If you don’t have access to older hardware, take a look in your BIOS. Put your hard drive SATA-mode to IDE so your computer easily recognizes the drive when connected to PC. A long SATA cable to connect Xbox 360 drive (50 cm or more)įlashing is real difficult on modern hardware, so before starting, if possible, get hold of hardware from 2008 – 2015. Prerequisites: - Hardware from 2008 – 2015 / A spare computer/hard drive you can set to IDE-mode in BIOS

Make sure to read this guide thoroughly and follow the steps in the video I link to very carefully and you should be fine.

Note: I am not responsible for any damages you cause to your own hardware. I strongly suggest you watch the guide I link to in this article instead of trying to rely on this guide alone, as my guide will not suffice. You can refer to this guide later on for some extra help. This is not intended to be an in-depth guide, just a way for you to know some things beforehand before starting your flashing journey.

Remember to share this if this guide helped you out!īefore starting, this guide is made for people like me, who don’t want to buy things online to flash Xbox drives, but to use your Xbox and only a sata cable and nothing else. So I thought I'd share it down here in Reddit to help new people who want to flash out. I spent two hours writing documentation on my journey and what I wish I knew before I started flashing and boiled it down to an article. I specifically created this account and joined this community to post this, as flashing drives in 2022 caused me about 16 hours of headaches and research before I finally got it right.

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