The front of the console features a "ring of light" that displays four illuminated quadrants in either red or green (Some special editions replaced the green for blue). When the lights turn red, the console has encountered an error, with the number of sectors illuminated informing the user what category the error falls into. Since the redesign of the console removed the red LEDs, this error reporting system is no longer used. The "reason" was simple greed. The same thing applies to nearly EVERY accessory for the 360. Hard drives, memory cards, headsets - all have to be Microsoft's proprietary crap instead of standard hardware that you can buy anywhere. The touch power and eject buttons from the 360 S have also been replaced with more-traditional physical buttons. Bramwell, Tom (October 24, 2006). "Gears cost MS a billion dollars". Eurogamer . Retrieved February 8, 2020. First, make sure you have J-Runner with Extras. You need this tool to read/write your NAND and prepare the RGH2 built nand which you'll convert later in the guide.

In fact those same flash drives (since you can use just about any drive off the shelf) can be used on any hardware that supports it.Personally I hope the PS3 route is taken for hard drives next time around. I can understand the reasons why they haven't yet, but hope they do next time around. Sorry never saw that message, must have already been replying...No you can't do it with External USB HDD's

Douglass C., Perry (2005-05-20). "E3 2005: Microsoft's Xbox 360 vs. Sony's PlayStation 3". IGN. Archived from the original on 2006-09-26 . Retrieved 2006-09-30.

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a b Shimpi, Anand Lal (2008-12-10). "Jasper is here: A look at the new Xbox 360". AnandTech. Archived from the original on 2018-12-22 . Retrieved 2018-01-15. Next: Disconnect your NAND Programmer from the console and press the Eject Button to boot your console into XELL Reloaded.