Hello all,

i have aquired a 60gb original 360 hdd which when plugged into a console spins but wont show.
i can see it in explorer360 all 3 partitions but when in the console i get no storage devices detected.
i have tried the drive in another housing so i know it isnt the housing but the drive spins and shows in xplorer360.
any idea's would be gratefully received.

thanks

See if THIS helps.

Originally posted by young_one:

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See if THIS helps.

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this only works IF you have YOUR hdds.bin. if you do not have it, it won't work. and no, hdds.bin is specific for your drive, and no, one you download from the internet won't work. and no, hddhacker doesn't do you any good either.

BUT; check if your hdd has some slow reading (=bad) sectors! if so, it will not format in your 360. mine hdd show some slow reading sectors, so it is recognized by pc etc. but my xbox will not let me format it. even after an attempt of drive regeneration. so run mhdd or hddregenerator and look if it reads all sectors fine.

Originally posted by Modking30:

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Originally posted by dennisv9:

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Originally posted by young_one:

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See if THIS helps.

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this only works IF you have YOUR hdds.bin. if you do not have it, it won't work. and no, hdds.bin is specific for your drive, and no, one you download from the internet won't work. and no, hddhacker doesn't do you any good either.

BUT; check if your hdd has some slow reading (=bad) sectors! if so, it will not format in your 360. mine hdd show some slow reading sectors, so it is recognized by pc etc. but my xbox will not let me format it. even after an attempt of drive regeneration. so run mhdd or hddregenerator and look if it reads all sectors fine.

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Wow, this is all BS and wrong information. The bin files are not specific to the drive. This is not a damn DVD drive. Just backup the data, download the 60G hdds.bin file and flash with HDhacker. I've done tons of drives. Don't list to Deniss who is obvisouly a noob and doesn't know what he is talking about.


He could be right about it being a bad drive, but that's it ;)

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the hdds.bin is linked to the drive serial number (in the fw). they need to match up, so they are all unique. they cannot be altered, since you cannot write new firmware to an original ms drive. the only way to do this, is with some WD drives with hddhackr. hddhacker doesn't work with MS drives, so no help there.
(http://www.xboxhacker.org/index.php?topic=12062.35;wap2)

you guys don't have to believe me, just erase your sector 16 on your ms hdd without your own hdds.bin backup. and then see if you get it working back again.

double post??!!

Originally posted by Modking30:

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Originally posted by dennisv9:

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Originally posted by young_one:

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See if THIS helps.

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this only works IF you have YOUR hdds.bin. if you do not have it, it won't work. and no, hdds.bin is specific for your drive, and no, one you download from the internet won't work. and no, hddhacker doesn't do you any good either.

BUT; check if your hdd has some slow reading (=bad) sectors! if so, it will not format in your 360. mine hdd show some slow reading sectors, so it is recognized by pc etc. but my xbox will not let me format it. even after an attempt of drive regeneration. so run mhdd or hddregenerator and look if it reads all sectors fine.

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Wow, this is all BS and wrong information. The bin files are not specific to the drive. This is not a damn DVD drive. Just backup the data, download the 60G hdds.bin file and flash with HDhacker. I've done tons of drives. Don't list to Deniss who is obvisouly a noob and doesn't know what he is talking about.


He could be right about it being a bad drive, but that's it ;)

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@Modking30, dennisv9 is absolutely right. With each 'official' hdd sold by Microsoft, the serial has to match the information that's in the HDDS.bin
Hddhackr only works with WD drives which you already know. There is at this moment no support for non WD drives so you can't use the HDDS.bin from another drive on a stock MS drive.

Originally posted by young_one:

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Originally posted by Modking30:

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Originally posted by dennisv9:

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Originally posted by young_one:

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See if THIS helps.

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this only works IF you have YOUR hdds.bin. if you do not have it, it won't work. and no, hdds.bin is specific for your drive, and no, one you download from the internet won't work. and no, hddhacker doesn't do you any good either.

BUT; check if your hdd has some slow reading (=bad) sectors! if so, it will not format in your 360. mine hdd show some slow reading sectors, so it is recognized by pc etc. but my xbox will not let me format it. even after an attempt of drive regeneration. so run mhdd or hddregenerator and look if it reads all sectors fine.

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Wow, this is all BS and wrong information. The bin files are not specific to the drive. This is not a damn DVD drive. Just backup the data, download the 60G hdds.bin file and flash with HDhacker. I've done tons of drives. Don't list to Deniss who is obvisouly a noob and doesn't know what he is talking about.


He could be right about it being a bad drive, but that's it ;)

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@Modking30, dennisv9 is absolutely right. With each 'official' hdd sold by Microsoft, the serial has to match the information that's in the HDDS.bin
Hddhackr only works with WD drives which you already know. There is at this moment no support for non WD drives so you can't use the HDDS.bin from another drive on a stock MS drive.

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THANK YOU!

to the original poster;
first try to extract your hddss.bin (= security sector = sector 16). this will be lost - only - if you tried to restore a backup from another MS drive to a new MS drive. In the case if you made a backup of your old 20 gig MS hdd with xplorer360; which you tried to restore on a new 120 gig MS hdd. then xplorer360 also overwrites the sector 16 of your new drive (120gig) with the information of your old drive (20gig). hence leaving it mismatch, and your 360 will not accept the 120 gig anymore. xplorer360 can extract your hddss.bin, with any hex editor you can load up your bin and read out the information that is in it. then see if the information in it, matches up the information on the drive itself (serial number should match).

then, use link that the second poster 'posted'. with this, you can wipe the whole disc and restore your hddss.bin. in my case, i had some troublesome sectors on the hdd, and my 360 wouldn't format it. it worked well enough on my pc and is now in my ps3. the drive itself will work, but a few (or a lot) sectors will read slow (or are bad). if so, then this hdd will not work in your 360 anymore. but programs like hddregenerator can fix many software based 'bad sectors' (due to incorrect shut down of the computer/hdd etc.).

Hello all,

Thanks for all the replies to this i will get chance to try this over the weekend and will post my results.
Thanks again all.

Eggman

Originally posted by eggman14:

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Hello all,

Thanks for all the replies to this i will get chance to try this over the weekend and will post my results.
Thanks again all.

Eggman

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and do not download a generic hddss.bin from the internet and try to put that on your drive like modking proposes. it will overwrite your own hddss.bin, and you will end up with a generic non 360 usable drive. first make a backup of your hddss.bin, then you can experiment as much as you want.

my suggestion, go for option 2 first (see link of second poster) (after you verify the information of your hddss.bin). is the easiest and fastest way, chances are that the xbox will see it as unformatted and will be able to format it. if not, you might have a failing hdd like i have.

Originally posted by dennisv9:

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Originally posted by eggman14:

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Hello all,

Thanks for all the replies to this i will get chance to try this over the weekend and will post my results.
Thanks again all.

Eggman

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and do not download a generic hddss.bin from the internet and try to put that on your drive like modking proposes. it will overwrite your own hddss.bin, and you will end up with a generic non 360 usable drive. first make a backup of your hddss.bin, then you can experiment as much as you want.

my suggestion, go for option 2 first (see link of second poster) (after you verify the information of your hddss.bin). is the easiest and fastest way, chances are that the xbox will see it as unformatted and will be able to format it. if not, you might have a failing hdd like i have.

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Hello all,

sorry for the delay and once again thanks for your help.unfortunately this drive gave up nothing so i used the shell and put a wd bevs 250gb in it.no joy whatsoever in retreiving anything.