So recently I was reading about replacing the Xbox 360's harddrive with a 250GB WD BEKT or other compatible ones. It seemed pretty easy, except I'm not sure if my desktop has a SATA in it. It was purchased 5 years ago, and from my past experience assembling my own computers I remember the harddrive calbe for desktops are the bigger gray ones instead of the red small ones.
I figured it'd be easier if I simply removed my laptop's drive instead of my desktop (fewer steps, don't need to handle the big case, just overly a smaller job). I figured that's a technically sound plan, but I want to check if there's any reason I won't be able to do this on a laptop? Thanks!
Actually, I've heard numerous accounts where people said they've been able to replace their drive with a BJKT or BEKT (including some addicts on here). The drive is actually 7200 RPM, and the original one in the box is actually 5400 RPM, contrary to what you said. Where are you getting this information that it won't work?
The drive I'm talking about is a laptop drive, same as the one in the 360, so there's no need to cram it in or another cable. The casing should have that, which would be used to connect to the 360, in there.
Anyways, I just wanted to make sure that I can do this on my laptop, thanks!
PS. here's the link to the tutorial. Actually after searching for the word laptop in it, I found that someone actually plugged it into their laptop (now I feel stupid). Somehow I missed that while I was browsing through the tutorial
So recently I was reading about replacing the Xbox 360's harddrive with a 250GB WD BEKT or other compatible ones. It seemed pretty easy, except I'm not sure if my desktop has a SATA in it. It was purchased 5 years ago, and from my past experience assembling my own computers I remember the harddrive calbe for desktops are the bigger gray ones instead of the red small ones.
I figured it'd be easier if I simply removed my laptop's drive instead of my desktop (fewer steps, don't need to handle the big case, just overly a smaller job). I figured that's a technically sound plan, but I want to check if there's any reason I won't be able to do this on a laptop? Thanks!
You should be able to do it in your laptop if
1) it uses an SATA drive and
2) it will boot from flash or floppy (or CDROM, but you will have to save your drives original firmware to flash or floppy).
As for your old desktop PC, you need to open it up and have a look. SATA hard drive started appearing in 2002-2003. SATA started coming onboard motherboards on/about 2004-2005, though most people still used IDE/PATA at the time. So, you might very well have an SATA connector on that 5 year old motherboard even if you did not use it. Heck, I didn't even use MINE until this year when I went to Windows 7 and upgraded my hard drives from IDE to SATA.
