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justh8me
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_ 		18. September 2008 @ 15:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
OK, I thought I saw a program that will let you hook up any sata hard drive to an xbox360. Is that correct?
And can I just by the core system and hook up a hard drive to it, or do I have to buy the one that comes with a hard drive already and swap it out? Thanks in advance!
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element29
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_ 		18. September 2008 @ 16:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I don't see how thats possible without a few modifications because there is no SATA port for the HD to plug into. Only the one sata cord for the dvdrom drive.
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yzrider22
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_ 		18. September 2008 @ 18:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
There's alot more to it than just swapping Drives.Here is a cut and paste.

Make your own Xbox 360 hard drive
Some people may consider the new 120GB Xbox 360 hard drive to be a complete rip-off a little expensive at $179 considering that you can buy a 2.5? external drive of the same capacity for under $100. And Microsoft?s justification for the price? "I know it sounds expensive to a lot of consumers but we are comparable to those types of drives and also we have to go through a lot more testing and security," said Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg. Anyway, Xbox-Scene has a good guide on how you can make your own working 120GB hard drive for the Xbox 360 at a much lower price.

First you will need to get hold of a Western Digital Scorpio BEVS-LAT drive (it?s not too expensive and it?s the only drive that is known to work). Next you need to download Hddhacker v0.90 (built by The Specialist) and dump your hddss.bin firmware file from your 20GB Xbox drive onto a floppy disk by attaching the drive to a SATA controller (most modern motherboards should be fine), and then flash this file to the new 120GB drive. After this your drive should be ready to go. For full details on this procedure, read the guide on Xbox-Scene. This is one area where the PS3 can clearly show its superiority, as users can add their own 2.5? drive without voiding the warranty. Which reminds me, the warranty on both the new drive and the Xbox will probably be useless after doing this, so keep that in mind!
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