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How to turn an external drive into and Xbox HDD (phat)
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Today i will be showing you how to turn a normal USB External HDD into a Sata HDD for your jtag

What you will need
1. Any External Drive
2. A normal xbox 360 hdd

Steps
1. You will first need to take apart your xbox 360 hdd

2.Take apart your external drive and remove the sata hdd from the casing.
3.

4. Goto settings and format your new drive

If you need any help just post on the topic thanks for watching

Why Do This?
Much faster speeds
Dont have to buy a drive
Some plugins ect run better off hdd than an external

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Anyone else find this useful?
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Punchinzombies wrote Anyone else find this useful?


Yes thank you very helpful

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Very helpful.
I was thinking about upgrading my 120 gig to a bigger one.
I read some posts that you can use any 2.5 sata,but never saw any thing concrete.
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Does this work for all external HDD or only the western digital scorpio series?
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UH7 wrote Does this work for all external HDD or only the western digital scorpio series?
The one i used in the video was a 250 G segate portable drive i assume any sata drive should work
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ok thanks, il give my Hitachi drive a go
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already knew this but nice tutorial
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UH7 wrote ok thanks, il give my Hitachi drive a go
Post back with your results so i could possible make a list of usable drives even though i would assume all drives should work
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Punchinzombies wrote Today i will be showing you how to turn a normal USB External HDD into a Sata HDD for your jtag

What you will need
1. Any External Drive
2. A normal xbox 360 hdd

Steps
1. You will first need to take apart your xbox 360 hdd

2.Take apart your external drive and remove the sata hdd from the casing.
3.

4. Goto settings and format your new drive

If you need any help just post on the topic thanks for watching

Why Do This?
Much faster speeds
Dont have to buy a drive
Some plugins ect run better off hdd than an external

nice tut for hdd keep it up
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