Wookie said:
gdavies said:
personally try scan.co.uk
About the same price as ebuyer, but the postage is more expensive. Any reason to choose Scan over eBuyer?
just had pretty good experiences with them in the past
gdavies said:
but you will hav to flash a drive image to any hdd you buy
Why?
an xbox hdd is not a standard fat32 or ntfs format it is done in a set way to stop people just putting in any old hdd the biggest you can put in so far is 250gb. to give you an idea here is some info
Drive structure on the Xbox 360 hard drives:
Drive contents:
Address Length (bytes) Contains
0x0000 8192 Null (0x00)
0x2000 68 Plain text hard disk info
0x2044 24 Static Binary Info (doesn't change console to console)
0x205C 256 Dynamic Binary Data (changes from console to console - possibly encrypted serial number of console)
0x2202 2 Size of following PNG file
0x2204 2754 MS logo in PNG format (aka hddss.bin),
Partitions:
Address Description
0x80000 Cache Partition (aka partition 0)
0x80080000 Unknown
0x120EB0000 Xbox Backwards compatibility drive (aka Xbox1 emulator / partition 2)
0x130EB0000 Main Xbox 360 Partition (aka partition 3)
there is tools you can use to sort it pretty readily available on the internet