Hello friends, if you are like me then you know the benefits of flashing your Xbox 360 disc drive. It's a cool thing to do, but up until this point you couldn't find anything reliable to base yourself off of. Let me start by saying this process is very long and consumes more time than you initially think it would because you're a total noob trying to get free and/or back-ups of your games. So let me start this journey by saying the flashing is possible with the right equipment (not any device you have to pay for either). The only thing I had to obtain was a light switch (explained in video below).
I used two tutorials on how to flash my drive, which is the model dg-16d2s. Which looks like it doesnt have enough info and only plays a short video that says put disc in xbox.SO HOW ON EARTH DO WE BURN AND CREATE COPIES OF THESE GAMES?!I have come to the conclusion I need the Xbox 360 drive to register on my PC in order to use its specs and burn from its disc.
Quoted fromImportant When you format a storage device, all of the informationsaved on that device is erased and cannot be recovered. Make sure thatyou either do not want the information stored on that device or havebacked up the information to another device before you continue.To format a storage device.
Start your Xbox 360 console without a discin the tray. Go to the Settings hub, and choose System. Select Storage. Highlight the storage device that you want to format, andthen press the Y button on your controller.In this case you want to select your Xbox Hard Drive.
Set the “dip” switch on the back of the Xbox 360 hard drive to “Slave” with the tip of your finger. Remove the power cord from the computer. Unscrew the front or side panel with the Phillips screwdriver. Remove the screws from the side of two empty drive bays with the Phillips screwdriver. Pull the two drive trays out of the drive bays. For Xbox 360 on the Xbox 360, a GameFAQs message board topic titled 'any way to fix a corrupted Hard Drive?'
Select Format. You receive the following message:This will delete all content on this device. Do you want to continue?. Choose Yes to format the storage device. If you are asked to enter your console serial number, enter your number, andthen select Done. This step helps guard against accidental formatting.The console serial number is located on the back of the console andbehind the oval door on the front of your console.What this won't deleteAs mentioned above, this will clear the Hard Drive, but not your Xbox Live profile, which is stored on the Xbox Live servers. You will be able to use your profile on another Xbox if you sign in using your username & password.What this will deleteAll games, music, video, personalized settings and save games (unless they were previously transferred to another drive or the cloud.
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There are several options available to format an Xbox 360 hard drive. Use the format option available from the 360's menu, detailed at. According to that article formatting in this way:When you format a storage device, all of the information saved on that device is erased and cannot be recovered. An Xbox 360 hard drive is just that, a hard drive. This means that if you really wanted to be thorough you could dismantle the Xbox hard drive assembly and format the drive by connecting it to a computer.
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This method would provide more options in terms of ways to format and the intensity of the format.Technical Disclaimer: I have not done this and don't know how hard it would be to get a drive back to a state that an Xbox 360 would accept. Having said that, I do know that there are descriptions of how to do so other places on the Internet.As to the issue of decoupling your account, Xbox Live accounts are not directly associated with one Xbox in particular. What this means is that if you delete a profile and it's associated data, as would happen in a complete reformat, the hard drive no longer contains any of that account's information.