How to put an old Xbox 360 HDD into Xbox 360 S


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Stuffing foam and a string down a hole inside of your Xbox 360 S isn't amazing then. Sorry, it must be an every day electronics occurrence. rofl.gif My bad.

LOL

I just don't get why people are so surprised about it.

We know since Xbox 360 launch date that its HDD is SATA, in 360 S wouldn't be different tho.

If this jacks up the sales numbers for the arcade MS doesn't really care. The idea here is to use the same HDD you've had in your old 360 anyways, so those who have a 20GB and are fine with that are ok, I also had a 20GB, but I wanted more, made more sense to get the new 360S with a 250GB drive already. I also just gave my old one (with the hdd) away to my sister today.

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I just don't get why people are so surprised about it.

We know since Xbox 360 launch date that its HDD is SATA, in 360 S wouldn't be different tho.

I wouldn't say I am surprised, just was hoping they wouldn't do anything to fubar adding an old hard drive such as a special housing that restricts access to the SATA connectors.

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Don't ms have the ability to corrupt save games on jtagged 360s or something along those lines? I remember glancing over something but paid no particular attention as I couldn't jtag my console then.

Got to say, enjoying the 4gb. Picked one up from tesco for ?130. Much quieter than my old Xenon and even the Jasper! First thing I did was slide my 120gb into it :)

Yeah my old Arcade died out of warranty a few weeks ago, fell in love with the matte black 4Gb dont really like the glossy 250gb so got a good deal on one, Brand new unopened, 2100 microsoft points and HDMI lead for £125 from a friend. Not opened or played on it yet, will have a good session at weekend. Want to buy Dead Rising 2 DLC and Limbo.

Why would they be corrupted?

Don't ms have the ability to corrupt save games on jtagged 360s or something along those lines? I remember glancing over something but paid no particular attention as I couldn't jtag my console then.

Got to say, enjoying the 4gb. Picked one up from tesco for ?130. Much quieter than my old Xenon and even the Jasper! First thing I did was slide my 120gb into it :)

In the November 2009 ban MS corrupted game saves on flashed consoles. Or at least, they corrupted them if you loaded the saves after you were banned. If you never loaded them they were safe.

You can also hex edit the flags and restore them.

In the November 2009 ban MS corrupted game saves on flashed consoles. Or at least, they corrupted them if you loaded the saves after you were banned. If you never loaded them they were safe.

You can also hex edit the flags and restore them.

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Does this mean that the game saves on my banned 360, if I put the HDD in a new xbox they will be corrupt?

if you create a new save on the banned 360 those saves will also be corrupt.

Nah mate sorry I meant, if I take my 120gb out my old banned arade, if i were to put it in the slim, with hell, woulddn't some foam do, or would it get too hot.. but if I made new saves them on a new console, they'd be fine. But I'd be unable to load my old saves from the old box.

Getting my xbox modded was the death of gaming for me, it was only a contributing factor but couples with going to uni, not having as much time for getting into games and, when you dont hype a game and follow it for ages n just buy loads of games cause theyre cheap y'hardly play em. I didn't anyway.

Thinking of buying a 4gb for Reach, if I could afford live which I know I could with the money I waste on other ****. Even then it's 130 for the S plus 30 for gold plus 30 for reach, dunno if 200 pounds is worth trying to invest getting back into gaming when I have enough problems with finding time to study and money to live off as it is!

Wait, so the 4GB model doesn't have a HDD (which I knew) but you can't put an old 20GB HDD in there from a Pro let's say? Bleh, I was about to buy a new 4GB to replace my dead Pro Monday or Tuesday, but now I won't.

Guess I'll either get a new Arcade (which can take a HDD, right?!) or a refurb console from Gamestop.

Wait, so the 4GB model doesn't have a HDD (which I knew) but you can't put an old 20GB HDD in there from a Pro let's say? Bleh, I was about to buy a new 4GB to replace my dead Pro Monday or Tuesday, but now I won't.

Guess I'll either get a new Arcade (which can take a HDD, right?!) or a refurb console from Gamestop.

you can put any old 360 hard drive in there you just need to get it out of the carrier. if its banned from a banned console and the saves have been courrpted you will need to do a few extra steps before inserting it.

you can put any old 360 hard drive in there you just need to get it out of the carrier. if its banned from a banned console and the saves have been courrpted you will need to do a few extra steps before inserting it.

No my console isn't banned or anything, just dead as a doornail.

And by carrier I assume you mean that plastic whatever it's in once you remove it from the console? And will that void my warranty? (just making sure lol)

No my console isn't banned or anything, just dead as a doornail.

And by carrier I assume you mean that plastic whatever it's in once you remove it from the console? And will that void my warranty? (just making sure lol)

for the hard drive yes , for the console it wont.

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