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Chancer

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« on: August 28, 2006, 01:49:00 PM »
Sounds like the chip is not working yet but also the drive you have is locked with a different key to the one in your Xbox. A new drive is unlocked which without the chip working would give error 5, so the question is where did you get the drive?
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Chancer

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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2006, 05:28:00 AM »
The drive is locked. get your money back the drive is history. You need an unlocked drive.
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« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2006, 07:21:00 AM »
You can only unlock the drive if you have the key.
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« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2006, 11:46:00 AM »
QUOTE(shava @ Aug 29 2006, 09:38 PM) View Post

aww what the fuck. can i just use another regular ide hd around. i might just pull one from a pc. but i thought you could unlock the drive with unlockx



to answer your question, yes you can use most any EIDE drive
you may run into some size issues if you go for one of the big new drives(500,750gig) but even that
can be worked around with some forethought.
If you grab a IDE harddrive from a pc under 300 gig, you should be able to go from there as
planned before.
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« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2006, 08:34:00 PM »
if you have a spare duox2 white chip laying around
you can use that to lock and unlock the hard drive

just go into flash bios and selected unlock then lock it

i have done this 3 times with different locked hard drives
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Chancer

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« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2006, 06:02:00 AM »
QUOTE(_GhOsT_ @ Sep 1 2006, 03:41 AM) View Post

if you have a spare duox2 white chip laying around
you can use that to lock and unlock the hard drive

just go into flash bios and selected unlock then lock it

i have done this 3 times with different locked hard drives

The drive is locked with the incorrect eeprom. That can only work if the drive is the correct one for the box.
If you could unlock HDDs as easy that people would never chuck away error 6 drives. They would simply keep a chipped xbox with flashbios on and unlock each drive.
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The WD and other style 10 GB Seagate HD can be unlocked via free software and a computer. The threads for unlocking drives are on these forms

You mean you have had this work ? I have never got them to work. One guy in newbie chat even paid the fee to unlock one drive, got the software and it never worked.
Grab a new drive or as smokingmods says use a second hand PC one but make sure the drive you use is unlocked.
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« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2006, 12:41:00 PM »
I agree with chancer, I think you are SOL with the locked HD without the xbox it was locked in.  Just get a new HD and use that one.
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