Hello guys!

My friend gave me a hard disk from his old xbox, I'd like to install it in my pc, but it's locked and I thought i could just unlock it connecting it to my modded xbox, but evox (booting from cd) shows that the HD is not accessible, i can not unlock it that way.


Can any 1 please tell me, is there any way to unlock the hd, to format it and use it in pc?

thanks.

You can't without his EEPROM...simple as that.

We usually put them in a pc as the only hdd and boot from a windows 98 boot floppy, run fdisk and blitz everything off...they come from chipped xboxs' though, so maybe they aren't locked anymore. I thought that locked was default but maybe I'm wrong..Try it out, nothing to lose...

A locked HD will only respond to the unlock command and password. You can't do shit with a locked HD until its unlocked with the password.

without the EEPROM, the only chance you have of unlocking the hard drive is if the drive was locked using ConfigMagic, in which case you could use the default TEAMASSEMBLY password to unlock it, but from your story, it sounds unlikely that this is the case.


retail hard drives are not locked by default, and using a hardmod (like a modchip or TSOP flash) allows you to use an unlocked hard drive in an xbox. there's no way to do what you said with a locked hard drive.

Thanks all for the replies.

it's a pitty to waste a HD like that, cos my mate's motherboard doesn't work, so that old xbox can't run anymore, it wont even show the green screen, it turns itself off after 2 seconds. looks like there's no possibilities to get the password

How big of an HD is it? You can usually find 250GB for $80 USD on sale. If it is the original 8GB or 10GB, a hard drive of that size is pretty useless. That'll barely hold 1 dual layer movie DVD and not even 1 hour of DV video.

id like to find a 250 gig harddriive for 80 bucks.do you know anyplace that has them for that price?

Try here for a 250GB:
http://dealmac.com/deals/Seagate-Barracuda...more/90726.html

And here for a 200GB:
http://dealmac.com/deals/200-GB-IDE-hard-d...m-70/91629.html

or here for a 200gb
http://shop1.outpost.com/product/3492233?s...CH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

Thanks alot guys

Yeah guys you're right as usual..the ones we tamper with have had the security level changed by chipping/formatting...sorry... I do the soldering not the setups