so i'm officially part of this v1.1 xbox lock code issue... i started out with a non-chip mod, i had issues with evox, and figured out how to fix that... the only problem is - in this process; i must have locked the hard drive with the wrong code... not sure how - but i look at it in liveinfo2 and it now tells me a different code... i backed up all my eeprom stuff - so i can go back to it and see it will generate the orig. code... but with it will now show a different code. (using hdlock, hdunlock, hddisabl; as well as the other DOS utility that didn't require atapwd) no idea how this happened - lets just say - that i broke my orig 10 gig from seagate, a 120 gig i bought as a replacement (was working) and a buddy's that had the same version xbox... they all are no longer working.
FYI - anyone who is trying to load a locked drive in windowz... if you boot it attached to your intel machine - it will take like 5-6 min to boot - but it will eventually boot, so you don't have to worry about this plugging it in after the fact issue... i've tested this with 3 drives and both win xp, and xebian on my intel machine.
anyways... so i'm told that i need to get a modchip and configmagic to make this unlock... so i'm now a proud new owner of the xenium with the 1.1 os... it's beautiful i must say... so i've tried the configmagic on the slayers disc, and the xenium drive unlock, and - well only one actually said unlock successful... but it didn't matter cuz it didn't werk... so now i'm lost - i don't care about the data on these drives, what i would like to happen would be to just get rid of the lock codes alltogether, and use these drives for something else... i traded in my 120 gig for a new one (warranty) so i've got that unlocked - werking with evox... but these other 2 i'd like to just get werking... can't seem to find anyone that knows how to completely destroy the data on the drives... i even got the low level format utility from seagate... it just errored about 7000 times... i knew the sectors weren't being repaired... so my question is - how do i destroy the data alltogether to just have these drives as normal drives?.. i'm running a v1.1 xbox i've got my eeprom data backed up - all the lock codes, and all the known utilities... i've had no success - as well as seen many others with this same issue... please send me as much data as possible... anyone else have this issue - please post here!
ps... i've seen companies out there that say they will repair xbox hard drives for a fee... that they are experienced technicians with xbox hardware... i'd really rather not have to send these drives out to fix them.
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Topic: Hard Drive Locked V1.1 Changed Eeprom Lock (Read 175 times)