9/3/2019 Xbox 360 320gb Hddss.bin Download
Xbox 360 500GB Hard Drive Security Sector Download (HDDSS.BIN) (HDDSS500GB.BIN) Discussion in ' Apps (PC) ' started by InsaneNutter, Mar 5, 2014. InsaneNutter Resident Nutter Staff Member. Feb 23, 2014 2. Created bootable USB drive and flashed the hddss.bin for the 320gb drives. It did give message, but proceeded anyways. Port was not in AHCI mode 3. Connected new drive to xbox 360, booted up, and was able to format drive (after entering serial #) 4. Attached original Xbox Drive (Fujitsu MHW2120BH 120gb) to sata port and booted up 5.
Since the day of the Xbox 360 release, storage space for the device has been overpriced beyond belief. OEM 250GB HDD models still cost $110 USD! A 250GB hard drive should not destroy my wallet, Microsoft. Storage space, especially on HDDs, is cheap. You can buy a removable 2TB external for only $100 USD, so it's a little beyond my comprehension to see how they calculate their MSRP to yield such a large profit.
On the other hand, Xbox 360 had very impressive hardware specs back in the day, equipped with a triple core CPU, which was unheard of at that time. The only thing that makes a 360 HDD unique from others is a special secure file system and sector, so we can essentially hack other hard drives to do the same thing. In this, let's go over how we can hack a cheap alternative hard drive to work with our Xbox 360s.
Warning. I do not know if the latest Xbox dashboard can do silent scans for this and ban you accordingly. The latest update was very sneaky, so be safe. Requirements. Windows OS. At least $50.00, or one of the hard drives listed below. USB drive.
Computer capable of booting from USB Spare Hard Disk Drive Purchase and use any one of the following drives to hack for use with your Xbox. WD Scorpio Series HDD (any). WD VelociRaptor Series.
WD AV-25 Series BUDT Downloads Drive Sector Data This is what allows your Xbox 360 drive to use the space on the disk. Only the following sizes are allowed, even if your disk is larger. Download the one that you need. Right-click and unzip it to your desktop. is our tool of choice.
Make sure it is downloaded and waiting on your desktop. Step 1: Format Device for Hacking First, we need to make sure our device is formatted properly to be booted from when we toss the tool on there. Standard Method. Navigate to Computer.
Right click the USB drive and click format. Make a DOS boot disc and select quick format. If That Didn't Work. Grab the tool. Unzip files via right-click extract.
Select your USB drive. Select FAT file system. Select quick-format and Create bootable DOS drive. Browse and choose the USB Drive Boot Files MS-DOS folder as the location. Click start. Step 2: Prepare the Files & Drive Now we need to drag the files to the bootable drive that we will use to hack our HDD. Extract the drive sector data and the HDDHackr tool that you have on your desktop into the root of the bootable device that we made.
Make sure your.BIN file is named HDDSS.BIN. Shut down your computer. Connect the hard drive that you are hacking in place of your main computer hard drive.
If you don't know how to do it, check out this tutorial from. Keep your hacked USB connected. Step 3: Hack That HDD Text in bold indicates a DOS prompt command that you need to type. Boot your computer and strike F12 (normally) to get into your boot menu.
Select USB. Enter the number corresponding to your drive letter. It is the SATA drive with WD somewhere in its name. Hit F to flash. You will get a message saying, 'The information in file HDDSS.BIN does NOT match the drive's firmware info. Do you want to flash the Xbox 360 compatible firmware?'
. Hit Y, again. Your drive is now hacked! To install it, simply remove the screws and case from your old HDD and swap it out for the new one. Have fun with your less-than-half-price HDD. Follow Null Byte!.
Photo by Related. Everything in the tutorial worked like a charm.
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However, there is a step missing (it could be my computer that caused it). In step 3, after I selected usb, I was given a c: prompt but nothing else. The letter represented the usb stick with the appropriate files on it. So I typed in hddhackr.exe (I think that was the name) and hit enter. Then I was able to continue on as the tutorial stated. You may want to check into this. At any rate, I was able to get 228gb more hdd space than the 4gb I had.
Thank you very much!
The release of the 120GB HDD for the Xbox 360 was something we’ve (read: fanboys) been waiting for since the 360 was released. But $179 is a lot for a HDD that we can purchase for much cheaper. Alas, the interwebs have shown me the light and there is a hack to add on a much cheaper 120GB HDD, Western Digital Scorpio BEVS-LAT SATA 2.5-inch PC/laptop, to my beloved Xbox 360. Attached is the latest version of the hddhackr.
It works with the new 120 gb signature. However, this current version can not dump the hddss.bin file automatically from that drive, you’ll have to manually dump sectors 16-22 with a tool like winhex and save them as ‘hddss.bin’.
After that, continue as normal with the hddhackr and everything will be fine. Also, I’d like to stress that there are 2 versions of the WD BEVS drive out there: the ‘RST’ and the ‘LAT’ version. This tool currently ONLY supports the ‘LAT’ version! You can find on the sticker of the HDD which version it is. I’ll hope to be able to support the RST version of the drive in a future version of this tool. From the official readme: Hddhacker v0.90 by the Specialist.
DISCLAIMER: This tool has only been tested by me. It worked for me. While great care has been taken, this tool may contain bugs and therefore may seriously harm your HDD. Use at own risk!!!.
What: This tool will allow you to use HDD’s that are not ‘certified’ by Microsoft. This specific tool is written for use with the Western Digital BEVS series only!. How to use: Get yourself a Western Digital SATA BEVS HDD. To use this tool, you need a HDD security sector file (‘hddss.bin’).
If you don’t have one, here’s how to create one from a valid xbox 360 HDD: – Dumping the hddss.bin file Boot to dos from a writeable medium (like a floppy). Connect an.original. xbox 360 HDD to your SATA controller. Make sure it is the only SATA device that is connected. Now run ‘hddhackr -d’. This will create a file ‘hddss.bin’ and it will save it to the path you’ve started the hddhackr from. – Modding your Western Digital Now turn off your PC and connect the Western Digital and boot to dos again.
Type ‘hddhackr -f’ from the same path you have saved the hddss.bin file to. This will flash your FW. It will ask if you want to create an undo file. It is advised to do so. This will create an ‘undo.bin’ file that you need if you want to undo the hack. – Check if it worked Shut down your pc, reboot again to dos and again type ‘hddhackr -f’.
It should now tell you that the drive should work in your x360. If so, connect it to your x360 and go to your dashboard/system/memory where you should be able to format the drive. – Restoring your WD to original state If you don’t want to use your modded WD in your x360 anymore and you want to flash it back to its original size, then you can now do so. Boot to dos again and run ‘hddhackr -u’. This will use the undo.bin file you created before to restore the drive to its original state. I get an error when I try to dump hddss.bin from a 120 gb HDD. This version can’t dump from an elite drive yet.
You’ll have to dump sectors 16-22 manually with a tool like winhex, save them as ‘hddss.bin’ and then continue like normal, with the hddhackr. Will this tool allow me to connect a 500 gb drive to my x360? The information on sector 16 is signed and can’t be changed. You can only use size where you have a valid signature for. In otherwords, if a bigger HDD comes out, you can use that signature. With which HDD’s does this work?
It currently only works with the ‘LAT’ version of the Western Digital Scorpio BEVS series. The ‘RST’ version of that drive is currently NOT supported Q. Do I need the same size WD HDD as the size on sector 16 states? You can use bigger HDD’s, but you can’t use more than the size stated in sector 16. You can NOT use smaller HDD’s than the size on sector 16 states. For example, you can use a 40 GB HDD with a sector 16 from a 20 GB HDD, but not the other way around of course. Can I use the HDD in my PC again?
The tool comes with an ‘undo’ option, that will restore the original size. For example, you use a 40 gb WD HDD, you used hddss.bin from a valid xbox 20 gb HDD, so the tool will transform your 40 GB HDD into a 20 gb HDD. However, you can restore it to 40 gb anytime you want with the undo option. I have a x360 core version and want to use this hack to buy a cheap HDD. But how do i connect it?
If you don’t have a premium, you can make the HDD internal. One great tutorial that will show you how to do this here. The tool doesn’t detect my HDD!
First, make sure you are running it from dos, not from a dos box under windows. If the hddhackr does not autodetect your SATA controller (if you have an nForce chipset for example), then you can manually edit the hddhackr to support it.
To do this: 1. Find the two ports that your SATA chipset uses for data communication (see the MTKediting thread for more detailed info on how to do this), basically, you need to run ‘msinfo32’, then go to storage/scsi or storage/ide, depending on your SATA chipset and then look for the two ports that have a difference of 7 between them. For example: I/O-port 0x0000EFE0-0x0000EFE7 I/O-port 0x0000EFAC-0x0000EFAF I/O-port 0x0000EFA0-0x0000EFA7 I/O-port 0x0000EFA8-0x0000EFAB I/O-port 0x0000EF90-0x0000EF9F I/O-port 0x0000E800-0x0000E8FF In this example the two ports you are looking for (with difference of 7) are 0xEFE0 and 0xEFA0 2.
Open the hddhackr.com in a hexeditor and search for the string ‘port=MPRT’ (it is at the end of the file). Now, that ‘MPRT’ string is 4 bytes long: 0x4D 0x50 0x52 0x54.
You have to replace these four bytes with the 2 port numbers (which are each 2 bytes long, so you replace the 4 bytes in total), so in the example above you replace these four bytes with: ‘0xEF 0xE0 0xEF 0xA0’. If you then start the hddhackr, it will automatically detect that you have edited that string, so it will skip the SATA autodetector and instead use the port numbers you’ve supplied. Could you do this for my Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung or whatever drive too? Yes, but I don’t have plans to do so. The cheapest WD drive (40 gb) ships for about $50 and thus is one of the cheapest. It is a lot of work to convert this tool for usage with other brands and I don’t think it is worth the trouble. How do I find out if my BEVS drive is a ‘LAT’ drive?
It’s printed on the sticker of the drive, in the model name. For example: WD1200BEVS-60LAT0 Q. Will there be support for the RST drive in the future? I’ll hope to receive an RST drive soon and then hopefully can find out what’s going wrong and be able to support it in a future version of this tool. Where can I donate? Just enjoy Thanks to: Team MODFREAKz for his initial logic board experiments, Loser for his findings on the sector 16, Antman1 and Rutger1413 for supplying info about the new 120 gb signature and everybody else at XS/XBH. TS in april 2007 via.
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