**HACKING YOUR 360 WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY**


Step #1

Find out what drive you have.




Step #2

Open the casing.

Step 1:

Take the tub your spindle of disc's came in and cut a bit from the side of it and put it over the console as shown.
Mark out where the holes are...



... then make it into a key like this. the tabs need to be about 1cm long.



Do the same for the other side and you'll get two xbox 360 case opening keys that look like these...



Step 2:

Open the front of the console as normal and put a bit of newspaper or something inside the case to hold the front open a bit,
then insert the key, push with a bit of force and you should hear it click and the case will open....



... repeat for the other side and you're done!




Now Opening The 360

With a few simple tools we were able to open the 360 ,to flash your drive without any damage.
If you plan to take apart your Xbox 360 -- and we must warn you that doing so will void your warranty

The following tools are needed:
1: A torx screw drivers in the following size: T10
2: your finger nail's or small and thin wedge
3: The tool you just made
4: A 2 inch long and thin (roughly 1.5mm thick) metal stick

With those tools in hand, we're ready to disassemble the Xbox 360.



so lets get to opening it then
The first step is to remove the outer plastic shell that conceals the innards of the system
To do this, you must start by removing the face plate
Take a look at the front of the Xbox 360 and insert your finger nails in the grove and pull slightly the corner will pop off
then moving your finger a long the grove the hole front should just pop off.



After the face plate has been pulled off you will see a silver Microsoft sticker covering a gap; remove this
You will also see four small clips locking the top half of the plastic shell to the bottom half
Do not attempt to wedge the clips out at this point
With some care, gently bend outwards, the right gray ventilation shield on the right side of the unit so that you can see a bit inside
You will notice that the gray side piece attaches to both the bottom and top white chassis
Now look through the holes on top of the unit to locate the areas where the gray side pieces attaches to the white body
What you need to do is take the long but thin metal stick and push down
through the white holes (located on both the top and bottom of the Xbox 360) where the clips of the gray side pieces connect
Slowly pull out the gray pieces away from the unit while unlocking the clips and eventually the gray piece will release itself



To remove the left gray piece, you must first remove the hard drive unit by pressing the button located on the unit itself
Then apply the same procedure used to remove the right gray ventilation piece -- except when you reach the bottom clip of the piece
you most remove the rubber feet located directly below, to reveal a hole where you can insert the metal stick



Once you have both side gray pieces removed
you have essentially removed the main locking mechanism that holds the top and bottom shells together. At this point
return to the front of the unit and turn the entire unit upside down
Using you finger nail's or a small wedge, gently pry up the 4 clips holding the top shell to the bottom
Once the clips are unlatched, slowly lift up the front of the bottom shell about an inch. then turn the console round
The last step to removing the bottom shell cover insert the opening key you just made into the thin rectangular holes on the rear
you should leave the the tool in the holes to prevent the rear latches from reattaching themselves
Slowly insert the key into the holes. You should hear a click sound for each clamp you unlatch. Once complete
you may lift off the bottom shell covering



Looking inside the unit, you will notice that there are 14 silver screws (6 of which are long) and 8 black screws. Using your torx screw driver
you do NOT need to remove the black heat-sink screws. All you need to remove is the six silver long screws I've circled in RED



flip the Xbox 360 right side up lift up the top plastic shell.mind the eject button You should now be greeted with the internals of the Xbox 360.




Step #3

Your going to need a SATA chipset or onboard SATA to flash the drive on your 360, here is a list of known working chipsets, I personally recommend the VIA VT chipsets, they are good and cheap, find them easily on ebay




Step #4

find the software your going to need to flash with and a guide on how to do the flash,
Here are some recommended Tutorials:
Samsung extreme53 tutorial
Hitachi Maximus 3.0 tutorial
Hitachi 36, 40, 46, 47, 58, 59 Drives Tutorial


Step #5

earn how to make back ups of games, the easiest way is by buying a special drive that reads the 360's games perfectly allowing you to just copy and burn, find that here, of course if you dont want to part with anymore money then you can use your 360 to back up games, this is a little more difficult and time consuming, that said it still gets the job done.

Guide: http://www.nextgenboards.com/vb/xbox...les-drive.html

Originally Posted by EZskankenfosho I can't wait to get home after work and check out the 360's inards. The key thing kinda threw me off when I tried on my own. I didn't want to stress the outer case. As for the warranty...bah! you can always buy a new core for cheep.