yuppicide Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 If I buy the hard drive adapter without the drive I can get a bigger drive cheaper. I've seen people put in up to 1TB drives! Will I still be able to access live if I do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammR25 Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Will I still be able to access live if I do this? No Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDW Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Will I still be able to access live if I do this? No Why not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammR25 Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 It's a console modification. MS checks all consoles on live from time to time and bans the ones that have mods in them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDW Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 It's a console modification. MS checks all consoles on live from time to time and bans the ones that have mods in them. Yes, but how would they even tell? Is there some kind of file on the official hard drives that flags the xbox? Sorry for asking questions, I personally do not have a xbox 360. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Here is some information related to the question. I don't have any personal experience with upgrading hard drives on the 360 , based on the second link, it sounds like you do run the risk of getting banned when taking a modded 360 online. Doesn't state how though. Maybe it's by HDD size. Like if they see you have a 350GB drive...BANNED. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090219202223AAVEAaF http://www.sdmods.com/faq.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted December 16, 2009 Author Share Posted December 16, 2009 (edited) Well, technically it's not a mod. I'd probably just put in a 120GB to play it safe. It's not like I'm doing it to pirate stuff. I just want to save money. Edited December 16, 2009 by yuppicide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 They can tell if you don't have an approved HD...hell, they can even tell if you have a 3rd party memory card Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted December 16, 2009 Author Share Posted December 16, 2009 Grr to them then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seob Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 look here But i'm getting a little confused. I'm also reading they are banning unofficial memory cards. Maybe the ban is only for the memory cards. But i would guess they could ban you when using a unofficial hdd because you have to flash the hdd firmware in order to get it to work with the xbox360. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Video Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Well, it would be easy enough to detect, all they have to do is poll the system and ask what size drive it has, the answer (legitimately) can only be 20, 60, 80, or 120 (at the moment) I don't know how they would detect alternate memory cards, as long as they work in the system...and are of proper size. And yeah, I'd agreee, technically, a different (removeable part) is not a mod....though to my understanding,don't you have to have the system moded to even talk to a third party drive? Anyhow, if not, then just use a smaller official drive o get onlihne with, and the bigger one to store your crap and use when not online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted December 24, 2009 Author Share Posted December 24, 2009 Nope.. the answer can also be 250GB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brojamfootball Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 (edited) Yeah, it's one of those classic deals where they make you pay ten times what something is worth because it's proprietary(visions of the sugarplum Apple computer legacy dance in my head). Microsoft could make it possible to use your own off-the-shelf hard drive and still verify that you're unmodded if they wanted to, but then they couldn't force you to buy tiny drives for ridiculous prices. Edited December 24, 2009 by brojamfootball Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Video Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Nope.. the answer can also be 250GB. Oh, there's a 250 now? Cool,hadn't seen that one yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 I looked for the 250GB, but haven't seen one in the wild. I didn't look too hard, though. Sears never got them in. It's limited edition I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 I haven't heard of any bans yet for modded hard drives, but I wouldn't trust it. Every hard drive has a unique serial number, and people are cloning these drives to make duplicates that match a legitimate one. Someday, Microsoft is going to probably decide to ban hard drives that are on multiple consoles. There shouldn't be hundreds of hard drives with the same unique serial number on each. They could easily ban them all. Well, technically it's not a mod. I'd probably just put in a 120GB to play it safe. It's not like I'm doing it to pirate stuff. I just want to save money. Technically, it is a mod. A legitimate Xbox 360 hard drive has been opened up and modified by replacing it's guts with a larger hard drive. It's a modification and is unapproved and goes against Xbox Live's terms of service, putting anyone that does it at risk of being banned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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