Which larger replacement harddisk is everyone using in there Xbox?

Km

I'm using a Western Digital 120 GB 7200 RPM drive. Maxtors and Seagates are also good. From past experience, I would stay away from IBM.

The 7200 RPMs does make the drive get quite a bit hotter than the stock drive (at least in my case), so you may want to see if you can find a 5400 RPM drive instead.

You may not necessarily need 120 GB, but I would recommend at least 80 GB. There is no sense going any higher than 160 GB since only up to 160 GB (or there abouts) can be used/seen.

are you sure xbox can recognize 160 GB??

i think 133gb is the biggest an xbox can see.

just bunged an old seagate 60gb in mine works nicely

Are you guys just simply "swapping" the hard drives or is there any formatted required beforehand for the xbox to recognize it?

You just have to write all zeros to it (on your PC), then use a hex editor to write some hex bytes to create the partition tables (on your PC), then put it in your XBox and format E and F using Evo-X and FTP.

If you buy one new it already has zeros on it. zeroing a used one can take 9 hours or more.

The big question I wondered was whether someone could copy the xbox hd after games are put on it by putting it in their computer. But never saw an answer for this & even then, it would be questionable if the pc could read the format.

XBox cannot read a 160 HD (oh it can but only sees the max it can handle)

If you get a brand new hard drive, you may want to check it with a hex editor to verify that it really is all zeros. My brand new Western Digital had all zeros in the beginning of the drive, but as I kept scrolling down, there were some sectors which were not all zeros, so I zeroed it out to play safe.

Mine took over 18 hours to zero out!! :(

what's the purpose of putting a bigger HD in your xbox? What's the point?

so that you can copy games/movies etc to the hard drive and run them from there. you dont need DVD-R or any discs to play games

My big issue is that you can't defrag it (maybe you can now). Not being able to do that means that in the future, games are going to slow down quite a bit.

I was thinking the same thing handyguy, thats bad, hopefully, someone will mae a defreger, there a program, that can configure harddrives for X-box

www.psxcopyworld.com has them