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Here are three step by step tutorials. One for those who used their 20GB hdd's in their laptops or PC's thinking they'll never be able to use them in their XBOX 360's again, the second is for people who still have all their data on their 20GB hdd just want to get the 360 to identify it and finally the last if for those people that created a full drive backup image (which you though stuffed up your drive).You will need the following tools:- WinHex (registered version)- MHDDThese tools can be downloaded here:http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/http://hddguru.com/download/software/mhdd/mhdd32ver4.6iso.ziporhttp://hddguru.com/download/software/mhdd/mhdd32ver4.6archive.zipOnce you download WinHex, install it, register and get a "Specialist" license. Burn the MHDD iso with Nero, ImgBurn, whatever your favorite burning software is. (Alternatively you can get MHDD as an exe and put it on your bootable USB stick)Tutorial 1: Restoring the 20GB HDD to be usable on the 360 from scratch (use this tutorial if you used the HDD for something else and you have deleted all the original xbox 360 data off it)1. Connect your original 20GB drive to the PC.2. Start you PC up and open WinHex3. Select: Tools -> Open Disk (or press F9)4. Select your HDD from the List under "Physical Media"5. Select: Options -> Edit Mode (or press F6)6. Select: In-place Mode (=editable) and press OK7. At the ATTENTION popup message press OK.8. Select: Edit -> Fill Disk Sectors (or press CTRL + L)9. Select radio button: Fill with hex values: 00 and press OK.10. You now get a popup saying: Please note that the inteigry of the partition(s)/file system(s) on "your xbox 360 hdd model here" may be severyly damaged by this operation. Click OK.11. Sit back this will take about 10 minutes to complete.12. Once the erasing completes, you will now need either your original HDDSS.BIN which you should have made with HDDHackr or download a generic 20GB HDDSS.BIN file appropriate to your HDD. I dont think a HDDSS.BIN from a Toshiba / Seagate will work on Fujitsu and vice versa. (I could be wrong)13. Click: File -> Restore Image14. In the file name box type: *.* and press Enter15. Now browse to the directory where your HDDSS.BIN file is and select it and press Open16. You will get a popup image saying: Is this an image with a partition structure. Click: Yes17. You will get a popup image saying: Cauttion: You are in in-place edit mode. Click: OK18. In the "Physical Media" section select your XBOX 360 HDD and click OK19. Set the following options: - Write pattern for damaged source sectors (unselected) - Simulatenous I/O (selected) - Avoid damaged areas. Skip Range (unselected) - Start Sector: 16 - Copy Entire Medium (selected) Click OK20. You now get a popup saying: Please note that the inteigry of the partition(s)/file system(s) on "your xbox 360 hdd model here" may be severyly damaged by this operation. Click OK. If you get a popup saying you're in editmode, just click OK on that too. 21. You get a popup (summary) in the form of a notepad text file, Close it.22. Exit winhex23. Restart the PC booting off the MHDD bootable CD or USB stick. (you may need to make changes in the BIOS to boot off CD or USB stick)24. If MHDD doesn't start automatically for you, or you're using a USB Boot disk type: MHDD and press enter25. MHDD will identify hard drives connected to your PC. for example, for me it identified: 3. FUJITSU MHV2020BH 0093002C NWxxxxxxxxxx 39,067,96726. Enter the number corresponding to your xbox 360 HDD and press Enter. (in my case number 3)27. You will now get to a blue prompt: MHDD> Type: NHPA (and press Enter)28. Do you want to set Native LBA address (y/N)? - type: Y 29. Native Maximum LBA address: 39070079 Continue (y/N)? - type Y (these values will be different on 60GB and 120GB drives)30. You will get the following message: Fail. Try to re-power HDD. Done.31. Unplug the power cable from your xbox 360 hdd32. wait 10 seconds33. Plug the power cable back in.34. Type NHPA (and press Enter)35. Do you want to set Native LBA address (y/N)? - type: Y36. You will get the following message: Working ... Done.37. Now unplug your power and data cables from your xbox 360 HDD (in that order: first power cable, then data cable) and connect the HDD to your xbox 360.38. Go to the system Settings tab -> Memory39. In storage devices you should now see an "Unformatted" hard disk. Select it and press A40. Select format option and press A41. This will delete all content on this device. Do you want to continue ? Select Yes and press A / OK42. Enter your console serial number (can be found in the System Info tab in System Settings)43. Your drive is now formatted and you should see a Hard Drive with 13.9 GB free space Tutorial 2: Removing the HPA without altering data (use this tutorial if your data is still intact however your 360 doesn't see the disk)1. Connect your original 20GB drive to the PC.2. Start your PC up and in your BIOS make sure you select boot from CD first.3. Restart the PC booting off the MHDD bootable CD.4. If MHDD doesn't start automatically for you, or you're using a USB Boot disk type: MHDD and press enter5. MHDD will identify hard drives connected to your PC. for example, for me it identified: 3. FUJITSU MHV2020BH 0093002C NWxxxxxxxxxx 39,067,9676. Enter the number corresponding to your xbox 360 HDD and press Enter. (in my case number 3)7. You will now get to a blue prompt: MHDD> Type: NHPA (and press Enter)8. Do you want to set Native LBA address (y/N)? - type: Y 9. Native Maximum LBA address: 39070079 Continue (y/N)? - type Y (these values will be different on 60GB and 120GB drives) 10. You will get the following message: Fail. Try to re-power HDD. Done.11. Unplug the power cable from your xbox 360 hdd12. wait 10 seconds13. Plug the power cable back in.14. Type NHPA (and press Enter)15. Do you want to set Native LBA address (y/N)? - type: Y16. You will get the following message: Working ... Done.17. Now unplug your power and data cables from your xbox 360 HDD (in that order: first power cable, then data cable) and connect the HDD to your xbox 360.Tutorial 3: Restoring the 20GB HDD from an Xplorer360 backup image (if you made one using Xplorer360)1. Connect your original 20GB drive to the PC and load windows.2. Open up WinHex3. Select: File -> Restore Image4. In the filename box type *.* and press Enter5. Now browse to the directory where you have your "XboxBackup.bin" file which is your Xplorer360 Backup Image.6. Select the bin file. By default its "XboxBackup.bin" and click Open.7. You will get a popup image saying: Is this an image with a partition structure. Click: Yes8. Select your Target Disk under the section "Physical Media", make sure this is your 20GB xbox 360 hdd.9. Set the following options: - Write pattern for damaged source sectors (unselected) - Simulatenous I/O (selected) - Avoid damaged areas. Skip Range (unselected) - Start Sector: 0 - Copy Entire Medium (selected)10. Click OK.11. You now get a popup saying: Please note that the inteigry of the partition(s)/file system(s) on "your xbox 360 hdd model here" may be severyly damaged by this operation. Click OK.12. You get a second popup saying: No backup is made of the sectors you are about to overwrite because of the specified undo limit of 20 MB. Click Ok.13. Now wait, this process should take about 30 - 40 mins or so.14. You now get the popup: 39.067,967 sector(s) successfully copied. Click OK.15. Close WinHex16. Put in the MHDD CD you burnt prior to starting this tutorial.17. Restart the PC booting off that CD (you may need to change your settings in your BiOS)18. If MHDD doesn't start automatically for you, or you're using a USB Boot disk type: MHDD and press enter19. MHDD will identify hard drives connected to your PC. for example, for me it identified: 3. FUJITSU MHV2020BH 0093002C NWxxxxxxxxxx 39,067,96720. Enter the number corresponding to your xbox 360 HDD and press Enter. (in my case number 3)21. You will now get to a blue prompt: MHDD> Type: NHPA (and press Enter)22. Do you want to set Native LBA address (y/N)? - type: Y 23. Native Maximum LBA address: 39070079 Continue (y/N)? - type Y (these values will be different on 60GB and 120GB drives) 24. You will get the following message: Fail. Try to re-power HDD. Done.25. Unplug the power cable from your xbox 360 hdd26. wait 10 seconds27. Plug the power cable back in.28. Type NHPA (and press Enter)29. Do you want to set Native LBA address (y/N)? - type: Y30. You will get the following message: Working ... Done.31. Now unplug your power and data cables from your xbox 360 HDD (in that order: first power cable, then data cable) and connect the HDD to your xbox 360.32. Enjoy