Another WD1200BEVS question :(

[Solo761]

I hope this is the right subforum to post this.

Today I finally got WD1200BEVS drive, it's a 00UST0 which was reported compatible and working. Hddss.bin dumped OK, opened it with text viewer and saw fujitsu string, so it looks fine.

Then I tried to flashed it to WD drive (of course, turned the computer off, exchanged the drives, everything except this drive was disconnected from SATA bus) and got next message

http://img171.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=42573_IMG_0467_122_1134lo.JPG

I chose yes, and got message that it uploaded firmware successfully and that I should check with hddhackr -f after restart to see if it is X360 compatible. After restart (shut down the computer, waited more than 10 seconds...) I tried hddhackr -f again and got this

http://img37.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=42574_IMG_0473_122_1010lo.JPG

It says strings match, but information on sector 16 doesn't so it gives me option to flash it again. After repeated flash I get the same message again. Tried it in X360, and of course, it doesn't work.
Tried it with another SATA port on motherboard (chipset is intel P35, Gigabyte P35-DS4 motherboard), flashed it, but same thing.
Luckily flashing back to WD works fine and drive is still alive.

Did anyone had experience like this? Only thing I can think of is to try on some other motherboard.

[Arakon]

first of all, try disconnecting all other SATA drives, and also try another motherboard or sata card.
Mine is also a UST0 model and it worked fine, using an ULI chipset.

[Solo761]

Everything was disconnected except WD hard drive.

I'll try tomorrow at work. Computer there has older motherboard, I think it has 945i chipset, hopefully it will work.

[Solo761]

I tried it on another computer, this one had i955X chipset. At first hddhackr didn't see any HDD, either in enhanced mode, or legacy mode. Then I changed SATA controller setting in BIOS from native to compatibilty. Enhanced mode didn't see any HDDs but legacy mode saw it. I continued and it finished successfully. After rerun hddhackr after shutdown and it said my HDD should work fine in XBox360.

I'll see for sure when I get home from work.

One more thing I noticed, undo.bin created by this computer is not the same as undo.bin created by my computer at home . Now I'm puzzled if hddss.bin from home is right or wrong. I'll guess I'll see soon enough.

[Solo761]

Plugged it in X360, and it works. Appeared in storage menu, formatted, 107GB free space.

Now I'm ready for fall update , it's cheaper to have to exchange hard drives in casing, then having to buy new official hard drive .

Luckily it worked, I don't think I'd be able to get hddss.bin from somewhere else. I just counted spaces (I counted letters under blank area, DOS should have fixed width letters so that should work) before serial number, there's 9 spaces in upper, and 9 spaces in lower part. Maybe it has something to do with SATA settings in BIOS, now I'm sorry I didn't try to play with them a little. At work hddhackr didn't see any hard drives, so I naturally thought of BIOS settings. But I don't think I'm going to try again. It works and that's it.

Only mystery that remains is different undo.bin from home computer and work computer. Only 5 bytes are different, but they are different.

[Arakon]

did you also transfer partition 2 (cloning it, not file copy)? without it, no xbox 1 game will work, downloaded or disk.

[Solo761]

Yes, just finished. Made backup of partition 2, and extracted files from partition 3. Restored partition 2 from image, and drag/dropped files to partition 3. So far everything works fine. gamertag is OK. Tried Halo 1, works fine, so emus were also copied over.

I just had an error when I was backing up files from partition 3, something about not being able to copy some files as they were out of boundary (or something like that, it mentioned something about sectors out of boundary). These files were from Compatibility/Xbox1/TDATA/... folder, so Compatibility/Xbox1 folder has few folder, but they're empty, except one file (that error was reported on that file, st.db), but it's size is 0. I guess that where it stores Xbox1 saves, I had only one, from Halo, but I didn't play it anyway, I just tried if it works when I first got XBox360.

So, thank you for your help, and this chat , I was little disheartened yesterday. I wasn't that easy to get that WD1200BEVS drive. Here where I live about 6 stores has it in it's catalogue, but in the and only one had it really available.

[Arakon]

st.db is the xbox 1 database of ripped music cds.