3CorsaMeal
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my mates xbox dun goofed up yesterday.
won't pick up his hard drive basically, says unformatted when you go to memory under the setting menu.
This is his 4th xbox 360 to break  i've only ever bought one of each era of xbox and never had any of them break 
is there a way to recover his saved games etc?
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adiohead
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might be. When I went from 20gb to 120gb I used a cable off ebay to transfer the data on my PC and then onto the new drive.
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3CorsaMeal
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he did that imo
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3CorsaMeal
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exactly that in fact, kept saying he had problems with the cable
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adiohead
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did he back it up before fiddling with it?
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3CorsaMeal
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i don't know, where do you backup to?
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adiohead
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if he got the cable from ebay then it should have come with a DVD full of dodgy software. I'm pretty sure one of the programs backs it up
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3CorsaMeal
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i did mine recently, as i just got the newer xbox, i've already forgotten how it backed up
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Nath
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Wait, Xbox's break?!?11!!11!!??!
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Brett
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Doesn't sound like the xbox itself is broken. If he's been dicking around with it anyway then it's likely his fault.
With regards to trying to save the data, probably best to try the cable along with xplorer360 or xport360 and see if they can read it. Otherwise just bite the bullet, format it and don't dick around in future
EDIT: Depending how desperate he is to save the data, there is another way too, which would involve opening the HDD case and removing the SATA HDD inside and sticking it into a PC/laptop.
[Edited on 09-05-2011 by loafofbrett]
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adiohead
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xport360 is what I used!
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Brett
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quote:
Originally posted by adiohead
xport360 is what I used!
I prefered it to xplorer360 myself, seemed to crash less. Both are a bit unstable tho.
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3CorsaMeal
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i download xplorer360 yesterday, plugged his harddrive in, but didn't know what i was looking for.
wasn't very much there, something about partition 1 & 2, and a couple of folders with nothing in them
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Brett
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So you can view the drive contents then? Likelyhood is it's salvagable then. I'm not holding your hand through the process tho, so you can google about the xbox file system layout.
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3CorsaMeal
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hi
when we try to format the harddrive on the xbox menu it doesn't do anything.
do we have to format it with a computer or perform any with a paperclip?
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