Did I **** Up My 120 GB Hard Drive?
 

I'm speechless. How did you format it? You might have accidentally removed the OS is you've plugged it in to your computer and formatted it that way.

^^^ this

I formatted it by going into Computer>E:>Format>[Default Name (Sorry I forgot it.)]>Start

Someone I saw called it "bricking" your hard drive when you do what I did. I think I'm pretty much screwed. I can't find a solution anywhere and the tutorials for transferring the data threw me off.

Yes, my friend bricks up his as well... He we screwed, bought a new one I think

Did you follow directions on how to transfer data between two 360 HDD's? I imagine there are tons online. Try hooking it up to your 360 and seeing if the 360 has an option to format the HDD. Usually devices like 360's, phones and such that format will properly format it and give it any necessary files for successful use with the device.

I can't imagine you ever needing to hook up to a PC for this process, but admittedly I haven't looked it up at all. Why couldn't you just hook it up via USB to the 360 and transfer the data and then just install it?

Don't give up hope! If it's recognizable, then you can probably try other techniques.

Never mind. It's encrypted, the drive.

Believe me I have searched and searched for the right tutorial, but so many are for the slim. I think the thing I did wrong was not have the new Xbox 360 hard drive plugged into the Xbox and have the old one plugged into the transfer cable. Although, if it asked me to configure my 60GB hard drive I would have had the same problem and not been able to transfer. I don't get the format option on my Xbox because when I plug it into my Xbox it isn't recognized as a hard drive. When it's plugged in through the transfer cable I don't have the option to format. I wanted to reformat it to it's original state using the computer since the Xbox 360 couldn't, but sadly that didn't work either. I don't know whether to buy a new one and gamble that it will work if I reverse what I did last time or to frustrate myself more attempting to fix this damn thing.

http://www.ehow.com/how_6804298_pre_...-xbox-360.html
http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-3...tup/hard-drive

some sources i just looked around.

This details how to properly format the HDD in a way that the 360 will recognize, but with a PC(since your 360 isn't recognizing it): http://www.wikihow.com/Format-a-Hard...-With-Xbox-360

This explains how to format it while hooked up to the 360, but isn't applicable right now: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-3...sories/storage

This link will tell you how to transfer data with the transfer kit: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-3...transfer-cable

Thank you for the links. Can't wait to try these. Now my hard drive refuses to show up on my computer. One problem after another.

It may be because of copywrite protections.