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Pooky

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« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2004, 05:32:00 AM »
i tried the same trick with a Seagate xbox hd and no result. I can read the calculated password in Liveinfo. When i use HDDISABLE with that password in says: "device not ready"

i'm have XP. Would it have something to do with the OS you're running.
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« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2004, 05:37:00 AM »
i have the exact problem!!


so i dunno what hes doing, but something is wrong..
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« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2004, 08:18:00 AM »
well if you try the password too many times the hdd will perm lock.

just a warning...
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« Reply #18 on: February 17, 2004, 09:06:00 AM »
QUOTE (Pooky @ Feb 17 2004, 03:40 PM)
i know it's strange. But i did they same method with a maxtor 80 gig and there it worked. So.. it shouldn't be the OS you're running but maybe it matters if you want to unlock original hd's

so you are confirming it worked then?
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« Reply #19 on: February 17, 2004, 10:38:00 AM »
QUOTE (iceuk @ Feb 17 2004, 07:06 PM)
QUOTE (Pooky @ Feb 17 2004, 03:40 PM)
i know it's strange. But i did they same method with a maxtor 80 gig and there it worked. So.. it shouldn't be the OS you're running but maybe it matters if you want to unlock original hd's

so you are confirming it worked then?


The 80G Maxtor may not have been locked, or, if it was, since it wasn't an Xbox original HD, the master security password was unchanged. M$ changes the master passwords on the XBOX original drives, so the calculated passwords and original manufacturer passwords don't work. Consequently the software provided passwords won't work either. They (M$) use Maximum Security mode to the hilt.

Iceuk, I am not saying your method doesn't work, I'm just saying it doesn't work everytime for everybody, so that makes it useless, essentially. But hey, if it works for you, then you can make some $$$ unlocking drives for folks.
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« Reply #20 on: February 17, 2004, 12:40:00 PM »
QUOTE (iceuk @ Feb 17 2004, 07:03 PM)
What im gonna do now is try this method on a couple of other pc's and see what results i get.

Right..

Tried some unlocks of retail on 2 other pc's running windows 2000

hmm.. they would'nt unlock

Tried 3 bigger drives (80gb maxtor, 120gb seagate, wd 40gb)

They all unlocked successfully!!!!!

i have now made a full image of my magic windows 2000 machine what unlocked the retail drives!!

It looks to me now that this method will only unlock non original xbox hhd's on most peoples machines

keep posting, let me know how it goes

believe me i will NOT give up!
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« Reply #21 on: February 17, 2004, 02:43:00 PM »
Same problem here.
HDDisable = Device is not ready
I have a 160 Gb WD.
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Pooky

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« Reply #22 on: February 18, 2004, 09:54:00 AM »
Well.. i have tried this method again with an original Seagate only now on windows 2000 with SP4 like Iceuk is running. No result at all
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« Reply #23 on: February 18, 2004, 11:10:00 AM »
Maybe it could be usefull if iceuk posted his system configuration (Mainboard, Proc, drives etc) as detailed as possible, as well as everyone that is doing tests.

See ya.
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« Reply #24 on: February 18, 2004, 03:28:00 PM »
Soo... is it not possible to unlock an original seagate/wd xbox hd with this swap method?

really not the greatest solderer in the world and dont really want to try to swap eeproms...might make 2 dead xboxes over this ...
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« Reply #25 on: February 18, 2004, 03:31:00 PM »
QUOTE (c_poussard @ Feb 18 2004, 04:28 PM)
Soo... is it not possible to unlock an original seagate/wd xbox hd with this swap method?

really not the greatest solderer in the world and dont really want to try to swap eeproms...might make 2 dead xboxes over this ...

what are you talking about?
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« Reply #26 on: February 19, 2004, 05:20:00 AM »
If you can do that, you can dump the eeprom data to unlock the HDD with ur PC or unlock swaping the eeprom with another Xbox... but that´s something we already know.

Let's see if we can find out if this method works, or the key for it to work.

See ya.
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« Reply #27 on: February 20, 2004, 09:59:00 AM »
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Is my drive trashed? I thought it didnt matter if it was locked or not if you had a chip but apparently I was wrong eheh.
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iceuk

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« Reply #28 on: February 20, 2004, 10:20:00 AM »
so u have got the rom dump from your xbox that drive came out of?

you can boot a config magic cd and dump that backup on to the rom and unlock it..

you can also read the eeprom bin file which is on your pc to get the password.

Not really sure what your saying!! ... had a lot to drink!!!
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« Reply #29 on: February 20, 2004, 10:29:00 AM »
Anyway.....

Good News..... ish!!
I spoke to some Linux programmers the other night about drive unlocking..

I told them the situation with the xbox and stuff..

They now have 3 retail xbox hdd's (had to travel 80 miles) and they are very sure they can build a prog to do the job..

The app will be built around the linux os.. ( wont make windows app.. they hate m$)..

so i will keep you updated..

ice
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