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 Posted: Sun, 28th Dec 2008 12:24 Post subject: [XBOX360] 120GB Hacked HD |
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Anyone here done this hack? Planning on doing it at some point. Just wondering if anyone else here has successfully did it
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azzman
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| Posted: Sun, 28th Dec 2008 12:38 Post subject: |
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Done many mate. They could ban for it , dont know if people have been on this alone or not
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| Posted: Sun, 28th Dec 2008 13:04 Post subject: |
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What's this hack all about then?
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garus
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| Posted: Sun, 28th Dec 2008 13:08 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sun, 28th Dec 2008 13:52 Post subject: |
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Done it, couldn't just justify the cost of legit micro$oft drive so this was way better choice.
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| Posted: Sun, 28th Dec 2008 14:24 Post subject: |
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It works, but of the five people I know of who've done it all have been banned. It's useful if you don't care about Live.
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| Posted: Sun, 28th Dec 2008 14:25 Post subject: |
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| Lyrics wrote: | | Done it, couldn't just justify the cost of legit micro$oft drive so this was way better choice. |
cool. Do you have a link to a good tutorial m8?
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| Posted: Sun, 28th Dec 2008 15:32 Post subject: |
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Chances are you wont be banned for a homemade harddrive. As for your 5 friends Lyrics they should not have been on live with modded firmware. As of yet there have been no cases of umodded 360s with homemade hardrives being banned only people sporting flashed firmware.
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| Posted: Sun, 28th Dec 2008 17:24 Post subject: |
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It's impossible to ban you for having the 120GB hack drive, as the hack drive uses the SAME firmware/key from a legit drive -- that's the whole point. It's like spoofing, but for HDDs instead of the DVD drive.
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| Posted: Sun, 28th Dec 2008 17:25 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | It's impossible to ban you for having the 120GB hack drive, as the hack drive uses the SAME firmware/key from a legit drive -- that's the whole point. It's like spoofing, but for HDDs instead of the DVD drive. |
And a spoofed drive has never been banned?
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| Posted: Sun, 28th Dec 2008 17:36 Post subject: |
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Well no one can know whether the bans are due to the HDD hack or the FW hack, but it's a really strange coincidence MS decided to ban them after the HDD hack. Not that they were banned a day after teh HDD hack of course, but some of the five I know have been using the FW hack since the original release.
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| Posted: Sun, 28th Dec 2008 17:36 Post subject: |
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Well seeing as how, when you spoof the key, the new drive *IS* the spoofed one .. it's impossible to tell them apart .. then I don't see how you could ban for it. Once you've flashed the firmware to the drive or the HDD, it then *becomes* that drive.
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| Posted: Sun, 28th Dec 2008 17:43 Post subject: |
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Maybe they used the same key to flash several drives, that could be a reason for tagging. If every drive has a unique key of course. As for why they all used the same key, to get the entire 120GB you'll need a key from a 120GB drive. If you use your own 20GB drive for this purpose, the Xbox will only see 20GB of the 120GB available. I have no idea what they did though, just speculating here. I never bothered to read the specifics of this hack.
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Dec 2008 01:18 Post subject: |
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Is there also a nice way to transfer all the data from the 20gb hdd to the 120gb one? If there is I might actually do this in the next couple of days...
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Dec 2008 01:21 Post subject: |
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| Xenthalon wrote: | | Is there also a nice way to transfer all the data from the 20gb hdd to the 120gb one? If there is I might actually do this in the next couple of days... |
theres a dock thing that was made a few months ago you plugged your HD into but I can't seem to find it now. |
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Dec 2008 01:23 Post subject: |
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the microsoft drive is only around £60-70 here in the uk now and the WD is at least £37. I can see how this hack was worth it when the MS one was £120 but now its dropped the saving isnt really worth the hassle i don't think.
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Dec 2008 01:25 Post subject: |
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| phunt wrote: | | the microsoft drive is only around £60-70 here in the uk now and the WD is at least £37. I can see how this hack was worth it when the MS one was £120 but now its dropped the saving isnt really worth the hassle i don't think. |
lame the 120GB microsoft drive here is 135USD and the WD 120GB is 54. |
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grimmmy
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Dec 2008 01:44 Post subject: |
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| phunt wrote: | | the microsoft drive is only around £60-70 here in the uk now and the WD is at least £37. I can see how this hack was worth it when the MS one was £120 but now its dropped the saving isnt really worth the hassle i don't think. |
Not being funny, but where did you find those prices?
Best I can find, new, is £87 (including postage) for the 120Gb.
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Dec 2008 02:09 Post subject: |
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| grimmmy wrote: | | phunt wrote: | | the microsoft drive is only around £60-70 here in the uk now and the WD is at least £37. I can see how this hack was worth it when the MS one was £120 but now its dropped the saving isnt really worth the hassle i don't think. |
Not being funny, but where did you find those prices?
Best I can find, new, is £87 (including postage) for the 120Gb. |
I believe blockbusters are doing them for £69.99.
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Dec 2008 14:11 Post subject: |
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does this only word with WD driver, and only the one mentioned in the guide?
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garus
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Dec 2008 15:02 Post subject: |
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atf300
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| Posted: Wed, 7th Jan 2009 12:26 Post subject: |
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i've done it yesterday with a 250 gb WD , since thats the cheapest bevs drive my dealer had in stock. i know its a waste of space but the drive was 43 euro.
it was a bit of a hassle , since i havent used hex since the 90s , but works like a charm now . LIVE works no problem as well
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| Posted: Wed, 7th Jan 2009 13:09 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | It's impossible to ban you for having the 120GB hack drive, as the hack drive uses the SAME firmware/key from a legit drive -- that's the whole point. It's like spoofing, but for HDDs instead of the DVD drive. |
Surely it Could easily ban as a huge percentage of these users would have the same hddss.bin . But Too many negatives
would you ban the console or the hdd ? people share hdd's and banning the console would be silly
What about chinese ebay stores sellings 120gb hdd's that use this method . people could be duped with it
No real harm comes from them , You have more space . you can buy more videos from live , more arcade games and more DLC basically
| sabin1981 wrote: | but you know what Chinese whispers are like; some newbie will read your comment and suddenly run and spread it all over the internet that the new 2010 Banwave disables all your XBLA games when you're banned.
Ironic Statement #4756 from sabin |
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| Posted: Wed, 7th Jan 2009 13:13 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | You're supposed to use your OWN hddss.bin from your OWN hard-disk.  |
Whats the point off using your own hddss.bin
If you have a 20 gb drive it will reformat your new 120> drive back down to 20 . You will need hddss.bin from a 120gb hard drive which you obviously won't have
| sabin1981 wrote: | but you know what Chinese whispers are like; some newbie will read your comment and suddenly run and spread it all over the internet that the new 2010 Banwave disables all your XBLA games when you're banned.
Ironic Statement #4756 from sabin |
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| Posted: Wed, 7th Jan 2009 13:13 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed, 7th Jan 2009 13:23 Post subject: |
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Great argument there . Really put me in my place
As far as I'm aware you need a 120gb hddss.bin from a valid elite drive ( feel free to input here if I'm wrong , Since its signed and all you can't alter your own hddss.bin to magically match the serial to a 120gb drive....)
Now you have a 20gb or 60 gb hard drive . why in the world would you use this hddss.bin in your new drive . It will format the drive back to the size of your original as the ss contains both the serial and size restrictions.
Hence there is no point of dumping your own . You obtain the very public 120 hddss.bin from the net and use this....
| sabin1981 wrote: | but you know what Chinese whispers are like; some newbie will read your comment and suddenly run and spread it all over the internet that the new 2010 Banwave disables all your XBLA games when you're banned.
Ironic Statement #4756 from sabin |
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azzman
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| Posted: Wed, 7th Jan 2009 13:31 Post subject: |
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| Munkeee wrote: |
Great argument there . Really put me in my place
As far as I'm aware you need a 120gb hddss.bin from a valid elite drive ( feel free to input here if I'm wrong , Since its signed and all you can't alter your own hddss.bin to magically match the serial to a 120gb drive....)
Now you have a 20gb or 60 gb hard drive . why in the world would you use this hddss.bin in your new drive . It will format the drive back to the size of your original as the ss contains both the serial and size restrictions.
Hence there is no point of dumping your own . You obtain the very public 120 hddss.bin from the net and use this.... |
this is correct
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