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Does a banned Xbox affect the HDD?

  • 16-12-2009 5:22pm
    #1
    scange01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33 ✭


    Just wondering, if an Xbox is banned, does it affect the HDD? Can that drive be reset and used in another xbox per say? Wanna try and get a cheap banned elite and upgrade my HDD, can I transfer my content over no bother?

    Is there anything I should look out for?


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  • #2
    TouchingVirus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,584 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus


    Good luck finding a banned console for sale with a 120gig hard drive. Anybody who knows about the banning in any sort of detail other than "I'm banned" knows that the hard drive itself is not touched. The console's ability to sign content (save games, profiles) is removed, so if you load a savegame or a profile it is no longer signed. And when you move the hard drive to another console it will refuse to read unsigned content, telling you it's corrupt.

    So they would be better off selling a banned console on it's own, and then the hard drive seperately for 70 euro or so or just keeping it and getting a new arcade xbox and using their old hard drive.

    Once you acquire another hard drive use a transfer kit (call Microsoft or ask for one around) to transfer over your old stuff from your 20 or 60gig.


  • #3
    tommylaws
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭tommylaws


    With a banned console u will never be able to use a HDD on it again i.e not being able to save games and install games to any HDD attached to it.


  • #4
    TouchingVirus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,584 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus


    tommylaws wrote: »
    With a banned console u will never be able to use a HDD on it again i.e not being able to save games and install games to any HDD attached to it.

    No, you're completely wrong.

    Banned consoles can use hard drives just fine. You can create new profiles, create new save games, load old save games. The only thing you can't do is install games to the hard drive.

    Anything you load/create on a hard drive while it's connected to a banned console won't work if you connect it to another console.

    Remember, the only changes were to the console when it gone banned, the hard drive works, it has not been bricked or rendered inoperable.

    These restrictions can be gotten around with a bit of solder, wire and some mad skills but that's a discussion for Console Modding.


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