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A while ago my hard drive broke and I would like to find one STILL WORKING used. If you have any spares that you don't need because you bought the pro hard drive. Please LET ME KNOW!!
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Lone Wolf- Posts : 756
Join date : 2009-02-01
Age : 33
B Boy- Posts : 85
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Location : newnan
whats wrong with your hard drive?
Lone Wolf- Posts : 756
Join date : 2009-02-01
Age : 33
Doesn't work. thats really all i know. But I expect it is something mechanical like the motor because when I turn it on you don't hear anything from it, and it has that "magic smoke" smell.
navyseal1000- Posts : 820
Join date : 2009-03-27
Age : 29
Location : Macon, Georgia
Lone Wolf wrote:Doesn't work. thats really all i know. But I expect it is something mechanical like the motor because when I turn it on you don't hear anything from it, and it has that "magic smoke" smell.
Gamestop can take a look at it for you. I had that same problem before and Gamestop got it done in a week for only $25. But I hear only most Gamestops do it; not all of them fix consoles
Lone Wolf- Posts : 756
Join date : 2009-02-01
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Its not the console but its the harddrive. Sure I will call one near me and find out though. Good Idea cobes. Thanks
EDIT: just called one...none of the gamestops do that. Good try
EDIT: just called one...none of the gamestops do that. Good try
B Boy- Posts : 85
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Location : newnan
have you tried reformatting the hard drive? You can try to format it using your xbox but I never had luck doing it that way. I had one that stopped working I had to reformat it using my computer (had to take it apart hook it up to a sata port on my computer and format it using dos flash) I can send you instructions if you want me to.
Lone Wolf- Posts : 756
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No the xbox doesn't let me do anything if it sees the hard drive. I would need to convert a sata connection to work with the xbox 360 hardy. Or take it apart.
In that case, could you send me those instructions pls.
In that case, could you send me those instructions pls.
B Boy- Posts : 85
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Location : newnan
Here is the easiest to follow tutorial. It is for upgrading but it will give you a general idea on how to do it. If you have any questions let me know.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/150970/upgrade_your_xbox_360s_hard_drive_on_the_cheap.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/150970/upgrade_your_xbox_360s_hard_drive_on_the_cheap.html
Lone Wolf- Posts : 756
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I really appreciated that B boy thanks.
B Boy- Posts : 85
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no problem If you can't get it I can try a few things to get it up and working. Have you tried another hard drive in your xbox? if you can get a hold of someone elses I would try that to.
Lone Wolf- Posts : 756
Join date : 2009-02-01
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Yea I opened it up and I saw no actual damage to the hard drive so that is a good thing. I think tommorow i'll just pull the spare sata converter from my old computer and see if it reads the hard drive on boot.
Then format it and re-install the xbox firmware.
Then format it and re-install the xbox firmware.
B Boy- Posts : 85
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Lone Wolf wrote:Yea I opened it up and I saw no actual damage to the hard drive so that is a good thing. I think tommorow i'll just pull the spare sata converter from my old computer and see if it reads the hard drive on boot.
Then format it and re-install the xbox firmware.
Thats cool let us know how it goes
navyseal1000- Posts : 820
Join date : 2009-03-27
Age : 29
Location : Macon, Georgia
Good, glad to see you got a solution to try and fix it
Lone Wolf- Posts : 756
Join date : 2009-02-01
Age : 33
OKAY...so I found another guide. http://www.llamma.com/xbox/Repairs/Reading_Xbox_Hdd_key.htm
Which is on the Llama xbox mods website...very popular according to my friends. Anyways it says I need to first find the HDD EEPROM password in order to simply reformat it and give it a clean slate if the xbox menus are not accesible because it is running a corrupt file or Error-68.
Anyways I should be able to crack it because with this guide he gives a link to the cracker.
Just I need to go to radioshack and make a special reader to plug into the xbox from my computer to crack it and get the HDD key files.
...blargh...
Which is on the Llama xbox mods website...very popular according to my friends. Anyways it says I need to first find the HDD EEPROM password in order to simply reformat it and give it a clean slate if the xbox menus are not accesible because it is running a corrupt file or Error-68.
Anyways I should be able to crack it because with this guide he gives a link to the cracker.
Just I need to go to radioshack and make a special reader to plug into the xbox from my computer to crack it and get the HDD key files.
...blargh...
B Boy- Posts : 85
Join date : 2009-01-02
Age : 40
Location : newnan
Yea it is a good site but they tend to make stuff a little more complicated then need be imho. Let me know if you need any thing