Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 184 Location: Central Indiana
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject: Xbox 360 Hard Drive
Has anyone tried to hook up their 360 hard drive to their computer? It's only a SATA drive, and I was curious if they had and if it could be read. I was wondering because, if the 360 could read FAT32 removables, in theory couldn't you format another SATA hard drive and hook it up in the hard drive casing? Not really sure on the technical aspects on this, and really didn't see this anywhere in the forums. Here is the link to the story that got me wondering in the first place:
Unfortunately, my current board doesnt have SATA ability, but I am buying one in the near future that does, and I was just curious if that is something that I should look into.
Nathan219 360-HQ Newbie
Joined: Jan 23, 2006 Posts: 6 Location: Mishawaka, IN
Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 184 Location: Central Indiana
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:18 am Post subject:
I'm not really wanting to read the contents as much as I want to put a larger hard drive in that casing, so I don't have excess cables and what not laying around my box.
aweirdguy 360-HQ Elite Member
Joined: Aug 17, 2005 Posts: 208 Location: Minnesota
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:03 am Post subject:
ive never heard that anyone has successfully swapped in a larger drive. if i was going to try something id say try some pc drive cloning software... something that will clone a partition without caring what the data is _________________ .
ColdCzech 360-HQ Enthusiast
Joined: Sep 09, 2005 Posts: 29 Location: HIGHLAND IN
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 6:48 am Post subject:
Im sure that M-soft knew that people would try to do this and that is why even if you switched it out with a larger drive it would only be read as a portable device. They charge $100 for a 20gb hard drive and would lose mad money if people could put 200gb drives in for a similar price.
M-SOFT=Scam Artists
crash04 360-HQ Experienced
Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 184 Location: Central Indiana
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:37 pm Post subject:
You are probably right, but I think I'm gonna spend some time on that once I get my new board in, because I'm sure that I'm not the only one who would like to be able to do this. Of course, HQ will be the first place to know if I figure anything out with it.
Predtech Moderator
Joined: Mar 06, 2004 Posts: 673 Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:28 am Post subject:
You CAN swap out the HDD in the enclosure with another SATA drive. Simply connect both of the SATA drives to a pc and run Norton Ghost and do a complete copy of the original HDD onto the new larger one. Norton Ghost is a "bit by bit" program and will successfully copy everything onto the larger drive and the xbox360 will recognize the new drive just like it did the original but it will have much more space, obviously this depends on how big the new drive is.
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crash04 360-HQ Experienced
Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 184 Location: Central Indiana
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:36 am Post subject:
That is definitely good to know. I wasn't really sure but knew it was something that I definitely wanted to do if it was possible. I thank you for the information and look forward to completing this task in the near future.
Predtech Moderator
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:37 am Post subject:
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aweirdguy 360-HQ Elite Member
Joined: Aug 17, 2005 Posts: 208 Location: Minnesota
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject:
yea ghost is the type of app i meant... has anyone actually done this successfully yet?
id try it but i dont have sata on my pc or a spare drive _________________ .
crash04 360-HQ Experienced
Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 184 Location: Central Indiana
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:40 pm Post subject:
That is pretty much my current dilema. I'd love to try it to get it to work, but, my current board limits my capabilites.
Predtech Moderator
Joined: Mar 06, 2004 Posts: 673 Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:56 pm Post subject:
As far as i remember some member on here did it successfully. i'm in work right now and don't have the time to search for the post but he posted in here somewhere. If you search the forums you should find it in there somewhere.
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sjohn Moderator
Joined: Oct 16, 2004 Posts: 1454 Location: Alabama
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:38 pm Post subject:
I don't think this was ever verified, he said he was going to post back, but he never did, also the model number he gave led me to an IDE laptop hard drive, not a serial ata one. I'm going to say this was a fake. _________________
Predtech Moderator
Joined: Mar 06, 2004 Posts: 673 Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject:
No, don't say that. Now i look like a dope!!!
Lol
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crash04 360-HQ Experienced
Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 184 Location: Central Indiana
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:09 pm Post subject:
Well I'm definitely going to try to do this, may have to wait for my new board to come in though. What else I might try to do this is to use one of the SATA/EIDE adapter plugs, if they go in the manner I'm hoping. Not sure if they are effective or not, but I guess it is worth a shot.
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