Old Xbox 360 Hard Drive + Hard Drive Transfer Kit = Portable USB Hard Drive!

So... You've decided to buy the 120GB HDD for your Xbox 360. Now you have an old hard drive that you're probably not going to use anymore, as well as a useless cable. You could sell it or give it away... or put it to good use.

Step 1 Materials

You will need:
-An unused Xbox 360 hard drive
-The Hard Drive Transfer Kit cable that came with the 120GB hard drive
-A disk format utility for your pc (this tutorial will use Windows Disk Management)

Comments

[account3r2]

Nice way to reuse a working old HDD!

Another way to reuse it is to (one of my favorite things) void the warranty and extract the 2.5" HDD and use it for ...I dunno... lots of stuff. And if you get a USB adapter case for it that might be a bit more convenient, too.

[Klepisimo]

I have a slight problem following this Instructable... I cannot install the drivers for the HDD, I get "Error Code 10" on Windows Vista.

[ELITE-01]

I was actually looking for a way to to exactly this earlier yesterday,

nice one dude

[iboreasily]

is there a way to reverse this?

[qantas_man]

"(Additional notes: Unfortunately, the hard drive won't be recognized by the Xbox 360. However, it will be recognized on a PS3.)"

that's no longer true, as of the 6th April 2010 xbox 360 consoles that are connected to xbox live will receive an update that allows them to use usb storage.

also the xbox would have recognized it anyway it just wouldn't save to it.

[stinny301]

unless u have a new xbox 360 which can make a use in to the format so then you could have to hard drive for the one consol

[diyluke]

I would of just taken it apart and unplugged th 2.5" SATA HDD and put it in an OWC Express enclosure ($20+ your flavor of shipping method) formatted it and have a less ghetto looking external USB HDD.

[A.C.E.]

you could use some duct tape to make it more permanent.

[sjoobbani]

 I have windows vista, and when I plug it in it says mass usb storage, but it doesn't show up anywhere under computer or the disk thing. Tried it on an XP machine too... what's going on?

[sjoobbani]

 Nevermind, it works, just formatting on Vista was messed up.

[Solderguy]

You can use this to hide info away from prying eyes. >_> No one will ever thing to look in your XBOX 360 hard drive. :P

[Crakur]

your sick sir *stashes fap folder on 360 HDD*

[Th3H4rRy]

Why didnt I do this with my old hard drive?! Argh I sold my 20GB one, still have the adaptor however, I find it funny that in the instruction booklet it says to dispose of the adaptor accordingly after use, pfft yeah right, with the adaptor i have full access to my xbox hard drive and back up my saves!