DIY Use a Laptop Hard Drive in XBOX 360! Click of Death - Western Digital Scorpio Blue 320GB.

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Next you need to download Hddhacker v0.90 (built by The Specialist) and dump your hddss.bin firmware file from your 20GB Xbox drive onto a floppy disk by attaching the drive to a SATA controller (most modern motherboards should be fine), and then flash this file to the new 120GB drive. After this your drive should be ready to go. For full details on this procedure, read the guide on. This is one area where the PS3 can clearly show its superiority, as users can add their own 2.5' drive without voiding the warranty. Which reminds me, the warranty on both the new drive and the Xbox will probably be useless after doing this, so keep that in mind! Warning: Microsoft is now from Xbox Live!, so it is recommended you DO NOT try this mod!

I too think that $179 bucks for a 120 gig 'Microsoft Certified' hard drive is stupid. Any way we can save a few bucks by doing it ourselves is all for the better.

Microsoft is addicted to money like some people are addicted to crack, and the xbox360 is proof of that. I have several friends that have the Xbox360 and bought it brand new. Exactly when the warranty expired, the Xbox360 would die on them. 2 of them sent it back to be repaired and it cost over $130 for each repair. Not only that, Microsoft uses it to their advantage because they can spy on people by looking at the hard drive and seeing anything they have on it. Now the updates that you have to get to play online games is stupid.

This allows them to spy on you remotely. Any bit of data they can get on you they use it to make money (information = money). Many of these people when they got the updates, the Xbox360 died on them causing them to pay for Microsoft's mistake. How can a update be for security when it opens a back door for Microsoft? Did you know that if you refuse to install XP service Pack 2 on a machine with Service Pack 1 you get banned from Microsoft updates? Enough is enough Microsoft, you can take Vista, Windows XP service Pack 2, and the Xbox360 and shove it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! System Name The ClusterF**k Processor 980X @ 4Ghz Motherboard Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 BIOS F12 Cooling MCR-320, DDC-1 pump w/Bitspower res top (1/2' fittings), Koolance CPU-360 Memory 3x2GB Mushkin Redlines 1600Mhz 6-8-6-24 1T Video Card(s) Evga GTX 580 Storage Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB, 2xSeagate 320GB RAID0; 2xSeagate 3TB; 2xSamsung 2TB; Samsung 1.5TB Display(s) HP LP2475w 24' 1920x1200 IPS Case Technofront Bench Station Audio Device(s) Auzentech X-Fi Forte into Onkyo SR606 and Polk TSi200's + RM6750 Power Supply ENERMAX Galaxy EVO EGX1250EWT 1250W Software Win7 Ultimate N x64, OSX 10.8.4.