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[92CXyD]

My wife just bought a XBOX 360 w/ 2 Madagascar movies and a Madagascar Game.

We found out for this "Special" black Friday deal they do not come with HD.

I looked on Egay and found some 20gb HD for 20usd shipped.

I was wondering if there is a way of getting a cheap HD with a capacity of 120gb or more?

Or does anybody have a spare HD to help out nog for Christmas. ;D

[bigwig]

20GB is enough.  I've been playing with 512mb with no issues.  I play MW2 and load times don't bother me playing off the disk.  I have plenty of room for another couple saved games.  Any media I want I throw on a flash drive until I get my router I ordered from Amazon to flash and run DDWRT on to get on XBL/Networked.

120GB is just excessive IMO.

[jagojon3]

A used 20 gig is your best bet. There's no real easy way of using other hard drives.

[DRQPQUT]

+1

[bigwig]

There are plenty of ebay faggots selling 60-120GB HDs for $60-100.  You can't do much better yourself at this point.

I haven't bought a used HD yet out of fear of Xbox's next ban wave.  I'm curious if they are going to start targeting aftermarket units.  Not to mention, I don't know if there is any "trace evidence" stored on the HD of a unit that was once flashed that would cause me an issue.  If I got banned for using an external HD, Walmart would definitely get the rebox treatment.

[fysh]

This is what I did... Works flawlessly.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/150970/upgrade_your_xbox_360s_hard_drive_on_the_cheap.html

And to make things even easier:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=WDGWD1200BEVS&x=0&y=0
HDDHackr v0.91
Xplorer360 v0.9 Beta 6

* 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.

[92CXyD]

This is what I did... Works flawlessly.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/150970/upgrade_your_xbox_360s_hard_drive_on_the_cheap.html

Great link I wonder will a 120gb lappy sata drive work?

[fysh]

This is what I did... Works flawlessly.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/150970/upgrade_your_xbox_360s_hard_drive_on_the_cheap.html

Great link I wonder will a 120gb lappy sata drive work?

AFAIK, HDDHackr only works on the WD drive listed previously. I edited my post to include everything you need.

[bigwig]

No offense, but that is so out of date.  Swapping the HDs is such a waste of time.  You have to buy very specific HDs which means you will end up buying them instead of just having something left around.  Go on ebay and just buy something.  160GB HD you have to dick around with will cost you around $70-80 while a 120GB eBay HD will cost you around $65-70.  Honestly, the extra 40GB is not worth the effort.

[fysh]

No offense, but that is so out of date.  Swapping the HDs is such a waste of time.  You have to buy very specific HDs which means you will end up buying them instead of just having something left around.  Go on ebay and just buy something.  160GB HD you have to dick around with will cost you around $70-80 while a 120GB eBay HD will cost you around $65-70.  Honestly, the extra 40GB is not worth the effort.

The OE signature code only allows for 120gb. At this time, running a 160gb would be impossible.

[potatodude]

Making it an even bigger waste of time.

[fysh]

I was unfamiliar with how cheap they go for on Ebay. I'm still kicking it old school, I guess.

[88dx]

Mez dont have no Xbox

[Urban Indian]

Mez dont have no Xbox

That why you are trying to match JD on posts?



I have a 120gb drive and I dont ever use that much space. If you are on the cheap budgets get the smaller one.

[92CXyD]

Just bought a cheap one for 32usd off of egay.  ;D

[Doug]

No offense, but that is so out of date.  Swapping the HDs is such a waste of time.  You have to buy very specific HDs which means you will end up buying them instead of just having something left around.  Go on ebay and just buy something.  160GB HD you have to dick around with will cost you around $70-80 while a 120GB eBay HD will cost you around $65-70.  Honestly, the extra 40GB is not worth the effort.

The OE signature code only allows for 120gb. At this time, running a 160gb would be impossible.

Considering mine I just got came with a 250GB drive from the factory, that's a negative.

Damn I have  20GB I would have sold you for $25 shipped
Just bought a cheap one for 32usd off of egay.  ;D

[fysh]

No offense, but that is so out of date.  Swapping the HDs is such a waste of time.  You have to buy very specific HDs which means you will end up buying them instead of just having something left around.  Go on ebay and just buy something.  160GB HD you have to dick around with will cost you around $70-80 while a 120GB eBay HD will cost you around $65-70.  Honestly, the extra 40GB is not worth the effort.

The OE signature code only allows for 120gb. At this time, running a 160gb would be impossible.

Considering mine I just got came with a 250GB drive from the factory, that's a negative.

Damn I have  20GB I would have sold you for $25 shipped
Just bought a cheap one for 32usd off of egay.  ;D

Looks like its time to do some upgrading. Also, you suck @ quotes.

[Jorsher]

No offense, but that is so out of date.  Swapping the HDs is such a waste of time.  You have to buy very specific HDs which means you will end up buying them instead of just having something left around.  Go on ebay and just buy something.  160GB HD you have to dick around with will cost you around $70-80 while a 120GB eBay HD will cost you around $65-70.  Honestly, the extra 40GB is not worth the effort.

The OE signature code only allows for 120gb. At this time, running a 160gb would be impossible.

Considering mine I just got came with a 250GB drive from the factory, that's a negative.

Damn I have  20GB I would have sold you for $25 shipped
Just bought a cheap one for 32usd off of egay.  ;D

No, not really a negative.

The drives have to be a certain model, you have to flash a firmware that the xbox will accept (which is probably what's discussed in the link above).

The xbox will only accept certain model drives with specific capacities...basically all you're doing is finding the drives they use in their official drives, and flashing the firmware they use on their official drives...basically building the exact same drives they sell

You can't throw in a size they don't sell unless it happens to work with the "xbox harddrive firmwares," and in that case the extra capacity won't be usable.

I wouldn't bother with it unless you already had the hardware to flash the drive.

Just buy a cheaper used one from ebay.

I'm still using my 20gb and it's fine unless you download a ton of shit from xbox live.

[Doug]

No offense, but that is so out of date.  Swapping the HDs is such a waste of time.  You have to buy very specific HDs which means you will end up buying them instead of just having something left around.  Go on ebay and just buy something.  160GB HD you have to dick around with will cost you around $70-80 while a 120GB eBay HD will cost you around $65-70.  Honestly, the extra 40GB is not worth the effort.

The OE signature code only allows for 120gb. At this time, running a 160gb would be impossible.

Considering mine I just got came with a 250GB drive from the factory, that's a negative.

Damn I have  20GB I would have sold you for $25 shipped
Just bought a cheap one for 32usd off of egay.  ;D

No, not really a negative.

The drives have to be a certain model, you have to flash a firmware that the xbox will accept (which is probably what's discussed in the link above).

The xbox will only accept certain model drives with specific capacities...basically all you're doing is finding the drives they use in their official drives, and flashing the firmware they use on their official drives...basically building the exact same drives they sell

You can't throw in a size they don't sell unless it happens to work with the "xbox harddrive firmwares," and in that case the extra capacity won't be usable.

I wouldn't bother with it unless you already had the hardware to flash the drive.

Just buy a cheaper used one from ebay.

I'm still using my 20gb and it's fine unless you download a ton of shit from xbox live.

What? By negative I meant that they have drives over 160GB