Joined: Mar 23, 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Notts England
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject: my xbox is trashed
Im new to this scene,but i need some advice,ive modded my xbox a year ago with a x3,ive locked my 200gig harddrive to my xbox,ive no backup eeprom or unlock code,as i did not obtain this back up info,in short my motherboard is blown,everything else is fine,i understand the only way i can unlock this harddrive is by transfering my eeprom chip to a new board,but could i also low level format the drive and replace in a new upgraded xbox,or could i only use harddrive in a pc now,thanx
jhondra V.I.P. Member Xbox Version: Xbox V1.0 Modded: Xecuter3 CE
Joined: Sep 12, 2005 Posts: 288 Location: Boise, ID
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:46 pm Post subject:
I don't think you can even use that hard drive in a PC (and you can't transfer it to another xbox and expect it to unlock it either). You pretty much effectively just created a pretty expensive door stop. That is sort of the point of the IDE locking secutity feature. Make a back up of your eeprom.bin and keep it SAFE somewhere, so at least you can unlock an expensive drive if you need to later.
Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong on ability to unlock the IDE with a format (I'm sure someone at the drive manufacturer has a way to back door force unlock it, but I'm not aware of any programs...even at the expense of the data).
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jhondra V.I.P. Member Xbox Version: Xbox V1.0 Modded: Xecuter3 CE
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:50 pm Post subject:
Having just posted that, I figured I'd do a little research on my TIVO hacking sites I frequent (since they also have some units that lock the drives to the unit). As it turns out, there might be a way to force unlock a maxtor drive (not sure if it works on other drives or not).
Also, I think QUNLOCK.EXE might work. I'm uploading both to the VIP Downloads as well.
Can someone let me know if they work for you? I'll give it a try next time I'm on a PC with a locked 8GB drive too.
Regards,
-Jhondra _________________ Xecutor 3 CE
X3 3294 Bios
14 total successful solder-mod xbox's (v1.0 to v1.6b; favorite is v1.4 Sept 2003; very clean motherboard and usually has Samsung DVD), including two 128MB upgrades and 2 X3 LCD/CP's.
blighty Xbox-HQ Freak Xbox Version: Xbox V1.0 Modded: Xecuter3 CE
Joined: Nov 27, 2004 Posts: 881
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:59 pm Post subject:
If you used configmajic to lock the hdd then you can use their key Teammassembly or something.
Joined: Mar 23, 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Notts England
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:57 pm Post subject: My xbox is trashed
Thanks for the quick reply,ive tryed you first link to the tivo unlock DiskUtil,followed the instructions and it says drive error this is not locked,the thing is if the drive was locked, in the maxblast utility from maxtor it reads the drive capacity at 204GB,If the drive was locked it would not read past 0mb,so maybe it was never locked,never went on live,also when i tried to low level format with maxllf,it reads the whole capacity,but gives a error of "ERROR BIT SET 51h Error register:4h-maybe harddrive controller has been buggered as the motherboard went down???thanks for your quick reply guys
impwiz V.I.P. Lifetime Xbox Version: all Modded: everything
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This looks easy, if you have the money...If data recovery is important to you, you might wanna check this out. _________________
jhondra V.I.P. Member Xbox Version: Xbox V1.0 Modded: Xecuter3 CE
Joined: Sep 12, 2005 Posts: 288 Location: Boise, ID
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:02 pm Post subject:
I don't think the last guy posting in there about being able to unlock a drive locked with X3 Live with TEAMASSEMBLY master pwd knows what he is talking about. That should only work with a drive locked with ConfigMagic. Unless TeamXecutor has started using ConfigMagic locking in their BIOS...grin. wouldn't that be funny. Even funnier if TeamAssembly knew nothing about it...
But, it does bring up a good point. If you MUST run a locked drive (to boot a chipped box with the mod-chip disabled, or whatever), it might be a good idea to lock it with the ConfigMagic, and not a normal lock, since at least you always have a backdoor/master pwd.
-Jhondra _________________ Xecutor 3 CE
X3 3294 Bios
14 total successful solder-mod xbox's (v1.0 to v1.6b; favorite is v1.4 Sept 2003; very clean motherboard and usually has Samsung DVD), including two 128MB upgrades and 2 X3 LCD/CP's.
jiggysmb Xbox-HQ Elite Member Xbox Version: Xbox V1.0 Modded: Xecuter3 CE
Joined: Aug 18, 2004 Posts: 488 Location: Baltimore
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:25 am Post subject:
I locked a large drive about a year ago and BestBuy had a Manufacturer's 'Technicians boot disc' that preformed a security erase, which then allows the drive to be unlocked automatically. If you dont have a Best buy just go to a computer repair shop, they should have access to these discs. _________________ LED Rings $6 (doesnt include LEDs) LED ring pic
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