Modded Xbox Compatible HD's

breakdown84

Can anybody out there give me an idea specificaly which 750GB Hard Drives are compatible with a modded xbox via an Xtender (which i have) because it 's like $569 to get one and have it installed off a site and that's sounds a little pricey to me.

kryyst

Last I checked xbox didn't support oversized drives past around 250 gigs.

Zuntar

My friend just put a 320G drive in his sons Xbox with like 70ish games on it. I am not sure what he did to make this happen though. I know it was a 320, cuz I'm the one he traded with!!!

kryyst

Like I said I haven't checked it out in a while I have a 170 in mine and I'm not planning on upgrading it again so I stopped checking what the current BIOS's allowed for. At the time I put mine in 250 was max.

yagga

kryyst wrote: »

Last I checked xbox didn't support oversized drives past around 250 gigs.

I put a 320GB WD drive into mine and it was perfectly recognizing all 320GB. I have a 1.6 version (just the system) with the Executor 3 chip.

Now, my buddy after me got a 1.6b version (the system and that stupid racing game) and got the Xenium chip. He bought a 250GB (or was it 200?) Seagate drive and his doesn't recognize the whole thing, somewhere around 70-75% I think. I don't know why.

I kind of was planning on putting a bigger drive in (say 500-750) when I see a reasonable price, but I'm not sure it will be able to read it, plus I think that a couple of the manufacturers quit making EIDE drives at 750, but I'm not positive. Then I wonder if sata drives somehow can be used... Okay okay, this paragraph is about me, but maybe the first two were useful? I'm kind of curious about this too, as I said I want to upsize it, too.

kryyst

You can get an EIDE to SATA convert but that converts the whole chain since all the ones I've seen plug directly into the eide port of the motherboard. There probably are devices that plug into the sata hdd but I haven't seen them.