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[Bomb Bloke]

What is a "persistence copy"? How do you wish the thread to appear?

Edit: I've made various edits to your first post. Lemme know if I got anything wrong. I'm a bit unsure about the "renaming ltools21.lzm" thing, but that's the way I did it and it worked for me...

[ldotsfan]

QUOTE(Bomb Bloke @ Jun 2 2009, 09:24 AM)

What is a "persistence copy"? How do you wish the thread to appear?

Edit: I've made various edits to your first post. Lemme know if I got anything wrong. I'm a bit unsure about the "renaming ltools21.lzm" thing, but that's the way I did it and it worked for me...

1. I was referring to this feature:

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At the top of each topic, there is a 'Topic Options' button. Selecting 'Options' will expand the topic options box.

From this box, you can select from the following options:
* Download / Print this Topic - will show the topic in a number of different formats. 'Printer Friendly Version' will display a version of the topic that is suitable for printing out. 'Download HTML Version' will download a copy of the topic to your hard drive, and this can then be viewed in a web browser, without having to visit the board. 'Download Microsoft Word Version' will allow you to download the file to your hard drive and open it up in the popular word processing application, Microsoft Word, for viewing offline.

Then the MS Word/PDF version of the xboxhdm for dummies thread can be included as part of the xboxhdm2 download.

2. The new instructions in post #1 looks good, thanks.

[Bomb Bloke]

QUOTE(ldotsfan @ Jun 2 2009, 07:49 PM)

Then the MS Word/PDF version of the xboxhdm for dummies thread can be included as part of the xboxhdm2 download.

Word format it is!

[ldotsfan]

QUOTE(Bomb Bloke @ Jun 3 2009, 02:34 PM)

Word format it is!

Converted the xboxhdm for dummies (Word version) to PDF and uploaded to : sourceforge

[ldotsfan]

Inspired by FrostytheSnowman's 360 Modification USB Drive, I'm doing some work with FreeDOS to see if that xboxhdm's boot option 4 - DOS tools can be integrated into xboxhdm2, but replacing floppy support with USB drive of course. Will report back if the concept is sound in execution.

[ldotsfan]

QUOTE(ldotsfan @ Jun 6 2009, 10:05 AM)

Inspired by FrostytheSnowman's 360 Modification USB Drive, I'm doing some work with FreeDOS to see if that xboxhdm's boot option 4 - DOS tools can be integrated into xboxhdm2, but replacing floppy support with USB drive of course. Will report back if the concept is sound in execution.

Frosty's USB booting method proved to be uncompatible with SLAX's syslinux USB booting so this tool - the FreeDOS based hdd locking/unlocking tools for xboxhdm2 will have to be standalone from the rest of xboxhdm2 tool for now - but it will offer USB booting of course.

I'll send Frosty a PM to thank him for his idea and as I've reused files from his tool, will give him credit here as well.

Will upload the tool to sourceforge and write down the instructions on how to use. For those who have used Frosty's 360 Modification USB Drive, it's nothing new  

[ldotsfan]

QUOTE(ldotsfan @ Jun 6 2009, 01:05 PM)

I'll send Frosty a PM to thank him for his idea and as I've reused files from his tool, will give him credit here as well.

Will upload the tool to sourceforge and write down the instructions on how to use. For those who have used Frosty's 360 Modification USB Drive, it's nothing new  

Uploaded to sourceforge.
Instructions:
1. Get Frosty's 360 Modification USB Drive from the usual place and follow his tutorial's instructions to make the usb drive bootable. But point the USB Format Tool to the files from the unzipped folder from freedos.zip instead. Likewise for step 11-12 of the tutorial - to point it to the freedos folder's contents.  

2. The DOS locking/unlocking instructions - unchanged from xboxhdm.

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The first two tools require that you have booted xboxhdm to linux (option 1 or 2) and made the DOS floppy from the xboxhd tool.

    * lockhd, will prompt you to choose a drive and will lock the HDD with the password written to the floppy by xboxhd
    * unlockhd, will both unlock the HDD and disable locking with the password written on the floppy

Should the password generated by xboxhdm be incorrect (bad eeprom dump, or a bug in the password tool <- you can never rule this out completely), you should still be able to unlock the drive again with the password stored on the floppy in : input/hdpass.txt

    * hdlock, Only locks a HDD
    * hdunlock, Only unlocks a HDD but doesn't disable locking. The drive will relock after reboot if you only run this tool.
    * hdddisabl, Disables locking. To be used after hdunlock so that locking stays off after rebooting.
    * unlockx, One option locks a drive, another option unlocks and disables locking in one go. Warning! This tools has been known to not work well with some drives. I recommend hdlock/hdunlock.
    * atapwd. Good for checking the drive security status. Can also be used to unlock with the Master password. If you locked your HDD using the linux tools the Master Password is 'XBOXSCENE'. If you locked it with ConfigMagic the Master password is set to 'TEAMASSEMBLY'

[ldotsfan]

QUOTE(scullc @ Jun 9 2009, 03:40 AM)

Ldotsfan,

I have a work in progress dual boot USB that can boot Slax (xboxhdm) and the DOS tools (which i have no experience with). Early signs are good that its working (xboxhdm & FreeDOS both boot)...but remain untested.
The dual-booting is accessible from an on-screen menu and would mean you not having 2 USB sticks to have both tools on.

Are you using the kernel memdisk method in syslinux to boot both SLAX and FreeDOS? The DOS tools create a log file which in the original xboxhdm is saved to the floppy and I've chosen not to use this method as I want the FreeDOS files on the FAT/FAT32 partition of the usb drive - exactly like how Frosty does it so that the recovery log files are saved there.

I'll be interested to hear if you are using another method that serves the same purpose.

[scullc]

I am not that familiar with the details on the boot method but the great work done by fuwi led to the multiboot system Bootable USB-Drive Utility
I am pretty sure it uses the kernel memdisk method as thats within the file structure see here
I havent got as far as FrostytheSnowman's Modifications. I am stuck with an error code 09 XBOX HDD & I want to see if it can be 'rescued' with atapwd/DOS version.

[ldotsfan]

QUOTE(scullc @ Jun 10 2009, 03:28 AM)

but the great work done by fuwi led to the multiboot system Bootable USB-Drive Utility

Not familiar with that, but I'll take a look, thanks.

[ldotsfan]

QUOTE(scullc @ Jun 10 2009, 05:56 PM)

i used grub4dos to get the USB to boot using the mbr.
heres the windows grub4dos gui version which makes it so much easier.

So grub4dos boots both xboxhdm2 and the freedos tools on FAT partition?

[ldotsfan]

QUOTE(scullc @ Jun 11 2009, 05:13 PM)

grub4dos boots both xboxhdm2 and freedos (and other OS's like Puppy Linux) from a single FAT32 partition.

I've looked at syslinux but was unable to get the chainloading of kernel.sys (freedos) to work - I see that grub4dos has similar support for chainloading dos so it's a good option to attempt.

[ldotsfan]

QUOTE(scullc @ Jun 15 2009, 05:33 AM)

i managed to rescue that 'locked' 640gb HDD. The Samsung (SATA) HDD - using a SATA convertor - had been previously locked using the xboxhd CD method. For whatever reason, it would not boot (error code 09) on target XBOX drive & attempts at unlocking it using xboxhdm or xbohdm2 had failed.

I solved it by using hdparm (unlocking & disabling with Master password). Anny, the owner of the HDD and developer of my multiboot USB stick, wishes to extend his thanks for your work.

Are you saying unlocking via eeprom didn't work and only master password worked?  

Thank hdparm's authors - I merely packaged it into the tool  

[scullc]

DOS tools work! great stuff again ldotsfan
I took a stock drive, unlocked it on my chipped machine and put i on the master IDE.
I set up a dual boot on USB using grub4dos which boots xboxhdm2 & FreeDOS.
I booted FreeDOS & successfully locked**, unlocked & disabled the HDD using the DOS locking commands. After locking, i rebooted back to FreeDOS (<1 min) and predictably reported errors on trying to read HDD. I then unlocked the drive easily using the master password. I then disabled the locking using hddisab command (btw - that's different as to what's in your earlier instructions which was hdddisabl).

This means as long as you know the password - theres no need to wait 10+ mins to unlock via xboxhdm/hdparm - DOS it in less than 1 min

I then tested xboxhdm2 on the USB boot partition. It booted perfectly with the unlocked/disabled drive. I tried to lock using the inbuilt tools but failed. I seen a new line in the locking screen 'master password revision code = 32769). Have i permanently disabled locking on this drive?

I am pretty confident that the dual boot method works. If there is any demand and as long as Anny agrees (his work), we will make available a customised download for others to test/use.

** i used XBOXSCENE as the master password. It however reported that my password was set to XBOXSCENE0 (that's a zero). I ignored the zero when unlocking it and just typed in XBOXSCENE and it worked fine.

[ldotsfan]

QUOTE(scullc @ Jun 16 2009, 04:12 AM)

This means as long as you know the password - theres no need to wait 10+ mins to unlock via xboxhdm/hdparm - DOS it in less than 1 min

I have a development thread discussing the possibility of a DOS based version and the merits/pitfalls in this thread

QUOTE(scullc @ Jun 16 2009, 04:12 AM)

I then tested xboxhdm2 on the USB boot partition. It booted perfectly with the unlocked/disabled drive. I tried to lock using the inbuilt tools but failed. I seen a new line in the locking screen 'master password revision code = 32769). Have i permanently disabled locking on this drive?

I searched T13, couldn't find anything on revision code 32769. Not sure if a permanent unlock is possible - at least from the ATA specs - it is not. But   I honestly don't know. So both hdparm and lockhd failed to lock the SATA hdd?

QUOTE(scullc @ Jun 16 2009, 04:12 AM)

I am pretty confident that the dual boot method works. If there is any demand and as long as Anny agrees (his work), we will make available a customised download for others to test/use.

If you need hosting at sourceforge, I could add both of you to the xboxhdm2 project as developers. Send me a PM if you are keen.