360's HDD/Memory can be READ & WRITE now~~~

mousemat - did you do the HD or memory card method? I'm tempted as I've got some great shots I'd love to download but not sure I can beothered with the hassle and risk. How long did it take you?
 
Psyk said:
No it's not but unfortunately mod chips are illegal regardless of what they are used for.
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It's still a bit of a grey area really. Besides, you don't necessarily need a modchip. I'm not going to go into it any further though because I'll probably just get my post erased.
 
Sagalout said:
mousemat - did you do the HD or memory card method? I'm tempted as I've got some great shots I'd love to download but not sure I can beothered with the hassle and risk. How long did it take you?
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Didnt take very long at all. 8 screws on the Xbox HDD, unplug the big black connector and plug in a SATA cable and power then plug it into your PC, Should pick it up.

Download Xplorer360 from http://www.360gamesaves.com/index.php and you'll need a full version of WinHex too.

I'm stealing the following from the guide I used (I dont wanna post a link incase it's somehow agaisnt the rules)

open Xplorer, and go to Drive, Open, Harddrive or memcard.

Go to Partition3 (partition 2 on a memory card), then content, then the folder thats NOT a bunch of 00's, then 4D5307D1, then 00000001, you will see profile.sav, right click on it and extract it somewhere.

the extraction part is done, now for getting the images out....

Now that you have your profile.sav.. its time to get your images out.. the original way i figured it out was using any hex editor, the pictures are plain jpgs, stored in the sav.. so if you look for the standard jpeg header "FFD8FFE000104A464946" and go from there all the way to an ending FFD9 with lots of 00's after it, you have the entire JPG.. copy all of that and paste into a new file and save as a jpg..

but for the rest of you not so technically adept with a hex editor, i found a program to do it automatically, untill one is written just for this job..

you need a "full" version of WinHex..

simply open the .sav in winhex, go to tools, disk tools, then file recovery by type

set it to extensive byte level search, set it to JPEG, and set an output directory, then press OK

Done! it will tell you how many images it extracted, go to your output folder and enjoy..
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Takes a few minutes at best, It won be long before a 3rd party app is created which automatically extracts the images.
 
Ultra_Extreme said:
I cant afford hi def and it looks spot on thru a normal telly, no way worth 1k imo just for slight 360 visual improvment, maybe ill just plug it thru my monitor.
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Not just for the Xbox360, but for everything really. Better picture, new technology, more connections, greater support over the next 2-4 years.
 
Memphis said:
MouseMat mate, am I right in saying one screw is under the Microsoft logo?
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Yes, so there goes the warrenty. Better than a £210 console tho...

Also on the link posted by Sagalout, I only took mine as far as sliding the HDD down a few inches (you have to remove the top metal cover), you dont need to actually remove it or remove the metal casing from the plastic back.
 
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