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bluespot

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« on: October 18, 2002, 09:02:00 PM »
Sort of an addition to msuy2k's question...

The idea would be to lock your brand new 120 GB HDD (or whatever you've got), and use a ybox BIOS, so when you disable your MOD, the xbox will boot normally from the original BIOS???  Has anyone done this?
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msuy2k

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« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2002, 09:19:00 PM »
uhh.gif How did u guess exactly what my configuration is.
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bluespot

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« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2002, 10:05:00 PM »
heh, must be my incredable psychic abilities muhaha.gif

so have you tried to lock your HDD?  What happened?
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« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2002, 08:52:00 AM »
The locking password is a combination of the hard drive serial and xbox serial, and is stored in the eeprom.. When you swap hdd's you also swap 1/2 the serials used to create the password, hence making the locking impossible. You can't have your cake and eat it to, the regular bios will only boot with the factory hdd.

This has only been stated on these forums a million times, next time read.
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« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2002, 03:39:00 PM »
WiKKiD what are you talking about,I have successfully locked 8 new hard drives 80 gigs to 120 gigs of all diffrent makes to 8 diffrent xboxs using the latest evox and the ybox bios and a switch to choose between the orignal dash and the evox dash.What you must do is get the password from the new hard drive and lock it and not try and lock the new hard drive with the orignal hard drive password as every time you connect a diffrent hard drive to the same xbox the password changes everytime.
Use a program like unlockx to lock it and you will have no problems at all,
and select backup in the latest version of evox to get the password
Hope this helps you
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« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2002, 04:09:00 PM »
ok guys plz dont flame but what is ybox? Just a sentance or two and ill figure out the rest.
Only thing I can think of is another bios like evox
Thanks

Note, I figured it out with a little more searching, I got a lota results, then I search only the titles, heh figure that j/k
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opjose

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« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2002, 05:34:00 PM »
Raising hand....

I did I did, 5 120 gig WD 1200DJ drives locked.

And they will even work with the original MS BIOS when locked!

The only problem is that with the original bios the F: drive is of course not visible to the Xbox.

In a way this is very fortunate, since USB devices appear as hard drives and are automatically formatted. The first time I flipped the old bios back on I was awaiting the "formatting new media" message on the original Xbox Dash (it does this with USB hard drives btw!) which never appeared.

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opjose

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« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2002, 05:36:00 PM »
QUOTE (forcelite @ Oct 19 2002, 10:09 PM)
ok guys plz dont flame but what is ybox? Just a sentance or two and ill figure out the rest.
Only thing I can think of is another bios like evox
Thanks

Note, I figured it out with a little more searching, I got a lota results, then I search only the titles, heh figure that j/k

                                    The normal OEM bios starts up the Xbox then launches a file called xboxdash.xbe.

The ybox bios instead starts up a file called yboxdash.xbe.

Get it?

Mod chip on, launch yboxdash.xbe
Mod chip off, launch xboxdash.xbe

Wax on, wax off.
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Loup72

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« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2002, 08:39:00 PM »
QUOTE (kingken @ Oct 19 2002, 09:39 PM)
WiKKiD what are you talking about,I have successfully locked 8 new hard drives 80 gigs to 120 gigs of all diffrent makes to 8 diffrent xboxs using the latest evox and the ybox bios and a switch to choose between the orignal dash and the evox dash.What you must do is get the password from the new hard drive and lock it and not try and lock the new hard drive with the orignal hard drive password as every time you connect a diffrent hard drive to the same xbox the password changes everytime.
Use a program like unlockx to lock it and you will have no problems at all,
and select backup in the latest version of evox to get the password
Hope this helps you

                                    I tried to use the tool

1) Got my key from my new HD

2) Plug my HD into my PC

3) Boot from floppy

4) Select my HD from the list

5) Enter the key


But I get "Device not ready"  ...     unsure.gif  Any idea why ?  uhh.gif

Thanks

/L
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« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2002, 09:06:00 PM »
Loup72 --
 
Did you check with ATAPWD to make sure that your drive isn't already locked? And to make sure that it accepts security commands?

There are some drives that don't, but very few.

Also, some people have posted with the same problem, and they were able to overcome it with using another computer
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opjose

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« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2002, 09:19:00 PM »
There are far more MOTHERBOARDS that don't accept the locking commands than drives that reject it!

Also you must boot from a DOS floppy to do this, and you must have REJUMPERED the drive to correspond to your PC.

Remember to rejumper it back after you are done.


ATAPWD is the way to check to see if you will be able to do this with your motherboard.

I found I had 3 Pentium 4 machines with Intel 850E motherboards that under no circumstance would lock the drive.

ATAPWD reported the drive "FROZEN" with a master password already set on the FREEZE.

I took the same drives and moved them over to an old ASUS Intel 440 motherboard and I had no trouble locking the drives.

ATAPWD reported them unlocked and unfrozen on the 440's.

Go figure.
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s_lipowitz

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« Reply #11 on: October 19, 2002, 10:17:00 PM »
QUOTE (opjose @ Oct 19 2002, 08:19 PM)
There are far more MOTHERBOARDS that don't accept the locking commands than drives that reject it!

                                    Ya know, your right.

This would then explain a lot of the situations back on the xboxhacker.net boards of PEOPLE having issues doing this (due to their motherboards), even with the same drives as others.



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s_lipowitz

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« Reply #12 on: October 19, 2002, 10:31:00 PM »
QUOTE (Loup72 @ Oct 19 2002, 09:23 PM)
and guess my Western Digital on an Intel MB reports "Unlock" , "Not lockable" .

                                    Yea, go for another motherboard/pc.. I do not know of any Western Digital drives that have problems with being locked following the tutorials
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« Reply #13 on: October 20, 2002, 12:09:00 AM »
QUOTE (Loup72 @ Oct 20 2002, 04:23 AM)
Thanks s_lipowitz and opjose ! BTW I just found a new tool that does it all :

UnLockX.exe Ver 2.0  on http://www.xbxonline.com/  

and guess my Western Digital on an Intel MB reports "Unlock" , "Not lockable" .

I guess I will have to try with another PC.

mad.gif

                                    BTW what motherboard/bios did you try it on that failed?
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« Reply #14 on: October 23, 2002, 07:03:00 AM »
I have a Maxtor 120gig 5400rpm drive and it is also reporting it as being "unlockable." I put in the original hard drive and it shows as lockable and locked so I dont think it is my motherboard. Im guessing there is no way to get this thing locked? Are there any other 120 gig hard drives that are lockable?
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