How To Remove Hard Drive From Xbox 360

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Upgrade your Xbox 360'south hard drive on the cheap

Relieve coin past upgrading your 20GB Xbox 360 difficult drive to 120GB without buying Microsoft's overpriced add-on.

Remove Your Xbox 360 Bulldoze

With this slightly tricky hack, you can save a bundle while boosting your game console'due south storage capacity to hold more music, video, and other media files.
You'll need a DOS installation on a writable flash pollex drive for this hack. (The utility doesn't piece of work under Windows, and you lot'll besides be disconnecting your PC's hard bulldoze.) First, grab a spare USB thumb drive and re-create the HP Bulldoze Central Boot Utility to information technology. The utility is designed for HP flash drives, but information technology works on other types of flash drives, likewise. As well download and mount a DOS image file.
This hack is designed to work with a specific bulldoze, the 120GB Western Digital Scorpio, model number WDGWD1200BEVS. Y'all'll be replacing the drive's native firmware with Xbox-recognized firmware. You can track downward the firmware online by doing a search for "hddss.bin 120 Xbox 360." Place the hddss.bin file in the root of your DOS thumb bulldoze.
Once yous have these items and files ready, begin the upgrade by removing your Xbox 360'south hard drive from the game panel.
(Just don't expect the states to go you a new Xbox 360 if it all goes wrong!)
Install the New Drive in the Xbox 360

Remove the newly formatted 120GB bulldoze from your PC and install information technology into the Xbox 360 bulldoze enclosure. Put the enclosure back together, reattach information technology to the console, and turn the panel on. Follow the prompt under 'System, Retentivity' to format the new drive; after formatting is complete, the drive will exist ready for use.
Kicking From the Thumb Drive and Format the Hard Drive

Subsequently, kick from your DOS thumb drive (specify a boot drive in your PC'due south BIOS, if necessary). At the DOS control line, type "run hddhackr –f" (don't include the quotation marks) and press Enter. You lot'll be prompted to make a backup of the original drive firmware; exercise and then. Proceed with the procedure to flash the firmware on the new hard drive. After a few seconds, you'll exist prompted to restart the computer. Once you lot have done so, run the "hddhackr –f" command once again, and it should report that the difficult drive has been formatted for the Xbox 360.
Slide Out the Drive

With the retaining screws removed, disconnect the drive from the SATA-and-ability cablevision, and slide the drive out of the enclosure.
Open up the Drive Enclosure

Use a Torx screwdriver to open up the drive enclosure, exposing the interior drive cage. Next, remove the four screws holding the drive into the cage.
Install the New Drive in Your PC

With your PC turned off, unplug any other SATA devices and so connect the new Scorpio drive to one of the SATA cables and to a power lead.