Topic: Western Digital Hardrive Lock (Read 640 times)

mixfevers · « **on:** March 08, 2006, 11:16:00 PM »

I know this sounds really, really stupid but I was working on taking a 40.5Gig Western Digital Hadrive and turning it into a xbox hardrive.... Well I got the ISO part for the CD done and everything but I kind of locked the hardrive as the first thing I did and I put in a manual password as 7039west well now I can't unlock it I tried going to option 4 (FreeDOS) and it keeps comeing up with an error If I go to 3 (Linux) and type in unlockhd -p 7039west it does not work.... What I need to know is if anyone can help me.

I looked online for all kinds of cracking programs and online Tut and read some stuff on xbox-Scene and none I could realy find that helped me out. So If someone could help me out and post and reply or E-mail me I would really like that. Thanks.

DaddyJ · « **Reply #1 on:** March 09, 2006, 05:59:00 AM »

whut did you use to lock it?

mixfevers · « **Reply #2 on:** March 09, 2006, 04:03:00 PM »

I used xbhdm

DaddyJ · « **Reply #3 on:** March 09, 2006, 04:10:00 PM »

xboxhd doesnt lock hard drives.

boot option 3, lockhd & boot option 4, have the ability too, so need a little more info smartass (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

mixfevers · « **Reply #4 on:** March 09, 2006, 04:12:00 PM »

I'm sorry, but I got the first part but the last part what the heck are you talking about?

DaddyJ · « **Reply #5 on:** March 09, 2006, 04:20:00 PM »

whut tool did you use to lock the drive, was it in boot option3 or 4

mixfevers · « **Reply #6 on:** March 09, 2006, 04:23:00 PM »

I used option 4 FreeDOS to lock it but.....

This is what I tried now.
I go to option 4 on the main screen (FreeDOS) and it comes up with Initdisk then it waits a few secounds and says InitDiskError reading partition table drive 00 sector 0

Now If I choose option 3 on the main menu (Linux unlock/lock)
it says try unlockhd or lockhd I try to unlock with the password unlockhd -p 7039west and it just says that that can't be a correct password with not correct variables or something. If I try to lock it it says it's already locked and so on.

If I boot into the main linux (default) and go to the options and try to Build a new Xbox HD from scratch it says disabled and not a correct choice or something like that.

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Should I reburn the ISO on the CD and see if the FreeDOS will work?

This post has been edited by mixfevers: Mar 10 2006, 12:24 AM

DaddyJ · « **Reply #7 on:** March 09, 2006, 04:28:00 PM »

the disk is definitly locked, and I dont believe the freedos sets the master password either.....
you may be stfu,

also try unlocking using the same password but use caps instead

PedrosPad · « **Reply #8 on:** March 10, 2006, 03:02:00 AM »

QUOTE(DaddyJ @ Mar 10 2006, 12:59 AM)

the disk is definitly locked, and I dont believe the freedos sets the master password either.....
you may be stfu,

Apologies if this isnt relevant, but I stumbled across this page yesterday. It covers unlocking a specific WD HDD, but the WD master password may be standard.

Xbox Hard Drive Unlocking Solutions.

This post has been edited by PedrosPad: Mar 10 2006, 11:07 AM

DaddyJ · « **Reply #9 on:** March 10, 2006, 06:07:00 AM »

good looking out pedro!

Kolk1604 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 12, 2006, 11:17:00 PM »

QUOTE(DaddyJ @ Mar 10 2006, 01:38 PM)

good looking out pedro!

Xboxhdm sets the master password to XBOXSCENE everytime you use it. Try using that to unlock it.

reab · « **Reply #11 on:** April 01, 2006, 11:42:00 AM »

Hi - Have a look at this post:
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=500909

eatdatbox · « **Reply #12 on:** April 02, 2006, 01:34:00 AM »

either that or ur going to have to boot up option for and type in atapwd and then disables this one security setting and this other lock settings. that happend to me when i tried intalling a retail 120 gig and then locked it with xboxhdm n then not disableling those options.try it.

reab · « **Reply #13 on:** April 02, 2006, 11:14:00 AM »

Never tried the ATAPWD (hope I never have to though).
Remember that your problem also is how to boot up in DOS; The XBOXHD tools don't allow proper booting into DOS when the HD is locked, neither does a MSDOS boot floppy - you'll get read errors which take ages to bypass.
I solved this by downloading the POWERMAX utility from the Maxtor site.
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/m...ondMax%20Family
Using the powermax utililty is pointless but the install creates a cunning bootdisk bypassing the locked HD read errors quite quick. Put the DOS hdlock.exe, hdunluck.exe and hddisabl.exe tools from #XBINS on this floppy.

triggernum5 · « **Reply #14 on:** April 10, 2006, 10:48:00 PM »

I've always been able to boot a dos floppy to unlock a hdd.. Dunno why yours bugs out.. Maybe bios.. In anycase, if atapwd doesn't unlock it with XBOXSCENE since you actually locked using a physical dos floppy, it can't hurt to try unlockhd -p 7039west00000000000000000000000000000000 (32 )'s.. Some locking tools were coded to only write 40 char pwd's apparently since that is all xbox accepts..

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