i got a HDD to install in my xbox and when i zerod it using xhdprepa i couldnt do anything to it, my computer wont recognize it neither will Xplorer360... if anybody knows how i can reformat it cuz i need this HDD to put my music on it now..
once a hdd has been installed in an xbox it belongs solely to that xbox.. it cant be used for anything else now except a book end or paperweight
it hasnt been installed into the xbox, and from what i know there is nothing on it, is it still useless?
there are a number of tools out there to fix seemingly dead hdds.. ill ask a friend of mine what tools he uses in his shop and get back to you..
out of interest.. did you buy the hdd new.. if so there would be no need to zero it to put it in your xbox as it would already be blank and would just require an auto installer like slayers evox or similar
when i bought it it was used, but it had already been re-formatted, then i used it to put my music and stuff on it, then when i started to get into modding my xbox, i wanted to use it insted of my stock HDD
next time you try using a preowned drive just do a normal format on the pc and that will be good enough.. you know the whole ...my computer ... hard drive .... tools tab.... format .... thingy... xbox can understand a drive formatted by pc but pc has mucho problems in doing anything with a drive used in an xbox
one of the progs my friend uses to revive sick hdds is a program called g disk.. search google or a peer to peer network and im sure youll find somewhere to get it from
hmm... im having a hard time trying to find gdisk, if there is a like you could send that'd be great, but untill then ill keep looking, ill post if i find it
If you are going to replace your hard drive than it is important that you do not do anything to the original hard drive! Does the stock drive still work in your xbox? It should since zeroing should not have worked on a locked drive. If it does still work, you need to look up how to softmod an xbox and retrieve the "eeprom" this is the most important file, it is REQUIRED in order to put a new drive in your xbox. So, don't do anything to your old drive until you get what you need of it.
i didnt yes it wasnt locked, it was a pc drive that i bought used to put in my xbox, when i zeroed it it just stopped working alltogether.
Okay good, I thought you tried to format your original drive. You need that to get your eeprom before you upgrade. Keep in mind that the drive you are trying to format may be bad. What I reccomend you do is download "Xboxhdm". This is a program you can use to upgrade your hard drive. You don't have to keep trying to format your hard drive, this program will do it for you. Download it, FTP your eeprom and 'C' and 'E' drives to the corresponding folders and run "make-iso-win.bat" burn the .ISO it makes to a CD and plug in ONLY the hard drive you wish to format for your xbox and put this CD in. Select the first option, type "yes" then "xboxhdm" then select the first option again. Type yes in for all the questions and the program will start to format and create your drive. After it finishes restart your computer and now select the 3rd option (locking/unlocking tools). Type in "lockhd -a" and it will automatically lock the hard drive for your xbox. And that's it, now just plug the hard drive into your xbox. If the program fails to format the hard drive, then it's fine. You can still try to format in Windows or do whatever you want with the drive, it just means it's bad. But this is one of the best ways to uprgrade your hard drive and it will format your hard drive for you, so you don't have to zero it before hand. Good luck.
Sorry, not with this tool. This is one of the best/easiest ways to upgrade your xbox's hard drive plus it will most likely solve your formatting problem. I would reccomend you find someone with a CD burner and use this.
