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February 14, 2006 | Paul Thurrott | The Connected Home Tech Blog
Xbox 360 File System Is Cracked

Predictably, hackers have already found a way around Microsoft's elaborate Xbox 360 copy-protection schemes. Their latest handiwork is a utility called XPlorer360, which lets users browse the Xbox 360 file system and, most important, copy files—including saved games—on and off the console. You'll need to do some hardware handiwork to make it happen—including acquiring a SATA hard drive cable and/or a hacked USB cable—but once you do so, you can perform such feats of engineering as copying saved games from an original Xbox to the Xbox 360, which is one of the biggest Xbox 360 customer requests around. A new Web site has also sprung up for stockpiling saved games, so if you're stuck on a certain game title, you can use these saved games to keep going.

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Hey, 360gamesaves.com it is a pretty new site. Not even our Websense has it blocked yet! ;) FYI: Websense is corporate web filtering software.

Derek A. Muenzel -February 15, 2006

It will be interesting to see what the mod community can do next. The folks out there took the original xbox to the outer limits, from running Linux to the GTA:SA PC-based "hot coffee" mod. What lies ahead for Xbox360 will be very interesting in-deed.

James -February 15, 2006

awsome

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Hi, I took my Xbox 360 HD out and put it in my computer but it reformatted my Xbox HD. Now when I plug it in to my Xbox it acts like there is nothing there. Do you know anything that could help me like software to reformat to Xbox format or system files I can copy to my HD and plug in and its good as new. Thanks

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