I Did A Bad Thing.. Options

[MadeinPr]

ok i have a Xbox soft-mod that was modded using to MechAssualt hack. i accendently formated all the drives E:and C:. Can anybody help????

[HiTMaN-239]

ok i have a Xbox soft-mod that was modded using to MechAssualt hack. i accendently formated all the drives E:and C:. Can anybody help????

can you still see a video output from the xbox at all? what do u see?............ did you ftp over your eeprom like the installed told you too?

[MadeinPr]

can you still see a video output from the xbox at all? what do u see?............ did you ftp over your eeprom like the installed told you too?

i am able to boot oringal games not back ups. i dont see a xbox dash i get error 13.
i did back up the eeprom but i no longer have that eeprom on my PC. I think i have some others on my MU though. Can i use those?

[1hotjob]

I think i have some others on my MU though. Can i use those?

You need the eerpom.bin from that Xbox.

When you run the game, is there not an option to run linux?

[2 Bunny]

i am able to boot oringal games not back ups. i dont see a xbox dash i get error 13.
i did back up the eeprom but i no longer have that eeprom on my PC. I think i have some others on my MU though. Can i use those?

Your only option now at recovery is to run a gamesave exploit on Mech, Agent under fire, or Splinter Cell. From there, you can install a softmod, or apply a KingRoach NDure one manually. I am recently very familiar with this particular situation because the same thing happened to me. Only, the game was borrowed from a friend, and I had an extra hard drive, so I reinstalled it on the new hard drive with the previously activated mod.

Good Luck!

- 2 Bunny

[xboxmods2977]

If you are certain you formatted the E drive, the exploit is gone. You may be able to do a hot swap as the xbox has to unlock the HD to verify that there is no dash present but it may be difficult.

The only other option available to you is to build (or buy) an eeprom reader to dump the eeprom from the Motherboard and rebuild the HD from there.

[1hotjob]

The only other option available to you is to build (or buy) an eeprom reader to dump the eeprom from the Motherboard and rebuild the HD from there.

Or use a solderless adapter and mod chip. That is what I do with an Xbox that has a dead HD.

[2 Bunny]

Oh right, yeah, an eeprom thing will be your only option. I forgot the same thing myself when I did that - if you formatted your e drive (the xbox will rebuild this) but your gamesaves (including the hacked one) are gone. Since it doesn't sound like you can load directly from the mc for any of the exploitable titles, you will have to unlock the drive manually. If you want, some of the kindly users who posted above me have provided some tools that can help you find your hdd password with an eeprom extraction. Of course, you should've most likely backed yours up, so you shouldn't need to worry about this. If not, and you don't feel like building a reader, there are some tools that will allow you to unlock with what is called a "master password" which works on some varieties of xBox Hard drives. If you're one of the lucky few with a seagate drive, someone was nice enough to set up a whole website on unlocking it:
http://www.seagateunlock.com/
If you've got a western digital, try using the same tool described in the seagate site:
http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/
And use the master password WDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDC
That is about what I can gather from what I have figured out. Now, only getting it unlocked is half the problem. From there, you've gotta build it. The only tool that can be used for that from where you are in the hard drive's now unlocked state is xBox HDM. I'll let you look that one up on your own though, because that is pretty easy to find.

Good Luck!

- 2 Bunny

[HiTMaN-239]

Oh right, yeah, an eeprom thing will be your only option. I forgot the same thing myself when I did that - if you formatted your e drive (the xbox will rebuild this) but your gamesaves (including the hacked one) are gone. Since it doesn't sound like you can load directly from the mc for any of the exploitable titles, you will have to unlock the drive manually. If you want, some of the kindly users who posted above me have provided some tools that can help you find your hdd password with an eeprom extraction. Of course, you should've most likely backed yours up, so you shouldn't need to worry about this. If not, and you don't feel like building a reader, there are some tools that will allow you to unlock with what is called a "master password" which works on some varieties of xBox Hard drives. If you're one of the lucky few with a seagate drive, someone was nice enough to set up a whole website on unlocking it:
http://www.seagateunlock.com/
If you've got a western digital, try using the same tool described in the seagate site:
http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/
And use the master password WDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDC
That is about what I can gather from what I have figured out. Now, only getting it unlocked is half the problem. From there, you've gotta build it. The only tool that can be used for that from where you are in the hard drive's now unlocked state is xBox HDM. I'll let you look that one up on your own though, because that is pretty easy to find.

Good Luck!

- 2 Bunny

Correct me if I am wrong, but unlocking the drive with that will be useless, because you still won't have the eeprom key to lock it. And softmods need a locked harddrive.

I think it is much easier to just do a hotswap, and then use a utitlity like xboxdrive to put the files he needs on the drive (i.e. rebuild it with clean files, and exploit files).

Good luck.

[2 Bunny]

Correct me if I am wrong, but unlocking the drive with that will be useless, because you still won't have the eeprom key to lock it. And softmods need a locked harddrive.

I think it is much easier to just do a hotswap, and then use a utitlity like xboxdrive to put the files he needs on the drive (i.e. rebuild it with clean files, and exploit files).

Good luck.

Ah yes. I guess unlocking it is purposeless unless you can lock it again. UNLESS...

Here's what I was thinking, and I was reminded of this because I thought of the graphical user interface in the chimps hdd tools directly on the xbox. You have the option to unlock, lock, and disable security. My thought is, he could just unlock, as opposed to "disable security", put the files on, and then it would just be locked again as soon as he started it up. Or can you only "disable security" with that? By now, you might be asking me, "2 Bunny! Comeon man, you know that it gets locked again as soon as you restart the computer!", and I have a few plausible comebacks for that. Number one is, don't cut power to the drive as you restart the computer (I don't know a whole lot about computers, and I don't know if the power gets cut temporarily when you restart it). Number two is, get the master password from those links, and then program xBoxHDM to use it, if it can be programmed to use master passwords. Big if there, for both of them. Thats all I've got, unless you go the "read the eeprom" route.

- 2 Bunny

[xboxmods2977]

HDUNLOCK.exe will only unlock, not disable, so it would work, but eeprom still needed for that. Chimps won't work tho because it has to be ran ON the problematic xbox. The hotswap or eeprom reader would be the ticket. What he would do is hotswap to a PC just long enough to get an exploit on the HD.

Or use a modchip, as hotjob stated.

This post has been edited by xboxmods2977: Dec 7 2009, 10:33 PM

[HiTMaN-239]

Ah yes. I guess unlocking it is purposeless unless you can lock it again. UNLESS...

Here's what I was thinking, and I was reminded of this because I thought of the graphical user interface in the chimps hdd tools directly on the xbox. You have the option to unlock, lock, and disable security. My thought is, he could just unlock, as opposed to "disable security", put the files on, and then it would just be locked again as soon as he started it up. Or can you only "disable security" with that? By now, you might be asking me, "2 Bunny! Comeon man, you know that it gets locked again as soon as you restart the computer!", and I have a few plausible comebacks for that. Number one is, don't cut power to the drive as you restart the computer (I don't know a whole lot about computers, and I don't know if the power gets cut temporarily when you restart it). Number two is, get the master password from those links, and then program xBoxHDM to use it, if it can be programmed to use master passwords. Big if there, for both of them. Thats all I've got, unless you go the "read the eeprom" route.

- 2 Bunny

This is turning in to a philosphical discussion on the softmodding of xboxing. I hope the original poster is not scratching his head too much

To lock or unlock a virgin xbox drive (notice I said virgin, i.e. no user set master password), you need the eeeprom. The unlock it only, you can flash the firmware of some xbox drives as you suggested to completely override and get rid of the lock. But once it is unlocked, you NEED thee eeprom to lock it.


Connecting it to the xbox in the unlocked state will result in an error, the xbox start up procedure only unlocks the drive with the eeprom it has stored, doesn't do any Locking what so ever.


I believe the only option is a hotswap, and then using xboxdrive to gain access to the drive from the PC.

Cheers,

[obcd]

I agree, you either,

1. Try a hotswap. (I don't know if this will still be possible with a totally blanked harddisk, as the xbox will probably just unlock the harddisk for a very short time.)

2. Need the xbox eeprom contents to calculate the correct locking password for the harddisk. You can build an eeprom reader to extract those or you can temporary install a modchip.

Some of the presented information here is wild guessing by people who think a lot.
If I think that much, I have a headache by the end of the day.
I like to stick to the facts, and leave the thinking to the horses.
They have a much bigger head for that.

regards.