Inside the Xbox 360 HDD enclosure

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 12 Dec 2007, 20:58

I've been doing research on the 360 since before i got my first one a few months ago. Specifically research on the hardware/modding side. One thing that i've been wanting to do for ages was open up my HDD. I was reluctant though because it's still under warranty, but just now i decided to open it ayway.

So, here's the HDD:

Underneath:

Top cover off:

Random metal cover off and HDD exposed:

HDD out:

My specific 360 has a Samsung disk:

Man, i wish i wasn't going on holiday... lol... i just wanna stay home and finish my mod and start with a 360 mod

Anyway, thought you guys might like to know what you store all your stuffs on

TheModDoctor · Post by **TheModDoctor** » 12 Dec 2007, 21:12

Wow! Looks nice. I see it is SATA, do you think that a normal pc SATA hdd would work on it? (Because anything might be better that samsung

)

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 12 Dec 2007, 21:14

You need to use specific HDDs and specific models, which need to be formatted and partitioned in a specific manner to get them to work. It's a real schlep

TheModDoctor · Post by **TheModDoctor** » 12 Dec 2007, 21:16

That makes sense.

DarkRanger · Post by **DarkRanger** » 13 Dec 2007, 07:27

But DAE will find out where we can get these HDD's and how to format them, right DAE??

EDIT: DAE, thought you might find this interesting

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 13 Dec 2007, 09:26

Nice link DR, fanx man

DarkRanger · Post by **DarkRanger** » 13 Dec 2007, 10:15

no prob.

looking for programs to format in FATX

shinji-aoi · Post by **shinji-aoi** » 18 Dec 2007, 17:08

Don't know if this will work but Paragon Partition Manager 5.5 personal version supports FATx.
It's a data recovery package, and should also be able to format to FATx.

Also you could try a Laptop SATA drive in an external enclosure (the USB powered ones) hooked up to the usb port.
If the drive is RAW the console might pick it up as a unformatted memory card and try and format it....

....maybe.....

shinji-aoi · Post by **shinji-aoi** » 19 Feb 2008, 10:27

I found TestDisk a while back after one of my drives decided to go corrupt (again

).

It's called TestDisk and now sports the ability to create XBox partitions (or MBT or MBR... been a long night...

)

Hope this helps.

ZeroS · Post by **ZeroS** » 19 Feb 2008, 11:56

This sounds interesting.

Mubz · Post by **Mubz** » 17 Apr 2008, 18:46

Wow, i always wondered whats behind the cover of my 360 HDD.
Daejavoo, u'r very brave to open it up. LOL

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 17 Apr 2008, 22:29

Why brave? It's just a hard disk