Xbox 360 E 4GB - 500GB HDDHackr Upgrade

Nix McRetro // 26th April 2020 // Guides, Microsoft

What feels like 500 years ago now, I had an Xbox 360 to play Burnout Revenge. I picked up a brand-new Xbox 360 from my local EB Games… Yeeeep! That’s how long ago it was, the darned thing was brand new!

This particular Xbox 360 E was the 4GB model, meaning it had 4GB of onboard flash storage. The hard-drive experiment was separate: I prepared a compatible Western Digital 500GB 2.5-inch SATA drive with HDDHackr and a 500GB Xbox 360 security sector so the console would recognise it as an internal Xbox HDD. I wasn’t turning the 4GB storage into 500GB, nor creating one giant 504GB volume. The added HDD was its own storage device.

Xbox 360 E 4GB
Lot / date: 1429X
Model: 1538
Console serial: 012614742908

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