Topic: To Lock Not To Lock... (Read 43 times)

admiralj · « **on:** October 04, 2002, 09:30:00 PM »

Just as a quick question to all of you - should I use hddlock to lock my 120gb xbox hdd? Are there any disadvantages to doing this?

My purpose is to get the original bios to see the new drive when i power on using the eject button on a pcbioxx (chip disable mode). I have already gone ahead and configured the dashboard .xbe files to work with an evox 2.5 bios booting to evoxdash.xbe, so that when i boot with the evox bios, it will work. What do you think i should do?

opjose · « **Reply #1 on:** October 04, 2002, 10:21:00 PM »

QUOTE (admiralj @ Oct 5 2002, 03:30 AM)

Just as a quick question to all of you - should I use hddlock to lock my 120gb xbox hdd? Are there any disadvantages to doing this?

My purpose is to get the original bios to see the new drive when i power on using the eject button on a pcbioxx (chip disable mode). I have already gone ahead and configured the dashboard .xbe files to work with an evox 2.5 bios booting to evoxdash.xbe, so that when i boot with the evox bios, it will work. What do you think i should do?

As long as you

1 - Set a master password you will remember!
2 - TAPE the "lock" password to the drive itself.

There is no reason not to.

It's pretty nice to flip the "off" switch on the mod and watch the Xbox reboot into it's "native" mode. It doesn't even know about the larger drive partition.

Flip again and you are back to Evolution-X.

Very nice.

admiralj · « **Reply #2 on:** October 06, 2002, 03:27:00 PM »

ok cool. 1 last question:
in the readme to hddlock the guy says
"Write down your password (you do not need the last 00's)"

what last 00's is he referring to. the last 2 lines of my hdd key looks like this:
line3: 6c:f1:b6:40:00:00:00:00
line4: 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00

do i stop writing the key after the 40 or after the last 0 of line 3?

admiralj · « **Reply #3 on:** October 06, 2002, 03:43:00 PM »

thanks for your input guys.

opjose · « **Reply #4 on:** October 07, 2002, 07:06:00 AM »

Depends upon which BIOS you are running.

If you use one of the ybox ones, nothing happens, you end up in the MS Dashboard, when you turn on the mod you go back to Evolution-X. Pretty nice.

If you are using something else requiring Evolution-X to be called xboxdash.xbe, then you'll get error 21/17

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