Post by: nugznmugz on April 04, 2006, 09:20:00 PM
Anyhow, a friend of mine had an Xbox that since got fried, and I replaced the mother board and PSU for him. The new motherboard came with its original hard drive so I had no trouble TSOPing it, but when I pluged in the pre-modded HDD from the previous Xbox I realized that it is still locked with the old motherboards EEPROM HDD key.
Has anybody come up with anything to universally unlock HDDs yet? It seems like I remember glancing at something like that a few months ago, but I can't remember where I read it at.
Post by: xboxbman on April 05, 2006, 04:42:00 AM
QUOTE(JrracinFan8 @ Apr 5 2006, 12:57 AM) 
Is the stock drive? If so which one? WD? Slim Seagate?
I've got a WD that's locked. If you have a fix, I'd love to hear it. I'm currently looking for a compatible mobo I can solderthe old eeprom chip onto to unlock it. If you have something easier, that'd be helpful. Itried HDUNLOCk.EXE, with wdcwdcwdcwdcwdcwdcwd as my password, but no dice.
Post by: alexmspqr on April 05, 2006, 04:53:00 AM
QUOTE(xboxbman @ Apr 5 2006, 11:49 AM)
I've got a WD that's locked. If you have a fix, I'd love to hear it. I'm currently looking for a compatible mobo I can solderthe old eeprom chip onto to unlock it. If you have something easier, that'd be helpful. Itried HDUNLOCk.EXE, with wdcwdcwdcwdcwdcwdcwd as my password, but no dice.
The WD80EB (stock western digital) can definitely be unlocked with that password. It is meant to be all in capitals though and the version you used was too short, it's meant to be:
WDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWD
I don't think you can do a master password with hdunlock either just the user pw (the WDC... pw is the master password) use atapwd to unlock it.
If this doesn't work it probably means you have locked it with one of the tools that sets the master pw so try TEAMASSEMBLY (set if you use config magic) and XBOXSCENE (can't remember what it is but something sets this as the master pw, maybe newest versions of evoX???).
EDIT:
QUOTE
Has anybody come up with anything to universally unlock HDDs yet?
There is a company with software to do it, that works pretty much universally, but it costs $50 a pop.
Post by: JrracinFan8 on April 05, 2006, 05:20:00 AM
Post by: xboxbman on April 05, 2006, 05:24:00 AM
QUOTE(alexmspqr @ Apr 5 2006, 07:00 AM)
If this doesn't work it probably means you have locked it with one of the tools that sets the master pw so try TEAMASSEMBLY (set if you use config magic) and XBOXSCENE (can't remember what it is but something sets this as the master pw, maybe newest versions of evoX???).
EDIT:
There is a company with software to do it, that works pretty much universally, but it costs $50 a pop.
I locked it with slayer's 2.6 Anybody know if there is a master password for it, or does it just use the WD master. I will try with ATAPWD. Hope it workks!
Post by: nugznmugz on April 05, 2006, 08:45:00 AM
Second, it is a PRE-MODDED WESTERN DIGITAL from the previous Xbox. It was locked with a SmartXX LT. The chip was damaged so there is no way to recovoer the EEPROM short of desoldering the programable chip from the LT and putting it on another one (something I'm sure as hell not going to do...).
The original Xbox was a 1.6. The new one had been assembled from spare parts and is now a 1.0. Like I said; as is, the 1.0 Xbox works with its STOCK HDD. It does not work with the MODDED one.
Post by: nugznmugz on April 05, 2006, 10:41:00 AM
That first part wasn't for you alexspqr! Actually you've helped me quite a bit and I'm very grateful!
I'll try it out and let you know what goes down.
Post by: lordvader129 on April 05, 2006, 10:59:00 AM
QUOTE(xboxbman @ Apr 5 2006, 06:31 AM)
I locked it with slayer's 2.6 Anybody know if there is a master password for it, or does it just use the WD master. I will try with ATAPWD. Hope it workks!
evox should set the master password to TEAMASSEMBLY
Post by: JrracinFan8 on April 05, 2006, 05:35:00 PM
QUOTE(xboxbman @ Apr 5 2006, 06:11 PM)
i unlocked one of my Western Digitals with TEAMASSEMBLY. the other refuses to unlock with WDCWDCetc., XBOX-SCENE, XBOX-LINUX or TEAMASSEMBLY. I've tried varieties of all of them, but no dice....but I got an xbox for my buddy today and it's a 1.2, so i'm going to remove the eeprom from the broken modo and unlock the leftover WD.
try with no hyphens.
Post by: xboxbman on April 05, 2006, 05:41:00 PM
QUOTE(JrracinFan8 @ Apr 5 2006, 07:42 PM)
try with no hyphens.
i did....
Post by: catdog2 on April 05, 2006, 10:39:00 PM
http://www.llamma.co...0Drive.htm#slim
Post by: alexmspqr on April 06, 2006, 01:26:00 AM
QUOTE(catdog2 @ Apr 6 2006, 05:46 AM)
The WDCWDC.... password works on a stock western digital using SECURE ERASE - you cannot just unlock it with that password. The result is that the drive is unlocked, but the data is also gone.
http://www.llamma.co...0Drive.htm#slim
Post by: alexmspqr on April 06, 2006, 04:35:00 AM
QUOTE(xboxbman @ Apr 6 2006, 11:27 AM)
Well, after unlocking the Western Digital, I put it in my xbox, only to find it locked again. I tried atapwd again, and now that doesn't work. Any ideas?
Yeah, sorry should have said this already. If you unlock a drive it will lock again when it loses power. If you want to stop it doing this you need to disable the locking (another option in the atapwd menu). If done correctly the + underneath the E should be set a -.
Can't remember if you're putting this in a chipped or softmodded box. If you're putting it in a chipped box do what I said, otherwise you need to unlock it and then lock it (user pw) with the hdd key for that xbox.
Post by: xboxbman on April 06, 2006, 05:07:00 AM
QUOTE(alexmspqr @ Apr 6 2006, 06:42 AM)
Yeah, sorry should have said this already. If you unlock a drive it will lock again when it loses power. If you want to stop it doing this you need to disable the locking (another option in the atapwd menu). If done correctly the + underneath the E should be set a -.
Can't remember if you're putting this in a chipped or softmodded box. If you're putting it in a chipped box do what I said, otherwise you need to unlock it and then lock it (user pw) with the hdd key for that xbox.
I did disable the lock. Or at least I selected that option, and now the password has changed. I unlocked it with TEAMASSEMBLY the first time, but now nothing works.
Post by: alexmspqr on April 06, 2006, 05:30:00 AM
Post by: xboxbman on April 06, 2006, 02:54:00 PM
QUOTE(alexmspqr @ Apr 6 2006, 07:37 AM)
The master password shouldn't ever change unless you explicitly set it (or something like config magix/evox explicitly sets it). There is a maximum number of attempts at the master pw (5?? maybe) after this the hdd must be powered off. If you were playing around with it this could have happened.
unfortunately, right after unlocking the hdd, i placed it immediately in the xbox, which told me it was locked. The first attempt at unlocking it with the same code said it was locked. A mystery worthy or Sherlock Holmes.