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Title: Format Xbox Hd For Pc Use?
Post by: failurbydesign on March 18, 2007, 12:18:00 PM

How can i format a xbox hard drive for pc use?

Title: Format Xbox Hd For Pc Use?
Post by: alw297 on March 19, 2007, 01:45:00 AM

You need to unlock the drive, you can do this a number of ways, a quick search round the tutorials should show you how, if the xbox is modded that its coming out of then you can unlock from the Evox dash, otherwise Xboxhdm will do the job from your PC

Title: Format Xbox Hd For Pc Use?
Post by: Barney_1 on March 23, 2007, 05:26:00 PM

Strangely, I found this to be tough at times.  My feeling is that you must first unlock the drive (of course).  Then make sure you use a good partition program (fdisk is my partitioner of choice) to delete all the partitions on the drive.  Add a new primary partition and format it.

Title: Format Xbox Hd For Pc Use?
Post by: cobrin on March 23, 2007, 08:16:00 PM

I just use configmagic and unlock it. Then put it in the pc and go to disc management and it picks it up automatically, create a partition and format it.

works everytime no probs...

hope it helps

Title: Format Xbox Hd For Pc Use?
Post by: mr2000jp on February 03, 2020, 09:32:00 PM

use atapwd.exe and use the suitable master password for your hdd
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