbox doing this tutorial?
Mario, I can flash an wd hdd 1tb with the 500gb bin file? I have only this disk of 1terabyte, I don't found the bin file for 1 Tera...
Hi, I did all of this and the hard drive looks right, but when I plug it into the XBOX with the caddy it doesn't see it. It does VIA USB though. Any thoughts?
Hey, 4 years later I'm having this exact issue. Did you ever sort it out?
I am stuck at boot logo. What should I do? (I did everything right with hddhackr and flash was successful)
Ha i know RJ too ! He as cool guy did a bit of work to his Mercury cougar in ABQ .
I get "reboot and select proper boot device" or "insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key. And I did everything you said in the video.
I am stuck at the point where I am on booted MSDos and written the command hddhackr.exe and entered. Stuck there and it's not showing any result, just blinking....
Sorry to dig up an oldish video, but how would one go about reverting this hard drive to be useable in a PC again after it's no longer needed? I have a 500gb HDD that was flashed to a 320gb before the 500 was available. Do I just do this same method but with the 500gb sector and then format on the PC?
Yep, that's also why there's the backup step, so you can reflash the original security sector to it.
Okay someone explain to me why my 2021 built computer was able to get the program to boot all the way to “No ATA” screen mean while a computer from 2006/2007 that actually has an IDE sata mode option cant even boot to the DOS screen.
So Im stuck between a newer computer being able to get to no ATA screen and not being able to get farther vs an old pc that cant even boot to USB
I cant win at all. All these hdd just sitting here unable to get to the final step
Hey, Mario! Are there any quicker methods today to create a new hdd for the xbox 360? I see that there are some tutorials which use cloning programs to clone the old hdd to a new one, will that work?
Those are for hardmodded consoles, which you can just drop in and format a drive. You still need this process on a stock console.
Dos all the process all the way to format it on the Xbox Anda after that my computer does not detect the drive
Need help i get a write protection violation attempted after i try and flash the hddss.bin file in hddhackr.exe how do i fix this ????
doing this on a xp box, bear with me, its old so im using an old tower and the only working copy of xp i could find not to mention, the only tower i have, it is not win7 compatible, its missing the search function, so i can not type in hddss in my explorer bar, any ideas?
to find the all elusive file mentioned @ 6:48