Yo, Again...
Right. Im stuck. I have hard drive for Xbox (120gb) Locked, how can I unlock it without password?
It had nothing on and is blank, I dont know if its formatted or what. The Xbox work but I dont want to start soldering.
When connected and booted with Slayers 2.5 install it comes up with Error 06.
Please help, hopefully my last post for a while!
Nitestar02
Full Version: Unlocking Hard Drive Without Password
Since I posted I found this... Can anyone tell me if it works?
From http://www.llamma.com/xbox/Repairs/6.htm
From http://www.llamma.com/xbox/Repairs/6.htm
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| Fixing Error Code 6 To fix the Error Code 6 on the xbox you will need. 2 xboxes (one that works find and your broken one) Torx 20 screw driver (to take the cases apart) Torx 10 screwdriver (to take your hard drive out with) Hard drive Y-Splitter Adapter Cable (found here) Atleast one music track on the working Xbox. Ok getting started I will be calling the broken Xbox Xbox 1 and the working xbox Xbox 2, First you need to open both xboxes. After you get them apart take the hard drive out of Xbox 1 (the broken one remember) and place it upside down on the Xbox 2's dvd rom drive. Next unplug the power cable going to Xbox 2's hard drive. Then take your Y-Splitter and connect it to both xbox hard drives and power cable you unpluged. Now plug your power and AV cables into the xbox and boot it without a game in. When you get to the Menu go into your music and play a song for about 5 secs (or the whole song it is up to you). After that back all the way back to your menu and unplug the IDE cable (NOT the power cable) from your hard drive and plug it into your Xbox 1's hard drive and try to go into a menu. It will freeze on you but this is ok. Wait until it gives you the Error Code 21. When Error Code 21 comes up power off the xbox, unplug the Xbox 1's hard drive and put it back into Xbox 1. Reconnect all the cable to Xbox 1's hard drive and boot it. It should boot fine. Now power off and put both Xboxes back together. |
Hmmmm. Seems odd but I dont actually have a second Xbox with the original Dash on it, Im working on it though... I shall let you know how I get on but let me know if it is B/S or true.
Nitestar02
ive heard of this working, never tried it myelf though. keep in mind that hotswapping is hard on the ide circuitry, as opjose will probably be along to tell you soon.
I'll beat him to it: the electronics were never designed for hot swapping. But it may work. I've not tried this method but on my web site I have a useful tutorial about how HDD locking actually works (if you're interested).
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My drive is locked and I have no idea how to unlock it, could you pleeeease help. There is a PayPal donation in it for anyone who can help me...
Many thanks,
Nitestar02
Many thanks,
Nitestar02
I could see this working if the xboxes had cloned eeproms, but I'm very skeptical. The ATA security is COMPLETELY independant of any other part of the xbox, and if the drive isn't issued a proper key it simply stays locked (Will only accept a very basic few of the ATA commands. Not enough to access data on the drive at all). My suggestion is to find the data necessary to generate the password with liveinfo. You will need the eeprom.bin from the xbox used to lock it. If this was locked in your xbox, then you will need to pop in a different xbox ready hdd in order to run config magic. With the eeprom.bin it would then be possible to determine the password with liveinfo unless you have a version 1.1 or newer xbox and used eepromer 0.45 to lock it. If you did, thats not good.
Also, always try TEAMASSEMBLY as the Master password with atapwd.exe. And hope Config Magic has ever locked it
Also, always try TEAMASSEMBLY as the Master password with atapwd.exe. And hope Config Magic has ever locked it
I've unlocked several Xbox HDD's by using configmagic to 'generate' a password.
...This doesn't usually work first time, its usually best to let it 'generate' a password several times until it gets to the point of 'generating' one lot of consistent numbers/letters.
...Try it several times just to be sure. I usually have success after trying it twice.
Once u have your password, bung the HDD in a P.C and use 'hdunlock' in DOS.
...Works a treat
If u don't like doing all this the hotswapping is the way to go.
First off, d/l 'xboxhdm' from the usual places and burn a self booting ISO.
...Disconnect your Xbox DVD drive, fire up your Xbox with a P.C running next to it with no HDD's attached.
As soon as u get the error message on the Xbox, unplug the IDE and plug it into the P.C IDE, then allow xboxhdm to detect it and follow instructions.
...Hotswapping is rather crude, but yet again it does work if u r careful and think about what u r doing.
...This doesn't usually work first time, its usually best to let it 'generate' a password several times until it gets to the point of 'generating' one lot of consistent numbers/letters.
...Try it several times just to be sure. I usually have success after trying it twice.
Once u have your password, bung the HDD in a P.C and use 'hdunlock' in DOS.
...Works a treat
If u don't like doing all this the hotswapping is the way to go.
First off, d/l 'xboxhdm' from the usual places and burn a self booting ISO.
...Disconnect your Xbox DVD drive, fire up your Xbox with a P.C running next to it with no HDD's attached.
As soon as u get the error message on the Xbox, unplug the IDE and plug it into the P.C IDE, then allow xboxhdm to detect it and follow instructions.
...Hotswapping is rather crude, but yet again it does work if u r careful and think about what u r doing.
Okay im getting 'xboxhdm' now. Im a bit confused though. This hard drive is locked with no password (I assume) as it was locked in a PC, a friends failed attempt. I cant access it in FDISK and attempting to unlock it with no password just doesnt work, so I am confused.
What does xboxhdm do exactly? Basically I have this 120gb drive, there is $20 in it if you can help with an exact answer...
Cheers,
Nitestar02
What does xboxhdm do exactly? Basically I have this 120gb drive, there is $20 in it if you can help with an exact answer...
Cheers,
Nitestar02
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| I've unlocked several Xbox HDD's by using configmagic to 'generate' a password. |
Config Magicdoesn't have a generate option. The only way to get a different HDD Unlock Password from CM is to edit the Unique HDD Key, which does you no good at all. ATA security is solid. There is no guessing passwords. I do believe that there should be a text file on your friends computer with the password used to lock it if he used hdlock.exe.
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