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Hey guys it's Andrew Esquivel back here with another guide now what I'm gonna be teaching
you today is how to install a laptop hard drive on your XBOX 360. Now the reason why
you do this is because it's a heck of a lot cheaper to do this than to actually buy an
official XBOX hard drive. Now there's a few things i have to let you guys know before
you end up doing this 1) you have to have a Western Digital Scorpio Hard drive it gets
a little more detailed than that, but we'll get to that in a minute. 2) you're going to
need a flash drive, one that you're going to have to format it in a special way and
you're going to need 2 software's, I'll link to where you get the software's, and I'll
also link to a text guide where you can read how to do it but I'm gonna do it for you on
video. There's also a few questions you may have like, some people wonder "if I use a
3rd party hard drive will i get banned for it on the 360 network?" No you will not. The
only way you'll get banned is if you modify the HD DVD Player at all. So there's that
little bit and there's going to be a bit of using Microsoft DOS so it's going to be a
little difficult for those who aren't really computer savvy but I'll walk you through it
don't worry. You're going to need a laptop. You can use a desktop but it's easier to use
a laptop for this. I'm gonna walk through all the steps. It's gonna take a little bit
of time but just bear with me you'll understand how the heck to do all of this. We're going
to be using a Western Digital Scorpio I think 240GB (around there) basically the gist of
all this is I'm going to explain to you quickly what you do then I'm going to show you how
to do it. Basically what you do is take the flash drive, I just use an 8GB flash drive,
you plug it in your computer, download a special software that allows you to format the flash
drive so that you can boot MS DOS from it and once you have the flash drive formatted
and all that you transfer a special file, which is the HDD Hackr file onto the flash
drive and then you're done with the flash drive part. Next, take a laptop like the one
right here and what you do is you end up removing the plate which for me is right here for the
2.5 inch hard drive. And what you do is you remove that hard drive and put in the Western
Digital Scorpio and then from there you boot up the laptop from the MS DOS flash drive
and you enter in some command prompts and what it does is makes the HDD Hackr file run
and the HDD Hackr file will then make it so that the hard drive can be detected by XBOX
360 And then once your done with all that, The command prompts, the formatting, the hard
drive, you take the hard drive out of the laptop and you put it in your 360. From there
you go through a 360 menu where you can format the hard drive there. Now I know some of you
may be thinking why can't i use a different hard drive other than a Scorpio? It's because
the software we're using, the HDD Hackr is only programmed to use the Scorpio series
from Western Digital, so you're really limited on the options here. You can use different
amounts of space, you can use like a 40 gig or a 20 gig or an 80 gig or a 120 gig or a
240 gig, stuff like that, it's got to be the right increments though. So once you put it
in the 360 format it and everything then you should be able to use it. I'm not quite sure
why the software is only designed to use scoprios from western digital but I'm just fallowing
the instructions. One last thing I want to cover before we actually move on to how to
do all this is that you have to use Microsoft DOS there is no other way to do it. It won't
work on XP, it won't work on Vista, it won't work on 7, this is why we're booting from
the flash drive into DOS. In even command prompt it's not going to work. And the way
it has to be done you can't use DOS BOX which is a DOS emulator. So we got to do this specifically
in a certain manor. We're going to move on right now to how to format the flash drive,
we're going to go through the links, I'm going to basically show you the website where you
get all the stuff from, I'm going to show you where to click on the links, how to download
it, how to install it, how to format the flash drive, how to download the other thing and
transfer it to the flash drive, So this will take about 4-5 minutes at the most to do.
Just follow the instructions and like I promised, the link is in the description and it should
be the first link everything. So click on that and just fallow along. Okay so when you
click on the link this is the website you go to to get all the software. The website
is xboxhacker.net yadda yodaa... So this is where you get the hdd hackr stuff and junk
like that. So what you do is you plug your flash drive into the computer. I'm sorry that
I'm using a camera for all this I know i should be using a capture software it's just easier
to do this like this, so now that you've got your flash drive in there it will say yodda
yodda i already did this, so first what you do is you click on this "bootable USB Drive
Creator Tool" my mouse is being a little fussy... and you click on that and then over here it
wants you to download it so just download it. save I already downloaded it but I'm going
to download it again for you guys and over here on my 3rd monitor it says this you just
simply open it up and actually what i did is i went back and extract it to the desktop,
this will be easiest. so yes to all, so I extracted it to the desktop and if you look
up here that is the file you want right here, so you double click on that and you get this
software. What you want to do is you want to select the actual drive, which my drive
is drive "J" and it has to be FAT32, create bootable drive is what you want to select
and in order to do that you need to click the dot dot dot and search for the actual
files you just extracted. Mine are on the desktop, so you want to go to USB boot drive
boot files which is the file you want and then you're going to click on MS DOS and that's
the file you want. There you go. And click okay and click start. And it will ask you
do you want to do this because it will lose all your files so just click yes and it will
be doing it. And just wait for it to finish. It should be relatively quick. And as you
can see now it's actually done. So once you get that on there you close it then you open
up the actual flash drive and now what you do is you go back to that website. You want
the latest one with is 1.3 and you click that and it asks you to download, save files and
save it to downloads, and I already downloaded it but i will download it again. You open
that up and what you want to do is see this file it says hddhackr, you simply drag it
over to the flash drive and you let it copy there. So now you got it dragged over to the
flash drive we've got everything we need in the flash drive and that is just step 1, step
2 we actually need to go to a laptop. This involves taking out the laptop hard drive
and putting in a new one. Okay so now that we got the flash drive all ready to go, the
next step is to take the Scorpio blue hard drive and I'll give you a little bit of a
close up on that. And in order to put this in the laptop we actually need to take out
the actual hard drive that's already in here. So for me I'll have to unscrew this section
over here. Just pops off and this gets pulled. And then wha-la that hard drive is out however
mine requires a special adapter so in order to do this we have to unscrew 4 other screws.
Now I'll use this box to house my extra screws. Always have a box ready because we don't want
to lose anything so it's a good place to have for the extra screws. So i basically just
unscrew each of these sides and it'll take just a moment to do that, I'm not going to
speed up or anything cuz I want you to be able to do this relatively real time. And
I don't think you can really see what I'm doing but I think you'll be able to understand.
I'm just removing the hard drive because it requires a little bay. Okay so now that I
got those screws out I can simply just pull the hard drive off and as you can see they
are both just standard 2.5 inch drives I'm going to pull this little device off, put
my first hard drive here and I'm going to put this device on the regular drive, now
your computer might be a little different. Each laptop's a little different; mine has
to do it like this. And then basically we just put it back in here. So we just put it
back in the housing. We want this thing to be nice and secure. Then we just screw them
back in. Now since this is only temporary I really only need two, one on each side because
I'm just going to be removing it in a moment anyway. Wha la. Okay so now that i got the
Scorpio Blue hard drive in the special housing for my laptop I simply just line it up correctly
and slide it back in. and after that I just put the regular casing back on. Keep it nice
and tight in there so it doesn't slide off or anything. And we don't want it coming out
while we're trying to format it. Alright so now that we got it all nice and all in there
now is when we flip the computer around and we actually boot it up. And of course as we
did before, our flash drive will have the appropriate software so that it can do what
we need to do. So with that in place, now turn on the laptop. Okay so now we get to
the part that's relatively difficult which means we're going to be working inside Microsoft
DOS. So I'm going to walk you step by step through it and we're going to actually do
it. Now since my computer has the new Scorpio hard drive in there it's automatically defaulting
to my flash drive which has Microsoft DOS already in. So it's going to boot up and it's
going to see this screen, alright, it says Microsoft windows millennium copyright Microsoft
corp. So we have it all to that and assuming you have HDD hackr version 1.3 and the HDDS.bin
file and I'll put a link to both the 250GB bin file and the 120GB bin file, look in the
description for it, you're going to need the correct one. So once you have the bin file
and HDD hackr 1.30 on the flash drive you can boot it up, then we're ready to go. So
first thing we're going to type in is hddhackr and then it brings us to this now this menu
is where you select the actual hard drive we just installed so mine happens to be #4.
so yours might be different so find which one it is and then since mine is 4 i simply
press "4" and then "enter" now it asks us what we want to do, we want to flash the firmware
so we press "F" and "Enter". Now here's the tricky part, based on whatever you decide
to name your Bin file is going to determine how this works. I personally feel you should
just name the Bin file "1", just the number "1" and here's the tricky part, it's a Bin
file and this is Microsoft DOS so you have to be really specific, so we type "1.bin"
and then it actually detects it. If you don't do it correctly you're going to get an error,
it says checksum error blah blah blah and you didn't do it right. So now it wants us
to name a backup file. I'm simply going to call it, I'm going to call it "back up" and
I just have to call it back up and that's it, i don't have to enter anything else. Click
enter. File backup already exists do you want to overwrite it? Since I already did this
once before it's going to give me that, but your you doing it the first time you shouldn't
have to do that. Now it's going to bring us to this page and its asking you "information
on file 1.bin does not match the drives firmware info, do you want to flash Xbox 360 compatible
firmware?" you want to press "Y" and "Enter" and then you'll see this screen, see the green
letters and everything right? It says that it completely did it right, now it wants us
to disconnect the hard drive from the computer and put it into the XBOX 360. So once you've
done this all correctly that's all you need to do. Next step is putting it in the 360.
So what we're going to do is we're going to turn off the computer, do not restart, turn
off. And now comes the last step. We're going to take the hard drive out, got to put it
in the 360. So to do that we're going to unplug everything here, we're going to remove said
random stuff and now we're going to take the hard drive out. okay so when we get the hard
drive we're going to put it in this slot here, I'm going to let my camera focus, you put
it in that slot right there it's on the top or bottom, i don't know exactly, i think it's
the bottom, and you just line up the holes correctly and it goes in on there. okay you
got to go to console settings and you're going to want to go to system info and you going
to look for the serial number, you going to write down the serial number, then you're
going to go back to memory and then hard drive and from there you're going to go back to
go back to the format menu press "Y" and go to format, click yes, enter serial number,
and I'm going to block this out so you can't see the serial number, sorry guys, can't let
that serial number get out, and my brothers going to input the serial number and then
from there you should be able to format the hard drive thus giving you a complete 200
something gigabytes for half the price. So now the formatting is in progress because
we got the serial number in there and there you go. 228GB free for half the price.