After that was done, I used the front bezel from a 24X CD ROM drive I had laying around, and attached it to the front of the Xbox drive with 3M super double stick tape. Viola! functioning button.
Now that it kind of looks like a standard drive, the fun begins!
1st off, the 360 drive is wider than a standard 5 1/4" drive. Some "delicate" surgery is required to get it to fit into a standard slot. For my surgery I chose some tin snips and a hack saw to remove those pesky ears.
Not pretty, but it gets the job done. Now that the drive can physically fit into my case, how do I get it mounted since it does not have the standard mounting holes? "Just drill some holes" you might say. Well, as much as I enjoy drilling holes in stuff, I did not want to risk damaging the drive inside. I mean this is a $200 experiment, so I chose the next best thing to drilling.......duct tape. I decidced to just duct tape the drive to the DVD drive below it, and just slide the whole contraption into the case. Piece of cake.
Now that our franken-drive is ready to mounted into my case, its time to hook up the USB and power. Oh Boy!
1st lets tackle power. The backplane on the 360 Drive is special and has both the USB and power connectors on it. We'll use both of these, and rig them into the case. The power connector uses 12v, 5v and 3.3v. So some tom foolerey will be needed. Lets begin. 1st we'll make a power cable to connect to a standard PC power supply connector. That will give us our 12v, 5v and ground, but we'll still need to get 3.3v from somewhere. Here's the cable. Notice the naked cable hanging off the end. That's for the 3.3v
The best place to get 3.3v is from the motherboard connector on the power supply. That's why we have the naked cable. Using a "T" tap, we tap into the 3.3v connector on the motherboard, and give the Xbox HD DVD drive the 3.3v its hungry for.
Now that power is taken care of, lets get this thing hooked up with some signal. Since the Xbox drive is USB, we will continue to use that connector and team it up with a USB header on my motherboard. Some more custom cable work yields a nice cable with a header connector on one end, and the 360 backplance connector on the other.
Now all that's left is to connect up the drive. Here's what the back looks like all cabled up and pretty
And of course the picture you've all been waiting for.......Here's what it looks like mounted in the case (middle drive)
Just like a standard drive! Yay, no pesky external Xbox looking devices!
5 comments:
very good tutorial!
which is the USB Port from the cable , i dont own the ORIGNAL cable.
dont know which is it.
Very clever idea with taping the drive on top of another - so simple yet I didn't think of it lol.
One thing missing though is how you put a button on front of the drive under the eject bezel button. What sort of switch did you use?
could you please send me the drivers for this or provide a working link to them?
Thanks
Hi. I'm looking for some drivers to make an HDDVD drive works in a laptop. Would you please send me that amazing drivers? I'll really apreciate it. you can send them to metropraise@hotmail.com or islazm@gmail.com
Thank u in advance!!!
Good Luck.
I just attempted this mod with an old HD-DVD drive I've had knocking around for years.
Unfortunately I appear to have busted something, as the drive no-longer works correctly.
Power is fine (taken from a SATA power connector), and USB connection is fine.
However upon plugging it in Windows 7 x64 only detects 3 devices, "Xbox 360 HD DVD Interface 0", "Xbox 360 HD DVD Interface 1" & "USB Mass Storage Device".
The latter of these does not install successfully. (Device Manager reports it's status as being "This device cannot start. (Code 10)".
The drive doesn't appear as a mountable device.
Oh well; I guess I'll keep an eye out for a faulty drive appearing on ebay.
Still, cheers for the guide - it would have been much easier to fail had you not published it.
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