HOW TO FIT A 2.5 1TB HDD IN THE 360 HDD ENCLOSURE
IF IMAGES ARE NOT VIEWABLE TRY VIEWING MY PHOTO ALBUM IN MY PROFILE THAN VIEWING THE TUTORIAL
MATERIALS
1) 1TB 2.5 sata HDD i bought a portable hdd and took it out of the enclosure
2) dremel and cut off wheels (perhaps sand paper would be a good substitute?)
3) metal sheers/tin snips (optional as you can use the tremel)
4) pliers
GETTING STARTED
If you bought some sort of external HDD for this than you will of course need to get the HDD out of the enclosure.
you will also need to disassemble your xbox 360 HDD enclosure for instructions on how to do this see here:
http://www.team-xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56165
go ahead and remove the HDD from the 360 enclosure and set it beside the 1TB HDD and you will see why it wont fit in the 360 enclosure.
see how much thicker it is? If you set it beside the disassembled HDD enclosure you will see its almost as thick as the metal shielding.
now what you will want to do is set the HDD on top of the metal cage facing the correct directions and such as if you were going to install it.
from here you will want to mark with a permanent marker at the sata plug end where the hdd ends and mark it acordingly like this:
those parts are to be cut and removed like follows:
also cut away the long tabs between the screw holes as well as the short metal tabs at the non sata end,
do not cut away the screw holes just simply bend them upwards for now.
once all the extra metal is cut away and the screw tabs have been bent upward set the 1TB hdd inside the metal shielding and mark the screw tabs from the inside where the HDD stops, the top part of the screw tabs above the HDD is now ready to be cut away.
after cutting the top part of the screw tabs away slot the remainder of the screw hole so you can mount the HDD to the steel shielding like follows:
Note that i used screws with rather large heads if you cut the screw tabs to low you will also have to use a large diameter screw head to make everything mount properly, also notice the screw heads have been ground down we will come back to that later.
next you will need to remove the metal sheilding by gently prying up in the center with a flat head screw driver, its only stuck down with some kind of black sticky strip.
Prepare to start cutting away at the top piece of the HDD enclosure, here is a picture marked out with every thing to cut,not to cut, and what to be careful cutting:
THE RED CIRCLE:
DO NOT CUT THE 3 PEGS CIRCLED IN RED these hold the HDD connector that connects to the 360 from being pushed back inside the HDD enclosure when you are connecting the HDD.
THE YELLOW CIRCLE:
when cutting away at what is circled in yellow (if you even need to im not sure i ended up cutting away at a lot of different things) BE CAREFUL because if you cut to much away it will be visable around the HDD logo on the out side of the enclosure
THE 4 GREEN CIRCLES ON THE OUT SIDE EDGE:
these 4 green circles on the out side edge on the inside of the enclosure mark a few diffrent things like: clips that hold the enclosure spacer trim in my case the silver part, as well as a little ledge that the spacer rests on and a few other plastic bits that sit kinda high.
cut away all the clips and ledges and such on both the trim and plug side of the enclosure, the clips for the trim are not need'd as the 4 HDD enclosure screws pass threw the trim also.
be careful when cutting around the edge of the plug side of the enclosure, if you angle to far to the out side it will scar and be visable.
THE MIDDLE GREEN CIRCLE:
no tricks or any thing here just cut it out, set it aside for later just in case you end up cutting those 3 pegs i said not to cut, i cut those 3 pegs and fixed the problem with this scrap piece of plastic.
in the end you should end up with this accept you should still have the 3 pegs (i cut them that how i know you should leave them lol)
with the trim ring resting on the enclosure:
the plastic trim should no longer be attached because we cut all the clips and such, make sure the inside of the plastic trim ring is even with the rest of the inside of the ring.
If you need'd to use larger head screws to mount your HDD inside the metal shielding you will want to cut away a little divot where each screw you used to mount the HDD is located be careful doing this as you dont want to cut threw the trim ring, you can also grind the screw heads down a bit, it should look something like this when you are done making the divots:
now dry fit everything together and it should all fit like it belongs no gaps and things of that sort if it does than begin to reassemble the enclosure with your 1TB HDD inside.
If it didnt fit right remove the trim ring and look to see what is keeping you from closing the case properly and cut it away.
here are pictures of mine assembled notice there are no gaps or any thing of the sort:
top view:
IF IMAGES ARE NOT VIEWABLE TRY VIEWING MY PHOTO ALBUM IN MY PROFILE THAN VIEWING THE TUTORIAL
MATERIALS
1) 1TB 2.5 sata HDD i bought a portable hdd and took it out of the enclosure
2) dremel and cut off wheels (perhaps sand paper would be a good substitute?)
3) metal sheers/tin snips (optional as you can use the tremel)
4) pliers
GETTING STARTED
If you bought some sort of external HDD for this than you will of course need to get the HDD out of the enclosure.
you will also need to disassemble your xbox 360 HDD enclosure for instructions on how to do this see here:
http://www.team-xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56165
go ahead and remove the HDD from the 360 enclosure and set it beside the 1TB HDD and you will see why it wont fit in the 360 enclosure.
see how much thicker it is? If you set it beside the disassembled HDD enclosure you will see its almost as thick as the metal shielding.
now what you will want to do is set the HDD on top of the metal cage facing the correct directions and such as if you were going to install it.
from here you will want to mark with a permanent marker at the sata plug end where the hdd ends and mark it acordingly like this:
those parts are to be cut and removed like follows:
also cut away the long tabs between the screw holes as well as the short metal tabs at the non sata end,
do not cut away the screw holes just simply bend them upwards for now.
once all the extra metal is cut away and the screw tabs have been bent upward set the 1TB hdd inside the metal shielding and mark the screw tabs from the inside where the HDD stops, the top part of the screw tabs above the HDD is now ready to be cut away.
after cutting the top part of the screw tabs away slot the remainder of the screw hole so you can mount the HDD to the steel shielding like follows:
Note that i used screws with rather large heads if you cut the screw tabs to low you will also have to use a large diameter screw head to make everything mount properly, also notice the screw heads have been ground down we will come back to that later.
next you will need to remove the metal sheilding by gently prying up in the center with a flat head screw driver, its only stuck down with some kind of black sticky strip.
Prepare to start cutting away at the top piece of the HDD enclosure, here is a picture marked out with every thing to cut,not to cut, and what to be careful cutting:
THE RED CIRCLE:
DO NOT CUT THE 3 PEGS CIRCLED IN RED these hold the HDD connector that connects to the 360 from being pushed back inside the HDD enclosure when you are connecting the HDD.
THE YELLOW CIRCLE:
when cutting away at what is circled in yellow (if you even need to im not sure i ended up cutting away at a lot of different things) BE CAREFUL because if you cut to much away it will be visable around the HDD logo on the out side of the enclosure
THE 4 GREEN CIRCLES ON THE OUT SIDE EDGE:
these 4 green circles on the out side edge on the inside of the enclosure mark a few diffrent things like: clips that hold the enclosure spacer trim in my case the silver part, as well as a little ledge that the spacer rests on and a few other plastic bits that sit kinda high.
cut away all the clips and ledges and such on both the trim and plug side of the enclosure, the clips for the trim are not need'd as the 4 HDD enclosure screws pass threw the trim also.
be careful when cutting around the edge of the plug side of the enclosure, if you angle to far to the out side it will scar and be visable.
THE MIDDLE GREEN CIRCLE:
no tricks or any thing here just cut it out, set it aside for later just in case you end up cutting those 3 pegs i said not to cut, i cut those 3 pegs and fixed the problem with this scrap piece of plastic.
in the end you should end up with this accept you should still have the 3 pegs (i cut them that how i know you should leave them lol)
with the trim ring resting on the enclosure:
the plastic trim should no longer be attached because we cut all the clips and such, make sure the inside of the plastic trim ring is even with the rest of the inside of the ring.
If you need'd to use larger head screws to mount your HDD inside the metal shielding you will want to cut away a little divot where each screw you used to mount the HDD is located be careful doing this as you dont want to cut threw the trim ring, you can also grind the screw heads down a bit, it should look something like this when you are done making the divots:
now dry fit everything together and it should all fit like it belongs no gaps and things of that sort if it does than begin to reassemble the enclosure with your 1TB HDD inside.
If it didnt fit right remove the trim ring and look to see what is keeping you from closing the case properly and cut it away.
here are pictures of mine assembled notice there are no gaps or any thing of the sort:
top view:
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