Xbox 360 seagate HDD

[roby3493]

Hi, I've found this awesome forum by searching on google and I decided to post a question here, for you people more expert than me in HDD. I bought a month ago a seagate momentus 250gb hard drive and I tried to make it working for the 360. I followed the guide that said to use a serial port and edit hdd info with it but when I press CTRL+Z my hdd goes in busy mode (status: LED:000000CC/CE).
I also tried to do that without the PCB mounted on but the result is the same -.-.

Is there anyone who can help me somehow ?


Thanks in advance

Roberto

[Vulcan]

IMHO you should ask the people who gave you the "guide" which you are following, for advice. We don't know what commands you were told to enter, nor what response the drive gave for each command. Can you supply a link to the web page with that "guide"? Do you have the full terminal log, captured as you entered each command via the serial port?

Those basic symptoms suggest that you have somehow damaged the firmware (or the "private" data in the SA which the firmware relies on) . If you are lucky, then the people who produced that guide will have helped people who followed it, and then had problems like yours. I hope that they had a big warning, saying that their procedure had risks!

My guess is that buying a new HDD may be cheaper than you using a DR professional to try to fix whatever damage the commands from that "guide" have caused.

[roby3493]

Dunno if I can post external links, btw this is the guide: h**p://darthcircuit*com/2012/07/05/hacking-a-seagate-hard-drive-to-work-in-the-xbox-360/.

Replace '*' with '.(dot)'


Thanks for your help

[Vulcan]

Thanks - notice that the author of that page says:

[...] you probably will kill your hard drive if you are not very careful. I take no responsibility for what you do to your hard drive. This is in no way a complete tutorial, nor can I guarantee that this will work for you.

So obviously you saw that following his advice was risky... In some of the comments, I see pingbacks from people's blogs where following this "guide" has killed their drives.

If you want any advice about what may be possible, then you will need to post the terminal log, captured at the time when you were entering the commands via the serial port, showing those commands and the drive's responses. However I confirm my earlier guess that you have likely damaged your drive's firmware beyond sensible economic repair, although technically, an (expensive) fix may be possible by an experienced DR professional, with the right tools & experience, depending on what your terminal log shows...

[roby3493]

Listen, the drive WORKS, if I format it with NTFS file system it shows up in the computer and I can make transfers, copy cut paste etc...

The terminal log is just this:
I hit CTRL+Z (first phase in the guide) then:

ASCII Diag Mode

F3 T> (Now I should enter the next command (#) to change the SN) but

LED:000000CE Faddr: (numbers and letters)

Any suggest?

I repeat, the drive works if formatted with NTFS or FAT32 file system.

[Vulcan]

Listen, the drive WORKS

I don't give time here for free, to get that attitude from people who are asking for help!

If you had explained that politely & clearly at the beginning, this would have been a different conversation. Good luck and goodbye.

[dick]

Maybe you/the turorial author are using the wrong command set?
What is the exact model and series of your drive?

edit: Ah just noticed the above post. Well if people want help it always pays to post the whole truth rather than post it bit by bit. Saves everybodys time!

[Vulcan]

Well if people want help it always pays to post the whole truth rather than post it bit by bit. Saves everybodys time!

Agreed - and someone starting a reply with "listen", with the arrogance which that tone implies, is guaranteed to make me stop helping! Perhaps the OP will be lucky and someone else may give him some time - but perhaps not...

[loki]

Also this post is not related to data recovery either

Loki

[northwind]

Actually, the solution to this problem could be EXTREMELY easy and I'm quite sure what the problem is, but now...