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[trickster009]

Okay, so I have an Xbox with a dead motherboard.  That Xbox has a sweet 300 GB HD which I want to use in another Xbox.

I have the EEPROMs both for the dead Xbox and the working one.  My thought was that I needed to unlock the 300GB HD with the dead Xbox's EEPROM and relock it with the EEPROM for the working Xbox.

I created an XboxHDM CD with the EEPROM to unlock the HD.  Using that I used the floppy creation option under xboxhd, 6) then 7) to generate password and create floppy with that password.  I hooked up that HD and using the floppy ran hdunlock.bat.  This asked me for the password, which I thought was unusual because the password was supposed to be saved to the floppy, but then I remembered that there was also an automatic "XBOXSCENE" password created or something so I used that.

The floppy seemed to think it worked, so I tried to run xbrowser on the supposedly unlocked HD but it couldn't find the table.  So now I was afraid I unlocked my HD with the wrong key - is that possible?  So now I went back in with the floppy and relocked it, it again asked for a password and I used "XBOXSCENE"; this time it created a log file hddpw.txt which simply contains "XBOXSCENE0".  I really hoped that it's back to its original condition.

What do I do?  Please tell me I haven't annihilated my HD.

[kingroach]

best way is to create a cd/dvd and use unlockhd -a command.. in you backup of xbox there should a text file containig hd unlock password.. its like ( 123hgssh22jk3h etc).. you need to type that password to get it unlocked.

[trickster009]

Thank you, fortunately I didn't annihilate the Xbox... I kind of did what you said in that I used the unlockhd -a right off the CD, but since I had the eeprom.bin on it I didn't have to type in the password manually.  Then I reburned the CD with the eeprom.bin from the working Xbox and ran lockhd the same way.