Introducción
This guide will show you how to replace your Xbox's hard drive.
Qué necesitas
-
-
Use a metal spudger to pry off the four rubber feet.
The screw is in the outside corner. If you pry up only the half of the foot on that side, you can easily remove the (very long) screw, and the foot will stay attached.
Ah I always used to damage the feet.
-
-
-
You can either remove the labels or simply feel for the screw holes through the labels and then cut or punch a hole through them.
It is also easy to feel for the screw hole with your finger and then cut a hole, or punch it out with the tip of the Torx driver to reveal the screw.
-
-
-
-
Pull both the hard drive data ribbon cable and the power cable straight up from the hard drive.
Remember that the new drive will only work if it has been properly prepared, and the Xbox has been modified.
there is NO way to legally replace the xbox hard drive. it is LOCKED to the motherboard and the xbox will not boot to the OS or make it past the BIOS if the HDD is not the one that came with it from the factory. you MUST use a mod chip and “home brew” to do a HDD swap and expect it to work
Could you point me to a good tutorial on using a modding an original Xbox? All I want to do is swap an HDD in original Xbox with another original Xbox HDD because I want my saved game data. Any way to figure this out? Seems like modding is a !&&* of a burden.
Can i replace the original hard drive with new one
-
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
Cancelar: No complete esta guía.
59 personas más completaron esta guía.
Equipo
Cal Poly, Team 18-2, Maness Fall 2009 Miembro de Cal Poly, Team 18-2, Maness Fall 2009
CPSU-MANESS-F09S18G2
3 Miembros
24 Guías creadas
18 comentarios
can you replace the hard drive with one that has windows or linux on it and run windows or linux from the hdd and turn the xbox into a media pc or is the xbox OS not in the hdd but in a chip on the motherboard that cannot be overridden so that it boots from the hdd
NO, you cannot.
kaos_engr is wrong. You CAN run Linux on a modded Xbox. Although since you also asked about REPLACING the hard drive: I don’t know whether you have to use the original hard drive or can use any IDE hard drive. But Linux is apparently possible on a modded Xbox. See here, and there are more resources on the web too, just search the web for “original Xbox linux”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Linux
As for Windows on an original Xbox. I’m sure I read once that proper drivers wouldn’t exist. Because nobody would have written them. Certainly Microsoft didn’t want you putting Windows on your Xbox. However I just came across this video of someone allegedly running Windows 98 on an Xbox. I’m not sure if they’re somehow virtualising Windows using Linux or something. Maybe have a look and figure out what’s going on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erk_XE-D...
But Linux on an Xbox does look possible, IF you have a modded Xbox.
D C -
http://www.ebay.com/gds/How-To-Determine...
Utilize the information on this website to determine what Xbox version you have so you know what replacement parts to look for.
The repairability score varies on the model...
greetings- we have an Xbox One that is out of warranty. The Xbox wont turn on. We have replaced the power brick & it still wont turn on. We think the hard drive crashed. Orange light is on on power brick. Should we try to replace the hard drive?
Is it an original Xbox, Xbox 360 or the latest Xbox One? Very poor naming of the consoles on Microsoft’s part. Most used to call the original 2001 released Xbox the Xbox 1 after the Xbox 360 was released and now there’s the Xbox One (spelled out) and Xbox One S and Xbox One X. (Argh!!)
Power brick (external power supply) was on the Xbox 360 or Xbox One not the original Xbox. The original Xbox’s power supply was self-contained.
This Xbox Hard Drive Replacement Guide mentions nothing about the ATA security employed by the original Xbox’s firmware that prevents easily swapping drives between different consoles. Without first unlocking and relocking the HDD to the new console’s motherboard (HDDKey), you cannot just swap HDDs from one to another.
This Xbox Hard Drive Replacement Guide mentions nothing about the ATA security employed by the original Xbox’s firmware that prevents easily swapping drives between different consoles. Without first unlocking and relocking the HDD to the new console’s motherboard (HDDKey), you cannot just swap HDDs from one to another.
kaos_engr - May 9
best comment so far swapping any xbox hard drive may it be the original xbox, xbox 360 etc is not as simple as this guide made it to be.
That's because the guide is incomplete. You need a soft nodded Xbox and y splitter cable for hot swapping
Missing important step(s): How to prepare the new HDD so that the XBOX is working again. Or does an empty HDD is enough?
How do you remove the non-ribbon cables from the hard drive? Not all of us know how to work these plastic caps :/
Tengo el error 8 como puedo solucionarlo
there is NO way to legally replace the xbox hard drive. it is LOCKED to the motherboard and the xbox will not boot to the OS or make it past the BIOS if the HDD is not the one that came with it from the factory. you MUST use a mod chip and “home brew” to do a HDD swap and expect it to work
What size of hard drive do you need for the replacement
can i double the hhds in one xbox?
I would highly advise watching this youtube video for the software side of things. You CANNOT just replace the HDD on a stock system. It must at least be softmodded so that you can run software to clone the existing data and to set the HDD KEY.
This video does a great job of covering the software side of things, as well as showing how to do this with a SATA drive.
