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[madklown]

I was upgrading a friends xbox with a fujitsu 40Gb HD messed up locking after spending all nite trying this tuturial. i tried booting config magic on a cdrw and unlocked the HD that way. the password i got was complete different from live info

[Kibe]

Someone said there is a way we can unlock a retail drive in a Mac?

Can you please give more details abou this?

[chinmi]

any news on another successfull unlock yet ??

[BulletMag]

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Strangely enough though config magic reports the drive as NOT LOCKED though i can't low level format or basicly do anything other than identify the drive itself...

it may be truely shagged.. but i would like to get thes other 3 WD drives working as they are just sitting here doing nowt.

[BAP1130]

lol for some reason, liveinfo isn't compatible with windows me, which kind of stopped me right then and there...i have an older stock western digital and most of the ppl who tried it with have seagates...anyone tried it with a wd?

[thefilepirater]

yes, i want to format my hdd, its unlocked, and now i dont know how to format it...help?

[Kev052683]

QUOTE (thefilepirater @ Apr 5 2004, 09:36 PM)

yes, i want to format my hdd, its unlocked, and now i dont know how to format it...help?

Dude.....they're talking about unlocking drives, not formatting!  Wrong topic!  Check out Slayers 2.5 for formatting your HD

[triggernum5]

If the drive was locked with config magic, and the master password is teamassembly, then try atapwd to unlock it with the master password.   The xbox uses the user password, and that is derived from data on the eeprom as well as the model/serial of the HDD.  I hope I'm wrong, but I don't see how liveinfo could work with out selecting an eeprom.bin.  Also I assume that live info would only return the original user password that was originally on the drive.  There is a very in depth article on the xbox-linux sourceforge site  (More than one actually)
Anyways, hdlock/hdunlock/hddisabl use 20 byte key.  Xbox/atapwd use 16 byte key

[chinmi]

hdunlock said "done" but when i tried the hddisable it said "device not ready"

how about that linux program ?? is it ready yet ??

[tester123]

I dont know how many times I have to say this, but if you did not lock it using configmagic, EvolutionX, or with out backing your info up TO A PC.... it's trash.

[tester123]

QUOTE (micah @ Apr 5 2004, 03:03 PM)

I too have had this problem, my old modded xbox will not boot at all (it does the turn on and off 3 times thing with the mod chip out) and I locked the hard drive on there. I've tried following these instructions above. When I use a boot disk to go to dos and run hdunlock, type in the password that liveinfo gave me (the 40-digit number) and it says done. I've realized that any code you put in will say done. I locked it with ConfigMagic FINAL (this is my 120g WD Hard drive), and I know their default password is TEAMASSEMBLY, but what does that do and/or is used for? When I try to run the hddisable program (or hdlock), type in the same long string, it tells me that it doesn't work. Are others having these same problems? Just to make sure we're all on the same page here, I want to unlock this hard drive because my new modded xbox can't boot to it because it was locked on my other machine. Some other things I have tried: I have that Unlockx program as well, but that doesn't unlock when I put the code in. I've tried the Hot Swap thing with ConfigMagic FINAL and it was unable to unlock it. I really should have never locked it in the first place, and I really should have written down that long password. I am willing to offer the person who can tell me exactly what needs to be done (or even link to a page that explains it) $5 USD (via paypal or whatever) if I get my hard drive working again. Thanks to everyone who takes the time to help people like me out.

Go to the downloads section on the main page www.xbox-scene.com and search for atapwd.exe and then use TEAMASSEMBLY as the master password. You'll be in good shape then. Don't pay anybody for free information.

[pirlonga]

[marksu]

Any news of the Linux app ?

[Artifex]

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The disk lock is a built-in security feature in the disk. It is part of the ATA specification, and thus not specific to any brand or device. A disk always has two passwords: A User password and a Master password. Most disks support a Master Password Revision Code, which can tell you if the Master password has been changed, or it it still the factory default. The revision code is word 92 in the IDENTIFY response. A value of 0xFFFE means the Master password is unchanged. A disk can be locked in two modes: High security mode or Maximum security mode. Bit 8 in word 128 of the IDENTIFY response tell you which mode your disk is in: 0 = High, 1 = Maximum. In High security mode, you can unlock the disk with either the user or master password, using the "SECURITY UNLOCK DEVICE" ATA command. There is an attempt limit, normally set to 5, after which you must power cycle or hard-reset the disk before you can attempt again. In Maximum security mode, you cannot unlock the disk! The only way to get the disk back to a usable state is to issue the SECURITY ERASE PREPARE command, immediately followed by SECURITY ERASE UNIT. The SECURITY ERASE UNIT command requires the Master password and will completely erase all data on the disk. The operation is rather slow, expect half an hour or more for big disks. (Word 89 in the IDENTIFY response indicates how long the operation will take.)

[lordvader129]

QUOTE (Artifex @ May 1 2004, 12:21 PM)

These sort of threads frustrate me. This simply, flat out, will not work. If it is working for iceuk, then he is confused about his procedure. You CANNOT unlock an hdd without either the master or user hdd password. Software, regardless of operating system, CANNOT "retrieve" the master or user hdd password from an hdd, you must know it. If you do not have the eeprom data which was used to lock the drive, you are out of luck.... end of story. --Artifex PS: Some further technical details, taken from a good explanation on hdd locking, are below.  For even MORE technical details, refer to the ATA specification.

reading his procedure it seems he probably had his own eeprom loaded into liveinfo from some previous unlock attempt (and forgot it was loaded) and thats how he was able to generate the correct unlock code for his test HD


in short, this procedure (like others already in the tutorial section) will only work if you have a valid eeprom.bin backup