salvaging xbox hard drives

salvage junkie · 01-30-2005, 02:46 PM

Hi all, I recieved a couple of hard drives from a buddy who upgraded his xbox drives, he said thet I would have to do something to the drives so I could use them in a pc. Google is giving me a headache trying to find this out. Any advice or even where to look?
thanks

salvage junkie · 01-30-2005, 02:52 PM

As an afterthought i should tell you that I don't have an xbox, just a pc.

Matrix-D · 01-30-2005, 03:03 PM

stumped me there...

IBMan · 01-30-2005, 03:20 PM

plug it in as a slave(if theres any jumpers) and run a windows XP cd and try formating it.

ekÆsine · 01-30-2005, 04:20 PM

you have to unlock your xbox hard disks on the xbox console before using it in your computer. these are some links about it. I saw a tutorial on how to to unlock an 8gb seagate xbox drive, forgot the link. search google for more info on xbxox hard drive unlocking

http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lock-hdd.php

http://www.xbox-linux.org/Hard_Disk_Hotswap_HOWTO

01-30-2005, 02:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
salvage junkie Newb Techie Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2	salvaging xbox hard drives Hi all, I recieved a couple of hard drives from a buddy who upgraded his xbox drives, he said thet I would have to do something to the drives so I could use them in a pc. Google is giving me a headache trying to find this out. Any advice or even where to look? thanks

01-30-2005, 03:20 PM	#4 (permalink)
IBMan Monster Techie Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,087	plug it in as a slave(if theres any jumpers) and run a windows XP cd and try formating it. __________________ Server: AMD Athlon 4000+ @ 2.4 GHz 4096 MB RAM 40 GB HDD Dual Mirrored 500 GB HDDs DVD-ROM Drive Windows Server 2003 x64 R2 SP2

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01-30-2005, 02:52 PM	#2 (permalink)
salvage junkie Newb Techie Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2	As an afterthought i should tell you that I don't have an xbox, just a pc.

01-30-2005, 03:03 PM	#3 (permalink)
Matrix-D Newb Techie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 39	stumped me there...

01-30-2005, 04:20 PM	#5 (permalink)
ekÆsine Wizard Techie Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,940	you have to unlock your xbox hard disks on the xbox console before using it in your computer. these are some links about it. I saw a tutorial on how to to unlock an 8gb seagate xbox drive, forgot the link. search google for more info on xbxox hard drive unlocking http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lock-hdd.php http://www.xbox-linux.org/Hard_Disk_Hotswap_HOWTO