How to hack a 250gb sata drive to work in the Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 Slim

After having a 20gb drive for the last 4 years and getting annoyed about having to constantly delete stuff I did something about it. I purchased a nice 250gb laptop hard drive for £30 and used hddhackr on it to enable the 360 to use it. I think doing your own drive is the way to go as Microsoft charge £89.99 just for the 120gig drive here in the UK, at that price I could make 3x 250gig drives for the same price! This guide will show you how I did that, its worth mentioning that you can also hack a 20gb, 60gb and 120gb drives, however i think doing a 250gb is the best value for money. If you have an Xbox 360 slim you can also hack a hard drive using this guide and connect it directly to the console, have a look at the end of the guide for information on how to connect your hacked drive to an Xbox 360 slim. Ok lets get started, first you will need to buy a hard drive to use in the Xbox 360. Hddhackr will only work with the following Western Digital Drives: - WD Scorpio Series BEVS/BEAS - WD Scorpio Blue Series BEVS/BEVT/BPVT - WD Scorpio Black Series BEKT/BJKT - WD VelociRaptor Series - WD AV-25 Series BUDT As of version 1.30, Hddhackr now works with all sizes and versions of the Western Digital Scorpio Series. You can not use another make of hard drive for this hack, it has to be one of the supported Western Digital drives. I purchased a 250gb WD Scorpio Blue Series drive (WD2500BEVT) for around £30 at CCL Computers. I would highly recommend you also purchase a Western Digital Scorpio Blue Drive, you have nothing to gain by buying a more expensive drive. The first thing you will want to do is create a bootable USB drive, for this I used a tool called Bootable USB Drive Creator Tool. Download Bootable...

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