WD1600BEVS 160gb disk only shows 120gb

sambat2000 · Sep 5, 2013

Hi, I have removed the above disk from my Xbox which was a 120gb "clip on" drive and found it is a 160gb WD blue drive. I have initialised the disk. deleted the partition in Win 7, and formatted it but it always shows as a 120gb.
I don't know if MS do something to these drives.
Any ideas on how to get this as a 160gb drive?
Thanks

Loz44 · Sep 5, 2013

There may be a hidden partition, try this:

run DISKPART as admin from a command prompt

>list disk
>select disk (your drive number, don't get this wrong otherwise you could erase the wrong drive)
>clean
>create partition primary
>select partition 1
>assign
>exit

*note you only have to type the first 3 letters of the diskpart commands e.g. cre par pri for create partition primary.
You should now be able to format your disk to its full capacity via windows explorer.

Good luck.

Loz.

dreamerz · Sep 5, 2013

This is an official HDD? got it from someone else? its probably been firmware flashed. You'd need to flashed it back i believe. Google xbox 360 hdd hack.

sambat2000 · Sep 5, 2013

dreamerz :

Yes its an official Xbox HDD. Any idea how to flash it back?
Thanks

sambat2000 · Sep 5, 2013

Loz44 :

Hi Loz
tried your instructions, they ran ok but still comes back as 120gb (111gb usable)
Regards

dreamerz · Sep 5, 2013

What I meant to ask was did you get the hdd/xbox from someone else? Cause they probably just took out the old hdd and replaced it with this, thats what I did anyways. You'd need you go to a one of xbox hack forums for the hdd and find someone who has backed up that specific model hdd's firmware and flash it back.

sambat2000 · Sep 6, 2013

dreamerz :

Hi, looks like when formatting the drive I overwrote the undo.bin file which is needed to restore the full capacity. Having looked into how to re-create the file I have decided to live with the 40gb loss, as I would probably ending up bricking the disk anyway.
Thanks again for your help

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