Upgrading the Xbox 360 hard drive CHEAP!

Step 10 DONE!

When I turned on my Xbox 360, it said that an update was required. It took about 12 minutes to download. Once it completed, I signed into Xbox Live and everything was working.

You will want to verify that everything works once the copy is complete. Some save games and content cannot be transferred to another media and will not work. Everything I had worked just fine.

I did not have videos, but someone reported that they did not work until they went to System --> select hard drive --> system items --> delete "rights database".

Comments

[Hoopsjake2009]

Incredible tutorial!!! I started with an arcade, ordered the hard drive and a case from hong kong. Within a half an hour of getting both, I downloaded everything, I made a bootable flashdrive (using an earlier link), hacked the hard drive, and put in in the kase. I had a new 120gb hard drive for 40 dollars in 30 minutes. Great. I would recommend using a bootable flash drive instead of a floppy. You can also use 250gb hard drives.

[MegaSam]

Has Anyone tried all this with a 250 gb hard drive?

[notkeith]

Now that Microsoft has released a 250 gb drive, you can find the proper hddss.bin file with a quick google search.  It should work fine as long as you buy the right hard drive.

[Tyrosx]

So if you read my last comment and are having the same issue...Even though I could see partion 2, I still had to go in and edit the HEX code on the drive (I bought one on ebay preassembled). After that everything copied over great and now works fine.

[Tyrosx]

Have you been able to play Xbox 1 titles on this new Drive? I have not been able to get it to work.

[hogcia]

Thanks for tutorial!

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[jwilson27]

Always looking for bargains! Thanks!