This for people having problems with their Forza 3 saves after creating a custom HDD. I just finished with my own custom 250GB HDD and it works perfect =D. Now only problem I had was that forza 3 wouldn't load the save (like other people have also mentioned). If your cheap like me or just plain don't to spend that precious $$ for a overpriced memory unit then this little tutorial might be for you. I DON'T KNOW if this will BAN the xbox yet as I've only done it. (If it does it will give me a excuse to mod it hehe).
1. Create your custom hard drive and copy everything from your old partition 3 to the new one.
2. After this is done go into the new HDD with Xplorer and navigate to Partition 3 -> Content -> EBFCD05D81D3715F -> 4D53084D -> 00000001 (this is the folder where forza 3 files are stored and you should know if your in the right folder because you will see a file called ForzaProfile and some other files too like replay, photo ect)
3.Copy all the files inside to a folder somewhere on your computer (to make it easy create a folder on your desktop called forza and place them inside) then delete all the files from the HDD.
4. Place the HDD into the xbox and boot up forza and create a new save game and after this is done shut the xbox down and place the HDD back into the computer.
5. Go into windows open Xplorer and navigate to the same directory as before. There should only be one file in there (ForzaProfile) and copy that to the desktop or another folder but not the same folder where other forza files were copied.
6. Open up Concept Resigner, click open and select the ForzaProfile file that is on the desktop (the one that was just copied over from the HDD) Open up notepad and copy Profile ID and Device ID to it (these are the numbers that are the key to getting this working)
7.Now open any file file from the Forza folder and paste Profile ID and Device ID to the program and click Resign (you must do this to all the files inside to get this working NOTE: the file 'movies' will not open for some reason so just skip it)
8. After all the files have this new Profile ID and Device ID open up Hash Block Calculator and open each files one by one and make sure that under Proper? everything is set to True. If there is a file with False under Proper? then go to tools and select Calculate Hash Blocks.
9. After this is all done copy all the files now back to the HDD in the same directory it came from and place it in the xbox and enjoy your Forza 3 save =D
You might get prompted for a update. This will probably work for any game but don't hold me responsible for your mistakes or if you get banned. I don't know if this will ban you. I hope this works for other people as it did for me.
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Thanks for the TUT. I'll try it when I get home. Unfortunately, when switching from 60 GB to 250 GB, didnt have Wabashman's luck to find everything fine, so gotta to try your method :)
I am swapping HDD just to play Forza 3 (and everytime taking the profile, to get new achivements, from one drive to another)
Thanks Zillions for the effort
Is it possible that the way you transfer it from one HDD to the other may affect the save data? o.0 I used the microsoft migration kit for mine to transfer from 60gb to 250gb and everything works fine including my forza 3 data. It took forever to transfer with the kit, but I was going out anyway so I just left it on. lol
No worries guys, I really wonted my forza to work so I took the time to learn how to and wrote this up. Hope the steps are easy to follow.
No it shouldn't effect the save data, only thing is games lke forza which are a bit more encrypted won't work unless you hack the save to match now current device id and profile id.
I think the Microsoft migration kit does this automatically (well you would hope so anyway) just all behind the scenes so that's why everything works fine when you use it. I wouldn't know but that's my theory.
