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[Evil Ryu]

QUOTE (lenballs @ May 12 2004, 04:21 PM)

This is straying from the original topic, but your not going to be able to get an eeprom backup off a locked hard drive, if the xbox is broken.

If you boot the xbox with a modchip, it doesn't matter whether the harddrive is locked or not. Therfore you would be able to grab the files from the C:\backup folder if you needed to.

It's just the original M$ bios that requires the harddrive to be locked (ie - won't boot if the harddrive is unlocked).

*edit*

Oops... sorry kevlar69, but unfortunately I don't think I've flashed a 2.4b lite before, but I'm pretty sure you can just use EvoX to flash it. But you'll probably want to double check that. Just do a quick search through the forums (or tutorials) and you'll find a million posts regarding flashing your chip.

[Lugnut]

Wherever the evoxdash.xbe is, ftp into the xbox and make a folder called "bios"  , go into it and drop your new bios.bin file in there that you want to program that has the embedded eeprom, then in settings in the dash, go to flash, and you should see your bios file appear.

[lenballs]

QUOTE (Evil Ryu @ May 14 2004, 05:51 AM)

If you boot the xbox with a modchip, it doesn't matter whether the harddrive is locked or not. Therfore you would be able to grab the files from the C:\backup folder if you needed to.

Ok, lets go back to the start, you have an xbox with a flashing red LED, meaning the eeprom is corrupt.

The hard drive is locked.

If you install a modchip with an embedded eeprom, you will not be able to access the hard drive, all your going to get is error 6, as the HDD key on the embedded eeprom will be different to the key on the hard drive.

Without that original eeprom working again, your never going to unlock that drive, might as well throw it away.

Kevlar, if your having problems flashing from EvoX just install a new modchip with cromwell on it and flash it with your new embedded eeprom bios.

Or you could edit your c:\evox.ini file to add some flash commands, something like this:

Item "Flash BIOS 1Meg 4981",@276

[Action_76]
Info "Ready To Flash XBOX"
flashbios "c:\4981.06_Blue_White_1M.bin"

You'll need a flash ID line like this:

Flash = 0x01d5,"AMD - Am29F080B",0x100000

(I think thats the one for xecutor 2.2 and 2.3)

This will be well documented in the tutorials section.

If your like me and don't use any of that slayers auto-install crap you will have to make your own flash bios menus.

[opjose]

QUOTE (Renthal @ May 11 2004, 01:17 AM)

Contrary to popular opinion, I can confirm a 1.1 eeprom will flash and work on a 1.0 Xbox.

Same here!

[slim_shady_jr]

But if you upgraded the hdd to a 120 gig and then used configmagic to lock it you can get a master hdd unlock key and unlock this drive.  A orignal hdd locked with configmagic will allow you to do this too but if it is locked origanal then you f@@k.  I allways lock with configmagic for that nice little feature of a master unlock key.  


Hope this helps

[slim_shady_jr]

- Make a DOS bootable disk. download ATAPWD from the downloads section.
- Switch off the PC and attach your locked HDD.
- Boot up from the diskette you made
- run ATAPWD.
- Under devices, select your Xbox HDD.
- Select Unlock with Master Password
- enter TEAMASSEMBLY.

[triggernum5]

QUOTE

Contrary to popular opinion, I can confirm a 1.1 eeprom will flash and work on a 1.0 Xbox.

Famous last words dude.  Only if the flash software alters the eeprom sufficiently.  Config Magic is good.  Eeprom magic will screw you every time (But is bug free and basically your saviour to fix a corrupt eeprom, as it changes nothing).  And then there is eepromer 0.45 which screwed my eeprom version and locked my stock seagate up for eternity I think..   I have a v1.0 box as well.

[kevlar69]

Slim Shady jr, I've just followed your sugestion, run atapwd from dos, unlocked with master password TEAMASSEMBLY, xbox is still displaying error 06. However, I am still booting with an eeprom embedded bios in my modchip, haven't reflashed the eeprom yet. Is this the reason or is my HD still locked?

cheers

Kevlar

[kevlar69]

ok guys, here's the deal, I have an RMA number to try to get this 120g Samsung drive replaced as faulty, I haven't quite given up on unlocking it yet though. I've tried Slim Shady's sugestion, unlocking it with master password TEAMASSEMBLY, tried it twice but no good, drive still locked. Now my last chance in to retreave my password from my backed up eeprom.bin. I managed to back it up even though it appears to be damaged using eeprom magic. Now I need to know how to access this file on my pc and try to get the password from it. Can anyone help me with this? is it possible?

Also, as this damaged eeprom.bin is still in the eeprom ( I haven't re-flashed it yet ) is there a program I can run on this xbox ( it does now boot using eeprom embedded bios ) which will let me see the HD key? ( config magic won't run, says something about wrong version )

Hopefully we can finish this thread soon!

cheers

Kevlar

[kevlar69]

Is there no eeprom.bin editing tool for pc?

Just tried Live info, only seems to support v1.0 & v1.1 eeproms ( wouldn't load mine. )

Tried eepmod, opens my backed up eeprom, but doesn't display HD key, only serial, Mac, Online Key and video region.

Any others to try?

Kevlar

[lenballs]

QUOTE (Evil Ryu @ May 15 2004, 03:20 AM)

So once you've got a modchip with an embedded bios, you would boot the xbox up with an EvoX boot disc, then FTP into the xbox and grab the backup files.

Ok we seem to be going round in circles  

If you have a locked hard drive, even with an eeprom backup in c:\backup, and you try and install this hard drive into an xbox with an embedded eeprom bios (rememebr our original motherboard has a corrupt eeprom and needs to be reflashed) you are going to get error 06 every time you boot, this error means the drive cannot be unlocked, which makes sense as our embedded eeprom HDD key is different to the key on the original eeprom (which is corrupt, so we can never recover the HDD key we need)

You can boot with evoX discs or try and FTP all you want, it will never work, you will get error 06 every time you boot.

You need to fit an unlocked HDD and then go about reflashing your corrupt eeprom.

The original HDD cannot be unlocked, as we do not the key, the key is on the original eeprom which has now been reflashed. The drive is now useless, might as well throw it away or return it to the manufacturer  

The only way I can see of avoiding this in future is what Lugnut said and to copy the C:\backup folder to a CDR and keep this with the xbox, so if the motherboard dies, we can use the eeprom.bin on our CDR and embed this into a bios, and fit to a new motherboard.

I understand what you are saying about booting from an evoX disc, this is only useful if your original eeprom is available or not corrupt, in this case the original eeprom is NOT available, so I was left with a paperweight 120Gb HDD.

[kevlar69]

Lenballs, you missunderstand my last few posts; I am currently running shagged xbox with eeprom embedded bios and my unlocked hardrive. I haven't reflashed the eeprom yet, so the old eeprom image with HD key is still on the eeprom, because I noticed that when I was about to flash it eeprom magic successfully backed it up. I ftp'd the backup to my pc in hope that I can get the HD password from it somehow. I've tried Live info but that program wouldn't open it ( I think it only works with v1.0 & v1.1 ) and eepmod, this opens the image but doesn't display HD key.

So I am looking for a program to view the HD key in my old eeprom image, maybe then I can re-flash the modchip with an eeprom with the correct password on it and save this HD.

This is a last ditch attempt, if I haven't got anywhere by Monday I am going to send it off and try to get it replaced ( problem is I don't think they are going to fall for it! )

if anyone can help please do

Kevlar

[kevlar69]

anyone?

[DrDeceased]

So you booted from a cd with a new unlocked HD in it.
You were able to use epprom magic to get a possible corrupted backup of your bios info.
?


I know that the evox backup utility displays the HD key in plain text.
Possibly try backing up with it.


Mind you I have only been in the scene for a week now, I could be way off.

[Evil Ryu]

lenballs... thanks for clearing that up. I was under the impression that it would work. I just recently had to start messing around with this whole corrupt eeprom thing, and I thought that's I how obtained the backup directory (but I'm not positive as I can't remember for sure).

As DrDeceased mentioned, here's a copy & paste of the original hddinfo.txt file that I retrieved from that locked drive:

Disk Serial Number : "WD-WCAxxxxxxxxxxxx"
Disk Model Number  : "WDC WD8xxxxxxxxxxx                       ****PARTINFO****                                XBOX MUSIC      "
HDD Key            : d6:a9:0a:71:6d:d1:c3:2e
                    7a:a3:03:16:0b:60:96:29
                    3f:90:0b:41:00:00:00:00
                    00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00

HDDLockDisablePassword d6 a9 0a 71 6d d1 c3 2e 7a a3 03 16 0b 60 96 29 3f 90 0b 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

XboxHDKey ec ad e6 17 53 6f 44 ff 35 4c e2 03 01 ab 4b f2

It all means next to nothing to me, but I just thought I would show you that I some how had managed to grab the backup folder from that drive. It's possible that I had run the backup option in EvoX after I had installed the unlocked drive (this is more than likely what happened), as I've got two backup folders from that xbox - the original one with the corrupt eeprom, and the one after it was fixed. But I think that I may have had a different unlocked harddrive in the xbox when I first did the backup (trying to salvage the eeprom), because I had two of them and I think that I swapped them afterwards because I wanted to keep the other. I dunno. But this is how I managed to get a backup of the corrupt eeprom - even though it was no good to me.

Cheers