xbox 360 slim hard drive

well i hook it out and hooked it up to my pc through sata i thought it would work fine, i opened xplorer360 and a lot of the data seemed missing, and when i put it back into my 360 it wouldnt be detect. so i formatted it to fat32 and my xbox 360 still wont detect it and am not sure what to do any ideas

 

how many gigs is the harddrive?

 

u formatted the xbox hd on the pc,good luck cause now you have a pc hard drive rather than a 360 one

 

thats what i was thinking

 

well thanx to hddhackr ive managed to format it to 360 in a way i think anyway, i have the 3 partitions in xplorer360 but my 360 still wont find it. could it be my 360 slot? and 250gig hard drive. i might just use my warrenty and hope they can fix it

also b4 i formatted it on pc it stopped being detected on my xbox am trying to find an image from xplorer360 to restore it to see if it works

 

your pretty much screwed,,there are files on the harddrive for the 360 2 detect,,just one question,,why did you format it on the pc,can reformat it with the xbox,,

 

because the Xbox wouldn't detect it, and i read if you format to fat32 the Xbox will format it again. I think the moment the 360 hard drive plugged into my pc those files became damaged or deleted, because i looked in xplorer360 and none of my game saves or gamertags were there, and i put it back into the 360 but no luck. isnt there anyway to get a copy of those files?

 

Does it work on your computer when you format it to FAT32? If so, the drive is good. If not, then it's bad.

Could be:

Connectors from the hard drive slot on motherboard to board. Usually re-soldering the cracked solder will fix this.

Bad connector from hard drive to sata hard drive connector.

Bad drive

 

i think he just formated it on his pc and lost the files on the drive that you needed for the xbox to see it,,now that the files are lost,,its only good for 16 out of 250gigs,the rest its good for music and photos,,

 

well how do people then create there own 360 drives with the WD drives? i mean how would they get those files?

does this have anything to do with it?

http://beta.ivancover.com/wiki/index.php/Xbox_360_Hard_Drive_Upgrade#Downloads

 

you would get them off another 360 drive,

 

right thankyou looks like am guna have a lot of work ahead of me

 

why did you take it out in the first palce???

 

because I wanted to copy stuff onto it. thankfully its under warranty and Microsoft are going to send a new one out. It turns out the moment you plug it into your pc those files are corrupted.

 

thats good but if you dont know what your doing dont mess with it,MS might catch on

 

to be honest i thought it was pretty straight forward, but now it seems its like some sort of protection, minute its plugged into a computer those files and my game saves, gamertag and everything disappears, all this for some dlc almost doesnt seem worth it