can you put an xbox hard drive in a computer?

[chuck taylor]

Does anyone know how to put an xbox hard drive in a computer? I know it is small but I just need the inforo for a school project.

 

[g5orbust]

you, technically, can put the xbox's hard drive in regular computer, as it just uses the normal ATA interface. But, the hard drive cannot be used unless it is totally reformatted.

 

[chuck taylor]

how do I reformat

could anyone give good instructions on how to reformat the xbox seagate hard drive so I can install it in a computer?

 

[g5orbust]

use your windows install disk.

 

[dethangel]

why? you would make your xbox unuseable and the hdd isnt even that big, i could see going the other way (putting a diff hdd in an xbox) but why format the xbox's hdd

and while were on the subject can you just "clone" the xbox's hdd to a larger hdd and install it back in the xbox? (like put a bigger one in the 'box) itd be nice to have 100gb hdd

 

[chuck taylor]

the reason I want to know is I have 9 xbox hard drives because I have replaced them with bigger hard drives 120 gb and I would like to use the ones I have to place games on. yes you can copy your hard drive to another search the net for the info not really hard at all.

 

[anarchy]

There is a detailed tutorial on this site. Quite nice, but for linux...

http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/docs/hdextractpassword.html

 

[bucemdown320]

this doesnt help.....i dont hav a modded xbox, and mah xbox is ****ed up....i need help WITHOUT the actual xbox!

 

[satelliteFusion]

did anyone ever look at the hard drive

it says at the bottom of the drive to use diskwizard a free download from seagate's website

 

[killians45]

um, you can't just format an xbox HDD... it has to be unlocked (locked via firmware to bios). Goto this site:

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

look around if this isn't exactly what you need or goto llama.com

I'll look around for alternative ways without an xbox, but not sure if its possible....

I think the homebrew software method does it with OUT need of a password.