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[gokussj007]

ok.. first... get the atapwd, hdlock, hdunlock, hddisabl...utilities.... put in a blank floppy

second... get the gamesave exploit of evox and use the utilities of evox to backup your xbox's info...  ftp into your xbox and copy and paste your backup folder that was created by evox... now.. look at the text file.. that contains your xbox's OEM HDD key... save it... write this down...

The Replacement Drive must be one that is Lockable...
third.. download liveinfo... click load eeprom and select the location of the backup folder created by evox.. and pick eeprom... ok... now there are two sections to this program.. look ignore the top... go to the bottom and search for the replacement drive you want to install.... (it should already have been on and setup on the computer since bootup.. or if you have winxp or 2000 you can go to device manager and keep refreshing them... until you see the replacement drive...)   when you click on your replacement drive.. it will generate a key for that drive.. this key will fool your xbox into thinking it's the original.. so save this key also... write it down...

fourth... download hdprepar... the program that partitions the replacement drive with xbox characteristics.... well just zero the first 4096 sectors.... hey be careful... I have a Maxtor 80GB HDD that stores my OS and the one I have in my xbox now WD80GB... so using this program.. it's tricky cause two 80GB HDD?.. which one do you choose?... I took some time figuring this out.. I noticed that the WD80GB displays a lesser amount of space than the Maxtor 80GB...  so you see... be careful.............  once this is done...

fith....get the HDD_Drivers... by T00G... u know what I'm talking about.. the annoying program that is almost impossible to really detect your xbox's drive after the hot swap method.... By the way you do not need to do the hot swap method as you will soon see...  ok.. remember the floppy of the hdd utilities I asked you to create?.. well here we go.. time to use them...  

Alright shutdown pc... take your xbox OEM HDD out and place it on the Primary IDE cable.. no other devices should be using this cable... oh be sure to set the XBOX HDD's Jumper settings to Master... ok.. u know your HDD with the OS?... place that one on the Secondary IDE cable... mines was set as master for this cable....  

now.. turn on your pc... u can skip the detection of the discs... I just want you to be able to boot a bootable disc.. I used my old M$ 98 startup disk... to get me to the command prompt... once there... put the hdd utilities floppy in.. and type atapwd... this will take you to a screen.. we just want to make sure we can see our devices... if you don't see it.. u most likely need to refresh the screen.. there's a key there.. read the bottom panel for specific intructions on that... ok.. look for your xbox OEM HDD..  you'll see it... now... press Esc... and we're back in the command prompt... do the following:
A:/hdunlock.exe
in there another little GUI pops out.. press the # that corresponds to your xbox's OEM HDD.....  it will then ask for the password... type in the password you got from evox hddinfo.txt... e.g. f39ead.....  (ignore the ':'  and don't bother putting the zeros after u come across :00: everything at that point and after.. ignore zeros...).. ok... after this.. press enter.. it should say done...
now check atapwd again.. look at your xbox OEM HDD.. and SELFXV.....under L it should now say '-' sign.. .meaning you unlocked it... press Esc again...

now u need to use hddisabl.exe... do the same as above it will ask for the password again...  moments later... Done... use atapwd again.. and now the E has a '-' sign under it also... we want this to happen 'cause when you reboot your PC... we don't want the HDD to be locked again.. that's why you disable it from locking...

ok.. reboot your pc again.. log onto windows xp or 2000 again... hey I don't know about win2000 users but if you're on an xp computer.. it's gonna take a while loading the settings.. you'll see what i mean.. don't worry you'll be able to go on windows.. soon...give it time... once in windows... run HDD_Driver... it might say an Invalid File Size.. error.. lol... good news for you.... it's reading the xbox OEM HDD.... but anyways.. don't click on that error.. just go to the top and click backup the hdd... u need about 8-12 gb of freespace on your OS HDD... 8 gigs max.. if your xbox.. only has the dashboard... and like no saved games... if you know what I mean... ok... so... let it make the backup.. should go really fast.. like 30 mins at the most.. hey guys... uhmn.. careful... HDD-Driver.. one time was actually trying to backup my OS HDD... I knew this 'cause I was taking extremely long.. and I was looking at the backup file... where I saved it... and it had passed the 30 gb range.. so.. surely something wrong... (don't backup anything unless you see the invalid size error... ) if you don't get this error.. then don't back it up unless you see the the partitions.. and information.. like the files in the xbox.. on the left panel...

ok... it finished backing up?... good.. put in the replacement drive.. remember we used hddprepar?.. lol.. this is gonna fool HDD_Driver into thinking it's the xbox HDD again...  well replace the xbox OEM HDD with this one.. with the same jumper settings...set it on master... go to device manager and refresh the devices... until you see the new drive... if you don't you might need to reboot... it should then work...

Back in windows.. or already in windows...ok... now.. run HDD-Driver... it's gonna say that invalid size error.. I am almost definetly sure about this one... ok.. now... don't click ok to the error.. just go to restore.. and select the backup file of the original xbox...  and then you will have some options.. to restore the whole hdd or other sections of the drive... u will see what I mean... if you didn't have any saved games before... just click on system restore part... other wise click whole.. the system restore.. goes so fast...lol.. like 5 mins... and you're done...  ok.. hey.. guess what you got and exact replica of your xbox OEM HDD except.. u need to lock it now...

reboot with a bootable floppy.. for me.. it was M$98 startup disk.. used command prompt.. and slide the hdd utilities into the drive and type atapwd.. u'll now see the new HDD.. if you don't just... refresh the screen again... ok... press Esc.. then run hdlock.exe

ok select the # that corresponds to your new drive and then... enter the password.. u got from live info... u have two different keys on you by now... u have the xbox OEM HDD key and the replacement HDD key that was generated by liveinfo... ok.. do as above.. lock your drive.. before you press enter make sure it matches exactly what liveinfo gave to you... and.. it's gonna create a text file in the floppy containing these utilities.. save it... on another computer or something...hey.. u did it .. your replacement drive is locked... verify with atapwd to make sure...

take the replacement drive and slide into xbox... don't forget to put as cable select.. and turn the xbox on.. without a  game and it should... load the M$ dashboard...

that's it... it worked for me.. it took me two days to get this... it was all HDD_Driver's fault... it wasn't actually reading my xbx OEM HDD... but now that I see it.. it shouldn't take more than 1 hr of your time if you know exactly what you doing... hey my xbox.. I never put a modchip on it.. I never soldered anything.. that thing ...the only thing I touched was the HDD... now.. it has my WD80 gb HDD no modchip.. just playing around with complex loader... peace out..

[brandonopolis]

I'm tempted to try this. 8GB is not enough .

[dubey]

im WD40gb wont lock ;_;

[brandonopolis]

How can you figure out if it will lock or not?

I think my 30GB drive that I am backing up is a Western Digital... But so is my Xbox HDD...

[brandonopolis]

Anyone? I want to try this, but I want to make sure I can lock my drive before I do all the work.

[brandonopolis]

Well, I made it to the part where I have to "Restore" my new HDD.

I use hdprepar on the drive, zero the first 4096 sectors or whatever, but HDD_Driver doesn't see it as an xbox harddrive. I chose the Restore option regardless and the little Status window is running. Let's hope it's not restoring to my OS harddrive   That would suck so bad.

[gokussj007]

it should say most likely say invalid file size..on the new hdd

[gokussj007]

so... how's everyone doing with this?..

[brandonopolis]

Got my spare WD 30GB drive in my xbox right now

[IntestineMan]

I never did, and still cannot get hdprep to write a HDD so HDD Driver thinks its an Xbox HDD. I always have to hex-edit offset 0x600 to BRFR.

Maybe hdprep doesn't work on some PCs.

[gazbro]

Can i anyone tell me where those lock files are located in xbox's harddrive because i cant unlock my original xbox harddrive with unlockx or hdunlock even if i have the right key from evox backup folder, so i was thinking about hotswapping the original drive and then i would make a backup of it with hdd driver and then restore the backup to my new harddrive, i was just thinking that will the new drive be locked then also, If the restore copys all the stuff including bootrecords and that kind of stuff.
Does anyone know how i could install new harddrive in a safe way so that the only option for unlocking is hotswapping.

[KamelRed]

QUOTE (gazbro @ Jul 29 2003, 12:53 PM)

Can i anyone tell me where those lock files are located in xbox's harddrive because i cant unlock my original xbox harddrive with unlockx or hdunlock even if i have the right key from evox backup folder

Eh the key Evox gives you is not always the right one...I had the same problem too. Just connect your OEM xbox HD to your pc, use the Liveinfo program with the eeprom.bin that evox makes in the backup folder and that will give you the correct key.



This post has been edited by KamelRed: Jul 29 2003, 05:31 PM

[fearce]

btw, you only need to lock your new hard drive to run xblive.  I currently have a 120GB maxtor replacement, not locked, and play originals and backups, booting to MXM just fine.  

I can also run the MS dash to set HDTV and audio prefs as well.

[KamelRed]

You need the HD locked if your using the font exploit  .

[gazbro]

nothing anymore, i got the new harddrive working.

This post has been edited by gazbro: Jul 30 2003, 06:40 PM