hay sorry to bother u all with this stupid questions i am trying to upgread a hard drive with a soft mod but can't seen to get it downpat

this is what i did

Connected the new drive to your computer as primary slave

Copy unlockx.exe to your dos boot disc

Disconnect your main computer's harddrive and connect your orig. xbox drive as primary master.

Use unlockX to unlock your original harddrive (i think it unlocked)

reconnect the computer's original drive as primary master and connected the orig. xbox drive as secondary slave.

Opened HDD Driver and backed up the orig.xbox drive
Then Coppied it to the new drive

used unlockX to lock the new drive (i think it worked)

Stuck it back in and bump! ERROR 06 pls tell me what i did wrong i need help pls

but how do i find the hdd password for the new drive so i can type it in i used the orig.xbox password found it in configmagic

that just crossed my mind

you need to find the hdkey for your new hd. you can find it by using liveinfo & your eeprom (from your backup folder, evox=>setting=>backup).

wait, wait, wait...

hdd keys arent drive specific!

...

are they?

yes, they are

QUOTE ({later} @ Dec 29 2003, 02:02 PM)

yes, they are

that doesnt make any sence since the ata controller is just sending an unlock command over the bus to unlock the drive, and all ata-6 drives confirm the ata-6 spec, then it whould be standardized, so it wouldnt be any differnt between drives...

The lock key IS drive specific. I have a lot of experience with softmods, what you need to do is get liveinfo and use the eeprom.bin that evox creates when you do a backup. you can then use liveinfo to generate the lock code for the new drive.

The Hard drive key is drive specific since the key is based on an algorithm that gets info from many parts of the xbox console and figures it out. including data from the soon to be unlocked drive. so when you replace the hard drive, the new drive WILL need to be locked with a different key.

Read the tutorials on this site i know they are their, ive used them

(Has Soft Modded Xbox with larger drive)

i cant believe that i over looked that...

its like one of the few things, thanks guys, i have been endlessly hacking at the 120gb hdd, and tonight i may sleep.

can someone huide me through the process of locking a hdd using the method in this thread?

get unlockx and lock it. you need the hdkey to lock it so that it works on your xbox . If you ran the backup option in evox before, there could be a folder call "backup" in that folder, there is the text file that has your hdkey. you can use that key with unlockx to lock the hd. or if you ran backup option in evox or in configmagic or you saved the eeprom of your xbox, you can use liveinfo with your eeprom to find out the hdkey. then use that key to lock the hd.

still working it out can't get the hd to lock y is that i am useing unlockx it says it is locked but config magic says it can't be locked (btw it is a 8gig WD out of another xbox)

if you plug the hd into a xbox and it loads like normally, it is locked unless you have a modchip. If that is the case, I wouldn't worry about configmagic . however, I would backup that eeprom and and hdkey and save it somewhere.

i tried using unlockx and it says the drive is unlockable

try hdlock to see if you can get it to lock. btw, not all drive can be locked. check yours here for some idea.
http://www.merkosh.de/xbox/xboxhdd2.htm

indeed

but that list is outdated

two (newer) lists by ivc and lookformeb can be found in general HW tech chat in a pinned topic with a title on the topic of hdd lockablity.

these lists have submition forms