You can not use another make of hard drive for this hack, it has to be one of the supported Western Digital drives. We recommend you not to buy these drives with the intention of hacking them for Xbox 360 use. Many years later in 2020 a lot of people seem to be having issues with WD500LPLX drives, these flash ok however never show up on the Xbox 360.
#XBOX 360 S HARD DRIVE INSTALL SERIES#
WD Scorpio Black Series BEKT/BJKT/BPKT/LPLX WD Scorpio Blue Series BEVS/BEVT/BPVT/LPVT/LPVX/BPVX/LPCX Hddhackr 1.40 will only work with the following Western Digital drive series: BEAS/BEVS/BEVT/BPVT/LPVT/BEKT/BJKT/BPKT/BUDT/HLFS/BLFS Ok lets get started, first you will need to buy a hard drive to use in the Xbox 360.
#XBOX 360 S HARD DRIVE INSTALL HOW TO#
If you have an Xbox 360 slim you can also hack a hard drive using this guide and connect it directly to the console, have a look at the end of the guide for information on how to connect your hacked drive to an Xbox 360 slim. I personally think hacking a 500gb drive is now best value for money. This guide will show you how I did that, its worth mentioning that you can also hack a 20gb, 60gb and 120gb, 250gb, 320gb and 500gb drives, however when creating this tutorial 250gb was the largest drive possible to hack. I think doing your own drive is the way to go as Microsoft charge £89.99 just for the 120gig drive here in the UK, at that price I could make 3x 250gig drives for the same price!
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I purchased a nice 250gb laptop hard drive for £30 and used hddhackr on it to enable the 360 to use it. Simply follow this tutorial and download the security sector that matches the size of the hard drive you wish to hack.Īfter having a 20gb drive for the last 4 years and getting annoyed about having to constantly delete stuff I did something about it.
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This tutorial focuses on hacking a 250gb drive, which was the largest drive possible in 2009 when i created this tutorial, however it is now possible to hack drives of the following sizes: 500gb, 320gb, 250gb, 120gb, 60gb and 20gb. Normally you can only use Microsoft approved hard drives which are significantly more expensive, costing up to 3x the price of a normal 2.5" SATA hard drive.
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This tutorial will teach you how to hack a standard Western Digital 2.5" Sata hard drive so it can be used by the Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 Slim.