Planty02
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Registered: 5th Mar 05
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OK guys, I'm thinking of upgrading the hard drive in my xbox, but rather than buying a new microsoft one, I've seen tutorials on opening up the original HDD casing and replacing the original drive with a larger capacity one.
Does anyone have any experience with such an upgrade?? any ideas if the drive requires any special configuration before installation?? or can I simply format the drive using the xbox dashboard/system menu (then restore my data from a USB stick)
Tutorial Video
Upgrade Hard Drive
Thanks in advance chaps 
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Kurt
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Registered: 23rd Oct 05
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I have a hd caddy here.. reckon i could transfer files with that and my laptop
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All Torque
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Registered: 17th Nov 05
Location: Milton Keynes Drives: Ford Focus TDCi
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Do you actually use your 360 enough to need to do that? 
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Ren
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Here is a guide on how to upgrade from a 20GB to a 120GB. You can't go higher as the signature file will only recognise 120GB. Basically if you put a 300GB one in, it will still show as and only allow 120GB.
Download the 120gb signature file - use Google to find the hddss.bin
Here is the guide for it as well. www.mfg.me.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=4205
Hope that helps you out!
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Planty02
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Pete, yes I do as you can now install games to your HDD which makes loading them far quicker AND makes the console much quieter 
Thanks Ren, thats a great help. Some sites talk about using 200 or even 400gb hard drives though. Might have a look if theres some kind of crack out there 
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LeeM
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Registered: 26th Sep 05
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i still have 14gb left on my 20gb drive 
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