Dad mucked a drive real good...

[Raycaster]

Hi Guys, stuck with a drive not showing up for an Xbox 360.

A week ago my son's xbox 360 120G hard drive started acting up so I bought another used 120G Xbox 360 drive.
The drive worked great but my son wanted the saved games from his old drive and since Xplorer360 was able to still see the files I's thought I'd
try. Well, after reading everything possible I made a newbie mistake and ended up backing up the old drive and wrote the image back to the new
drive. This was probably dumb seeing as the old drive was a WD and the used drive Fujitsu.

Well, the xbox 360 now hated the new drive (saw it but errors) so I did the geek thing and tried formating it on a PC extfat/ fat32format and
NTFS. I now have an invisible drive for the Xbox 360 as it doesn't see it anymore.

I saw the HHDHackr util and tried writing an matching 120G Fujitsu HDDSS.BIN to it but HDDHacker complained the revision was wrong but I went
ahead.

No luck.

It said it did it but gave errors. I then did the partitions options which it said completed but ended with more errors.

In the end the Xbox 360 still doesn't see it.

Do I have to search for an exact matching revision of the 120G Fujitsu or am I missing something?

Thank you for your time.
Signed "A dad getting really old quick"

[Gazcoigne]

you didnt really read that much on the topic, or else you would see the glaringly obvious mistakes you have made along the way.

first of all you should have just pulled all the folders off onto the PC instead of making an image, the image function fails miserably. then put all the folders across onto the new one. many forum posts on this and the failures it gives.

secondly by formatting the drive in a PC, you have overwritten the signed hdss.bin located at sector 16, making it into a regular hdd and not a microsoft one.

microsoft hdd use FATX formatting and AFAIK theres no utility that allows you to format a hdd to this format only the xbox can.

there is no way to recover this error you will need to purchase a western digital drive to clone, or else another second hand official drive.

hddhacker is for cloning western digital drives to be microsoft drives by writing a signed hdss.bin into sector 16.

hddhacker can only READ the hdss.bin from an official drive, it CANNOT write it to an official drive, and there are no tools available to do this.

go and buy a regular 120gb western digital drive, and use hddhacker to format it into an official drive then open the original drive in xplorer360 and pull the folders off onto a folder on your desktop, then conect the new cloned hdd and drag the folders across into it, matching the folder layouts etc.

and being a dad isnt an excuse, i have 3 children of my own to run after and i can still take the time to read up on a subject before i jump in feet first making silly assumptions without knowing the full story behind what im attempting.

the readme included with hddhacker explains its uses quite clearly its not like you had to hunt for instruction!

[peshkohacka]

You should really explain the situation better. Anyway you can use FATXplorer or HDDHackr to create the required partitions. However if you don't have a valid HDDSS @ sector 16 a retail 360 won't be able to see the drive.

[Raycaster]

Thank you for the reply.

Yes guilty as charged, should of read more. I was pretty naive about the xbox 360 hard drive information.

Just finished jtagging our other unit and made the wrong assumptions about formatting a Xbox 360 original drive.
I misunderstood the original drive was FAT32 extended, a costly mistake (among many).

Not sure if I will bother with another drive as his first original drive may have corrupt files in the first place.
Perhaps a simple $15 16G thumb drive in the future...

Anyways, thank you for the explanation and a lesson learned.

 

[Gazcoigne]

i would still try to recover the data, if its corrupted then it wont read out will error out but if its not then its worth a shot

i know my kids would be devastated to lose their lego/disney saves!!

[Raycaster]

I'm going to grab a 16G thumb drive and hopefully most of his saved games will transfer properly.
I tried the original 120G drive that was giving errors and it booted up (with no clicking) and took an update.
Will grab a thumb drive tonight for sure before the drive decides to act up again!

Have a old WD7500BPVT sitting on the shelf from a laptop... hmm.
More reading definitely!