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I cleaned the Xbox 360 internal hard drive with the Linux "dd" command:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc

After this the drive is no longer recognised by the Xbox 360 (the drive doesn't show up in System->Storage Devices).

Is there anything I can do to make the drive usable with Xbox 360 again?

I have tried to create an exFAT partition on it but it did not help.

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    What are you trying to do exactly? I'm not sure if this should be tagged with homebrew or not, but it certainly doesn't sound like a normal Xbox 360 thing...
    – Timmy Jim ♦
    Jan 18 at 17:11
  • Just tried to empty the hard drive before giving the device to someone else. Maybe a bit harsh way, but anyway, would like it back :)
    – Mike
    Jan 18 at 19:56
  • This is a poweruser action but certainly not homebrew
    – Schism
    Jan 19 at 3:36
  • You've wiped the entire disk including the partition table. You need to re-partition it to what the XBox is expecting, but I don't know what that is.
    – OrangeDog
    Jan 19 at 12:19

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Perhaps you need to partition and initialize the drive with certain predefined Xbox 360-specific FATX volumes. That's how you do it on the original Xbox.

https://fatxplorer.eaton-works.com/

I use FatXplorer for original Xbox drives myself, but it seems to be mainly made for the 360. It should be able to initialize the drive for you.

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