Restoring original 20/60/120gb Xbox 360 HDD

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Seeing some people are having troubles with their original drives I thought I would post the tutorial I used to fix my two 20gb drives. I did not write this tutorial, but I will try to help who ever needs it as much as possible. 

 

What’s needed?

- WinHex or any other Hex Editor

- MHDD

 

MHDD:

http://hddguru.com/download/software/mhdd/mhdd32ver4.6iso.zip

or

http://hddguru.com/download/software/mhdd/mhdd32ver4.6archive.zip

 

Once MHDD is downloaded burn the MHDD.iso with an image burning software, or download MHDD as a .exe and put onto a bootable USB.

 

Restoring the 20GB HDD to be usable on the 360 if you used the HDD for something else and or you have deleted some or all the original xbox 360 data off the drive.

1. Connect your original 20GB drive to the PC.

2. Start you PC up and open WinHex

3. Select: Tools -> Open Disk (or press F9)

4. Select your HDD from the List under "Physical Media"

5. Select: Options -> Edit Mode (or press F6)

6. Select: In-place Mode (=editable) and press OK

7. At the ATTENTION popup message press OK.

8. Select: Edit -> Fill Disk Sectors (or press CTRL + L)

9. Select radio button: Fill with hex values: 00 and press OK.

10. You now get a popup saying: Please note that the inteigry of the partition(s)/file system(s) on "your xbox 360 hdd model here" may be severyly damaged by this operation. Click OK.

11. Sit back this will take about 10 minutes to complete.

12. Once the erasing completes, you will now need either your original HDDSS.BIN which you should have made with HDDHackr or download a generic 20GB HDDSS.BIN file appropriate to your HDD. I dont think a HDDSS.BIN from a Toshiba / Seagate will work on Fujitsu and vice versa. (I could be wrong)

13. Click: File -> Restore Image

14. In the file name box type: *.* and press Enter

15. Now browse to the directory where your HDDSS.BIN file is and select it and press Open

16. You will get a popup image saying: Is this an image with a partition structure. Click: Yes

17. You will get a popup image saying: Cauttion: You are in in-place edit mode. Click: OK

18. In the "Physical Media" section select your XBOX 360 HDD and click OK

19. Set the following options:

   - Write pattern for damaged source sectors (unselected)

   - Simulatenous I/O (selected)

   - Avoid damaged areas. Skip Range (unselected)

   - Start Sector: 16

   - Copy Entire Medium (selected)

    Click OK

20. You now get a popup saying: Please note that the inteigry of the partition(s)/file system(s) on "your xbox 360 hdd model here" may be severyly damaged by this operation. Click OK. If you get a popup saying you're in editmode, just click OK on that too.

21. You get a popup (summary) in the form of a notepad text file, Close it.

22. Exit winhex

23. Restart the PC booting off the MHDD bootable CD or USB stick. (you may need to make changes in the BIOS to boot off CD or USB stick)

24. If MHDD doesn't start automatically for you, or you're using a USB Boot disk type: MHDD and press enter

25. MHDD will identify hard drives connected to your PC. for example, for me it identified:

   3. FUJITSU MHV2020BH 0093002C NWxxxxxxxxxx 39,067,967

26. Enter the number corresponding to your xbox 360 HDD and press Enter. (in my case number 3)

27. You will now get to a blue prompt:

   MHDD>

    Type: NHPA (and press Enter)

28. Do you want to set Native LBA address (y/N)? - type: Y

29. Native Maximum LBA address: 39070079 Continue (y/N)? - type Y   (these values will be different on 60GB and 120GB drives)

30. You will get the following message:

   Fail. Try to re-power HDD.

   Done.

31. Unplug the power cable from your xbox 360 hdd

32. wait 10 seconds

33. Plug the power cable back in.

34. Type NHPA (and press Enter)

35. Do you want to set Native LBA address (y/N)? - type: Y

36. You will get the following message:

   Working ...

   Done.

 

37. Now unplug your power and data cables from your xbox 360 HDD (in that order: first power cable, then data cable) and connect the HDD to your xbox 360.

38. Go to the system Settings tab -> Memory

39. In storage devices you should now see an "Unformatted" hard disk. Select it and press A

40. Select format option and press A

41. This will delete all content on this device. Do you want to continue ? Select Yes and press A / OK

42. Enter your console serial number (can be found in the System Info tab in System Settings)

43. Your drive is now formatted and you should see a Hard Drive with 13.9 GB free space Wink