HDD Unlock Wizard, Note: 'Free' offer no longer valid. Options

[Rana]

How does this work ..
all I got is an email with this:
>Thank you for your interest in HDD Unlock Wizard.
>
>Your Free Virtual Card Code:
>
>This code is valid till June 14, 2006,
>and can be used to unlock a drive up to 80 GB.
>
>
>Let us know if you need any assistance.
>Please also let us know if you have any comments or suggestions.
>
>Happy unlocking!
>
>Sincerely,
>HDD Unlock Wizard Support


I tried to connect the harddrive Samsung SV3063H to the 2nd Controller Slave Port and
the drive isn't showing up at all in the program... to unlock it...

[orakle]

I tried to get a code 3 times with different card sizes, and none of the three e-mails I received contained one. What a fucking tease.

Edit: I tried one last time on a 320gb code and it worked. Yay.

This post has been edited by orakle: Jun 13 2006, 04:09 PM

[r1sky]

Did you successfuly unlock your drive ?

still waiting, been 30mins. but i think the drive is just dead or something. i dont quite remember what happend to this drive really. im gonna have to try another drive that i know works and is locked.

[syntaxerror329]

Gezz ripped off again. Thier crappy web site cant even get me a code for thier own software let alone getting me the code for the hard drive key.


-----------------------------------------------------------
Thank you for your interest in HDD Unlock Wizard.

Your Free Virtual Card Code: (Duh we ran out of codes)

This code is valid till June 14, 2006,
and can be used to unlock a drive up to 80 GB.
-----------------------------------------------------------


I want my money back!!!
Oh yeah it was free. Here comes the spam now they got my email.

[r1sky]

i just tried again as i typed this to get another code for 80gb and it worked. i got 5 codes now.

edit: i just tried my 2nd drive and its unlocked

edit#2: i just popped the unlocked drive on my xbox and it works. i had to format to access the new drive

This post has been edited by r1sky: Jun 13 2006, 04:41 PM

[XDelusion]

I really with you didn't have to go on-line in windows to dot his crap.

ANyhow, they are not sending me any E-mails either.

[LostIt]

Most of the time it seems they don't send any codes in the emails (even though there is a label for one in the email.) This program seems awfully fishy. I tried running it after I installed it and after i pushed the next button which allowed it connect to the internet (which is strike 2 after the fishy no-code emails) it said it had an error. I restarted it and it got past that problem allowing it to recognize my drives.

Quote from their Home page.

All hard disk drives have the possibility to set a hardware password, thus making the drive completely inaccessible unless a correct password is provided.

WRONG! I wish all hard drives were capable of being locked. Obviously these people haven't been around long if they think that statement is true.

BACK UP your EEPROMs people. Then, hopefully, you won't need money hungry programs like this.

Remember it is (supposedly) beta software meaning bugs are quite possible. I hope it does work as I have a couple stock hard drives that are still locked because I didn't unlock them when I installed the new, larger drives into those boxes and my old laptop hard drive crapped on me (the only place I backed up those EEPROMs.) So it would be nice to get those 2 or 3 drives avaible as replacement stock drives.

I appreciate the free trial but the way their software AND website works is BS. If it wasn't free, I'd wouldn't pay a dime for it.

I feel sorry for the people with locked large drives that have to rely on this. Good luck people.

[Retroplay]

they sent me a email which was supposed to have the trial key...And it didnt. I have emailed them and im waiting for response.
Anybody else have this problem??

Same here the email did not contain any unlock code.
I've tried the 80gb and the 500gb.. no dice.

This post has been edited by Retroplay: Jun 13 2006, 05:45 PM

[yankefish]

i have a maxtor 250 gig hdd that was locked by my fragged xbox, how do i get this this hdd to be detected in my bios. once i install it it shows up in my bios, after saving and restarting i get an error that says hdd failure, press f1 to go to setup or f2 to continue can anyone help me plz

[shinomen]

After submitting my email 5 times I finally got a code. It's working on unlocking it now. Too bad this isn't something the scene could have come up with for free. Oh well, it free today.

[yankefish]

After like 10 attempts i finally got it to work, windows detected my hdd, hdd unlocker said 18 minutes, so i'lllet everybody know how it works on a maxtor 250 gig diamond plus 9 drive in a few, hopefully somebody from the scene can crack the program to work without the card code. Hint Hint, would save alot of people time and money

[heyjoe71]

I was trying to unlock a 160g maxtor and the program said I had to have the drive set to Master. but if I set this drive to master my other drive w/ windows on it wont boot. Ive had this brick for over 2 years. Can someone please help me!

[HomerSimpson79]

Why not using the old serial way?
st3001a hdd unlocking for free in 10sec:
/2
S006b
R21,01
C0,570
W20,01
on hyperterminal.

[red8316]

Tried it out and it worked alright for me. I had a WD400 40 gig drive that I pulled from an xbox. Had quite a bit of trouble at first try to get the drive on the right ide cable, set to master and getting the comp to boot with it on with my windows drive as secondary master. So what I did was just leave the wd400 drive powered on but disconnected from the ide cable during the boot up. Once into windows I plugged in the ide cable and the program was able to pick up and format the drive just fine. As we speak, I'm having windows format the drive to NTFS.

As for the codes, I had no luck with getting them with the smaller sized "virtual cards". I was only able to get codes for the 160 gigs on up to 320 gigs. Otherwise I was getting emails with blank codes.

Here is one I can share as I don't need this one. Expect this one to be used quickly ...

Your Free Virtual Card Code: ZI263ROCSO7IPXQM

This code is valid till June 14, 2006,
and can be used to unlock a drive up to 250 GB.

[stalkster420]

i idid'nt seem to have any problems other then trying to figure how to use it. my pcs kinda old and would not boot with the locked drive set as slave,master,ect. this is what i did maybe can help a few people having problems. let me say first of all the ide cable from mb to hdd is a 2 device. the one to the cd-rom is a one device.

1.put locked hdd in pc hook up the molex cable(power) not the ide make sure the jumper on the hdd is set to master.
2.boot up pc let it start up all the way.
3.have your email code and start up the unlock program. at this point carfully unplug the cd-rom drives ide cable.
4.plug it in to the locked hdd. and fallow the wizard.
5. when its done shut down the pc. plug the ide cable back into the cd-drive. at this point you can remove the hdd that now has been unlocked. and throw it in you chiped box with a copy of a.i.d to format it. or format it for pc use.............