Cant Lock Hd Options

[SockoMr]

hey guys. one more question

when i use xboxhdm to lock my drive it says the drive is frozen. i dont think i can disable auto detection. any ideas?

also when i use xboxhdm2 (usb) it says it cant find my hard drive. the hard drive is set to master and all that and shows up on bios. i write this to you from the slax web browser.

thank you guys so much

[Heimdall]

There's a thread on this somewhere with more detail, but there seem to be three possible ways to get round the BIOS freezing the drive:

1. Plug the disk into the IDE cable after the PC has booted. Make sure the disk is jumpered as master, not cable select.
2. Plug the disk into the IDE cable after POST but before the computer boots from the xboxhdm CD - use Pause-Break to suspend booting while you plug in the drive. Make sure the disk is jumpered as master, not cable select.
3. Set the BIOS to primary HD = none instead of autodetect.

You've already tried option 3, so try one of the others. As with all plugging of IDE cables on a live computer, there is a risk of damage, becaused IDE isn't designed for hotswapping.

[rashid420]

There's a thread on this somewhere with more detail, but there seem to be three possible ways to get round the BIOS freezing the drive:

1. Plug the disk into the IDE cable after the PC has booted. Make sure the disk is jumpered as master, not cable select.
2. Plug the disk into the IDE cable after POST but before the computer boots from the xboxhdm CD - use Pause-Break to suspend booting while you plug in the drive. Make sure the disk is jumpered as master, not cable select.
3. Set the BIOS to primary HD = none instead of autodetect.

You've already tried option 3, so try one of the others. As with all plugging of IDE cables on a live computer, there is a risk of damage, becaused IDE isn't designed for hotswapping.

Just FYI to the original poster, I have the same problem and have tried EVERY possible way of plugging / unplugging power / IDE cable to HD before / after post / boot / prior to entering menu item 3 / after entering menu item 3 / etc. None of the ways worked, and I'm lucky I haven't fried my new HD yet. And now I have stopped trying.

Going to just think for a few days. Trying to do this in a hurry will definitely mess things up. Right now I'm hitting all my friends for an old computer that supports IDE that I could borrow to lock the drive. Hoping I get lucky. Some day I hope to find a computer with a motherboard that just works.

I must say I'm surprised no one has posted a page that lists retail computers, motherboards, BIOSes that don't have this problem, given all the trouble people have gone through to help people with XBox's, this site included. I guess we are the only unlucky ones who's computers cannot lock the HD.

Wishing you the best.

[Tosnic]

Hi Ho
Maybe I can help.
I have an self-assembled Computer (new), and I'm owning another (elder) retail PC.

On both PCs, XBOXHDM is usable only partially:

old PC: can lock and unlock HDDs (when I choose "1", it stops analysing after a few minutes, before the actual menu)

new PC: can unlock and build HDDs (when trying to unlock HDDs, the drive's security is frozen)

Thus I do the first (main) part on the new PC. Then I switch to the old PC to lock the HDD.
Be aware that there are some HDDs which do not support locking. But XBoXHDM will inform you about that after you try to lock one of those.


how can YOU do it
try another computer (ask a friend/relative)