I am currently trying to find a way to modify my Hitachi Hard Drive so I can make it work with my xbox360. Microsoft has a Security Sector on all of there OEM hard drives that tells the 360 what model, serial number and firm revision the hard drive is and then it checks that info with the hard drives actual info and then allows it to work on the 360. The security Sector is Digitally Signed by Microsoft thus modifying that breaks the signature. However TheSpecialist found that modifying the Hard Drives info will allow it to work and he made a tool that modifys this info on Western Digital BEVs model hard drives. I currently have a Hitachi Hard Drive I would like to try messing with and see if I can modify this info to match a security sector I have for my 360. Does anyone know of anyway I would be able to modify this info on a Hitachi HTS541010G9SA00 drive. Please help, this will benefit A LOT of other users out there that are attempting to upgrade there hard drives. Thank you all in advance.

you need special tools to read the SA modules and to be able to modify the hex codes inside the modules to do this one with plus you need to understand Hex and how it works so that you can modify the correct fields

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Iorana Haraharaini

Why not just buy a 2.5" WD drive?

I have tried and it works on Hitachi,Fujitsu and Seagate but I am not at liberty to make a SW for the world to be able to do it...

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.

I am planning on getting a 250gb wd bevs drive when M$ releases the 250gb they have with the forza bundle. but I have a 2.5 100gb drive i wanted to play with in the mean time and was hoping someone could help me out. If you know how to do it can you help me? I was helping TheSpecialist with the hard drive security sector when the 120gb sector came out and am mentioned in the readme file so I am not too bad with this stuff. I have 2 360s and thought this 100gb hitachi would be good for my kids instead of 20gb.

the beauty of the WD is it's simplicity. For HGST it's a bit more complicated.

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.

If I were to dump the drive firmware would you be able to help me without giving too much info and making some other software for it. I would really appreciate it if you could help me out. I could send you my hddss.bin file and the firmware from my drive if you could help me to dump it and such. I would really really really really really really appreciate it. Thank you in advance.