Modifying an Xbox 360...

lmatth · #1 01-03-2007, 06:28 PM

How easy is it to replace the HDD on an xbox 360? Anyone have any experience in doing such a thing?

fiskebent · #2 01-04-2007, 06:07 AM

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How easy is it to replace the HDD on an xbox 360? Anyone have any experience in doing such a thing?

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As far as I know, the HDD is 'married' to the console through a shared secret key, so you can't just replace it. Noone has figured out how to get a 3rd party HDD working with the Xbox360 yet.

Jeff_B · #3 01-04-2007, 04:17 PM

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How easy is it to replace the HDD on an xbox 360? Anyone have any experience in doing such a thing?

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As far as I know, the HDD is 'married' to the console through a shared secret key, so you can't just replace it. Noone has figured out how to get a 3rd party HDD working with the Xbox360 yet.

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They say its simple.
But I would check with the more knowledgable people there may be some limitation on it.. not being able to save games or something... once I get my live hooked up I'll bring a usb drive home from work (200gig) and see how it goes...

I was looking into it noticed that the xbox360 drive has some digital signature on it.. Not sure how that works and what it secures. Anyone with more information?

fiskebent · #4 01-04-2007, 04:26 PM

I think your link is wrong. It goes to Full Tilt.

I see now that you're talking about USB harddisks. I thought you wanted to replace the HDD that goes on top of the machine. That one has a SATA interface and can't be replaced (as far as I know). I have no experience with USB drives and the Xbox.

Jeff_B · #5 01-05-2007, 11:32 AM

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I think your link is wrong. It goes to Full Tilt.

I see now that you're talking about USB harddisks. I thought you wanted to replace the HDD that goes on top of the machine. That one has a SATA interface and can't be replaced (as far as I know). I have no experience with USB drives and the Xbox.

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Thank god I wasn't looking at porn [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
Is there a difference between the usb drives and the sata drives beside the obv? (speed) i.e. what are the each used for?

fiskebent · #6 01-05-2007, 11:48 AM

You can only save games and other stuff to the SATA drive (or a memory card).

The only thing you can do with a USB drive is play music from it or show pictures from it.

Jeff_B · #7 01-06-2007, 05:59 AM

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You can only save games and other stuff to the SATA drive (or a memory card).

The only thing you can do with a USB drive is play music from it or show pictures from it.

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cant download from xbox live? how big could game savevs possibly be?

fiskebent · #8 01-06-2007, 02:57 PM

What I mean is that you can only save stuff to the Xbox hard drive. That includes save games and all the stuff you can download from Live (demos, arcade games, trailers and more).

You can't save anything to a USB drive.

Hope that makes it clearer.