Topic: Unlocking Hard Drive - Help! (Read 93 times)

th3gh05t · « **on:** October 03, 2006, 02:53:00 PM »

Hi,

Someone please help me out~!

Here is what I did:

1. Locked the hard drive via the UnleashX menu.
2. Rebooted the Xbox into the original MS dash. (Red light on x3 black thing)
3. Got error code 06.
4. Tried to boot back into UnleashX, I get error code 06. This error screen looks similar to MS one, but it has been changed.

People in the UnleashX form told me that I can lock my hard drive in the UnleashX menu in order to play on XBL. But now I cannot get into any dashboard on my xbox. Even holding the 'White' button to bring up the X3 menu doesn't work. I can only get into the FlashBios of the ModChip.

This is the only hard drive that has ever been in this xbox since the modchip.

How do I unlock my hard drive?

What are the exact steps I need to take?

seanp2500 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 03, 2006, 03:00:00 PM »

i think that this is kinda wierd question...every xbox hd is "locked" to the eeprom of that xbox's motherboard so i am sort of confused at how you relocked it to a different key essentialy while it was still attached to your motherboard.....because if it was locked to the same eeprom you should not be having this problem....can you run any bootdiscs? if all else fails you can hook up to your pc and burn xboxhdm1.9 try running option 4 then atapwd see if your xbox will unlock with the master password of XBOXSCENE or TEAMASSEMBLY but to be honest with you this is pretty wierd i mean how could unleash have locked it to a diff key...

th3gh05t · « **Reply #2 on:** October 03, 2006, 03:50:00 PM »

I have never had this hard drive in any other xbox.

When I went into the "Storage" menu in UnleashX settings, it said that the Xbox was unlocked. I locked it through UnleashX, and then tried to boot up MS Dash.

seanp2500 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 04, 2006, 04:16:00 PM »

ok but then what happened it does not boot to ms dash? if not then your ms dash corrupt/missing files somehow may have gotten wiped will it read bootdiscs? this is kinda wierd the reason i say that is if you relocked it and it only had been locked to your box it should still have that eeprom.bin in it which is your motherboards key basically maybe it does not have all the evox/ms dash files you need to boot to a dash....either way when you turn it on it has to be locked with your bin and working dash if you are still having problems my next q would be do you still have the original hd is this the original hd or a larger upgrade hd? got any buddies with a modded box? i would unlock it if you can or if not then burn auto installer 3.0 to disc boot up yours and a buddies box when yours goes to the x it is unlocked then hotswap his hd once the auto installer disc spins with yours and see if you can replace ms and evox dashes from the autoinstalled disc then hopefully you should be ok hard to tell need more info basically if you are dealing with the original retail hd or an upgrade

th3gh05t · « **Reply #4 on:** October 07, 2006, 03:01:00 PM »

holy crap dude! i cant understand a word you are saying! use periods and paragraphs.

anyway, I burned a copy of Slayer's Auto Installer to a DVD-R, but it didn't boot up the disk first. I tried it when the mod chip is on, and when the mod chip is off, but still no luck.

I have another Xbox that is modded, but it is a soft mod, so I don't know if that will help. Is there any way I can load this hard drive up on my computer? And use a program to unlock it from my desktop?

If anyone with a little more experience and knowledge about this subject could reply and help me out, that would be great!

Thanks!

seanp2500 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 07, 2006, 04:27:00 PM »

sorry I type real real fast cuz I like to do ten things at once....but hopefully this will give you some help...

You said that this Hard drive is locked and you want to unlock it. What eeprom.bin file (or motherboard) is it locked to? Is it a retail hard drive? Or is it a larger upgraded harddrive? The reason why I am asking is: A. you have a mod chip (to my knowledge locked/unlocked status shouldnt really matter...) and since you said in the earlier post above you locked this hd just after actually playing with the hard drive in the same xbox it should be locked to that xbox just like every xbox is so that I do not think is your problem...

In answer to your question though. I know I am somewhat lacking in knowledge of punctuation (not really see above (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)) I do know that if you burn xboxhdm1.9 to a bootdisc and run option 4 then atapwd you might be able to unlock that drive if you hook it up through an ide cable with the master password of XBOXSCENE or TEAMASSEMBLY then disable drive with same then try relocking it if you have your eeprom backed up....

Sadly I don't think the above is what you need but hard to tell. Another box might help if you try hotswapping but again this is all hard to tell....need more info basically sorry....

JrracinFan8 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 07, 2006, 05:23:00 PM »

Only things I can suggest are trying: XBOXSCENE TEAMASSEMBLY or XBOXLINUX as a password.

There is a last resort tho and its called http://www.hddunlock.com .

Sorry to hear that you lost your xbox.

PS: I also heard but very rare, of locked hdd's that are dying giving err06.

seanp2500 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 07, 2006, 06:01:00 PM »

cool dude you just taught me something xboxlinux is a master password too? when would that be the case?

th3gh05t · « **Reply #8 on:** October 09, 2006, 12:57:00 PM »

QUOTE(seanp2500 @ Oct 7 2006, 10:58 PM)

sorry I type real real fast cuz I like to do ten things at once....but hopefully this will give you some help...

You said that this Hard drive is locked and you want to unlock it. What eeprom.bin file (or motherboard) is it locked to? Is it a retail hard drive? Or is it a larger upgraded harddrive? The reason why I am asking is: A. you

I have no idea what eeprom.bin file it is locked to. This is a larger hard drive that I bought when I got the chip.

Is Xbox HDM easy to use? Is it pretty straight forward?

gsgleason · « **Reply #9 on:** October 09, 2006, 06:07:00 PM »

connect the drive to your pc.

from the tools section of xbox-scene.com, get atapwd.exe and put it on a dos boot floppy disc.

use atapwd to unlock with master password. I don't know what unleashX uses as a master password, so you'll have to find out. There's a tut out there somewhere on using atapwd.exe

Here's a similar tut.. http://answers.googl...dview?id=555334

th3gh05t · « **Reply #10 on:** October 10, 2006, 09:16:00 AM »

QUOTE(gsgleason @ Oct 10 2006, 01:14 AM)

connect the drive to your pc.

from the tools section of xbox-scene.com, get atapwd.exe and put it on a dos boot floppy disc.

use atapwd to unlock with master password. I don't know what unleashX uses as a master password, so you'll have to find out. There's a tut out there somewhere on using atapwd.exe

Here's a similar tut.. http://answers.googl...dview?id=555334

Hi,

Thanks for the instructions! But I don't have a floppy drive..

seanp2500 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 10, 2006, 01:10:00 PM »

thats not a prob disreguard the above instructions to get a floppy you dont need one if you burn xboxhdm1.9 to cd bootdisc (download from xbins) it has atapwd in it!!! just run option 4 to go to dos tools then run atapwd that simple boss post let me know whats your status

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