Free HDD Unlock Wizard (1 day left) Posted by XanTium | June 13 10:10 EST

HDDunlock.com is currently offering their tool for free (only 1 day left tho) that allows to unlock harddrives (including some Xbox drives) without requiring the HDD-key: [QUOTE] HDD Unlock Wizard is a user-friendly application which allows you to easily unlock IDE and SATA Hard disk drives. This tool will remove an unknown User or Master password and your hard drive will be ready for use. While unlocking, HDD Unlock Wizard will erase and re-certify the drive. If you need unlocking which is safe to your data, please use A-FF Repair Station. Unlocking of a 80GB HDD takes approximately 25 minutes. HDD Unlock Wizard supports: * Unlocking of desktop drives * Unlocking of Xbox drives * Unlocking of 2.5-inch laptop drives What is a HDD Lock? All hard disk drives have the possibility to set a hardware password, thus making the drive completely inaccessible unless a correct password is provided. When you set a password on your notebook, the notebook locks the drive as well. XBox gaming consoles and some desktop computers can also lock hard disk drives. If you forget the original password, there is no way to use the hard drive anymore. HDD Unlock Wizard removes any password and makes the drive useable again, thus saving you time and money. [/QUOTE] They are currently offering free unlocks (instead of $9.95 for sub-80gb drives), but there's only 1 day left, so be quick! The Wizard will first check if your drive is compatible with this tool, but it has a pretty long list of compatible drives. I saw the 2 widely used seagate drives (ST310211A and ST310014A) on the list, however I don't see the WD80ED-28xxxx drives. Official Site: http://www.hddunlock.com Download: here Thanks to ivc for the news/link.

I got like 30 locked xbox drives, so i can unlock them all or is there a 1 drive limit, sorry for the question, i should have tried first, but I am not at home right now

I noticed in the email that the code is good until June 14. Does this mean I have to use all these codes today? Or was today just the date to get the codes and they can be used whenever?

Can someone tell me how this works? What do they do to unlock them?

lol someone needs to steal their code. If it can be done online it can be stolen in most cases

well im trying it out as we speak. it said 10mins and its been 10mins. now it says "Time Left: Soon" :/

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??

well i sent it once, didnt come. so i tried again with a alt address and that worked. i checked my other address a min later and that finally showed up. both had 2 different keys. it takes a while. just wait for it or try again with a alternate address.

I had the same problem I registered with an hotmail adress and didn't get the code then a yahoo adress and still didn't get it then I did it with my isp email and I got it then...

I hope this is not a scam to gather email for spaming.

Anyway, I'm trying to unlock now...

I'll post results afterwards.

Cheers !

Edit : 3rd time I used a 160gb card instead of an 80gb

well i signed up under 4 emails none worked.

So then i tried the for up to 500gig 1 and it came threw.

Did you successfuly unlock your drive ?

hmm,
notice that there is no card code in the email........whasshappenin'?


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

HDD Unlock Wizard
http://hddunlock.com

I think the 80gb one don't work try the bigger ones

bleugh Where you put in your email on there web page on the left it says something bout other codes under a card click there and sign up for a different size hd it worked for me.

It Works !

wow I finally unlocked that brick I had for 3 years !
Thanks Xbox-Scene for bringin this to my attention !

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...

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.

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.

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.


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

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

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.

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.


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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.............

I just finished unlocking all my xbox original hard drives. Here’s my count so far:

ST310014ACE...........................................12
ST310211A............................................... 5
WD80EB-28CGH2...................................... 5
WD80EB-28CGH1(That’s My old one)......... 1
WD400BB-00AUA1.....................................1
WD2000JB-00GVA0....................................1

Getting started was a pain but once I got going it went smooth. First I download the HDD unlock wizard and install it. My initial computer setup was:

Primary Master: 120 gig WD HD (windows OS)
Primary Slave: 160 gig WD HD
Secondary Master: DVD-RW
Secondary Slave: DVD-RW

After trying numerous variations what I finally got to work was:

Primary Master: 120 gig WD HD (windows OS)
Primary Slave: 160 gig WD HD
Secondary Master: Locked HD I was trying to unlock
Secondary Slave: Nothing

And trust me I tried them every which way. My ultimate goal was to have two locked HD on my computer at once. Every way I tried it, it told me to unplug the second device. This does not mean its not possible just that I wasn’t smart enough to do it.

After I got it set up I would open HDD unlock wizard. The first screen would prompt you to push next. One of the only problems I had was after I would push next it would bring up an error screen. Just go back in and try it again. After a few tries it would go through again. The next screen was your drive selection screen, pick your locked HD.
After that it will tell you whether you can unlock your HD or not. After that it will ask you for your card number. It will display a link to their website. This is where some other people along with myself were getting hung up. You would put in you name and email, it would send you an email, however the card code field was blank. I found the “up to 320 gig” card work every time. One quick tip, if you need multiple card codes (I could only get the card code to work once for one HD) once you click one the get code button it will tell you your email has been sent, just hit the back button retype whatever name you used and the same email. Click on send and repeat. I got 25 of them no problem. Once you get your card code enter it and in about 10 min. you have an unlocked drive.

Another tip, not for the faint of heart, once I got going I started “hot swapping” the locked drives. It was taking too long to shut my computer down, unplug, plug in, restart etc. When one was finished I would unplug the power then the cable, plug in the cable to the new one and then the power. Hopefully this helps. By the way 2 extra codes for 320 gig drives:

03B3TNF0OWM1ABGH
MAZVRNZXX0A0TIL4

Nice post but a liitle late hopefully they will have a free days later this month. I won't be able to use it as I am in the road. Ohh well. 8GB drives are worth less to me. I got 15 of them if anyone wants them 5 bucks a pop.

Well, I have to at least say it does seem to work. I had a locked Seagate and Western Digital stock xbox hard drive that it unlocked in about 10 minutes (each.) I at least owe them thanks for that. Aside from the buggy site (sending codeless emails) and the single error the program gave me (on first run) this program seems decent.

A packet sniffer showed some interesting info. None of the data transfered to or from there server was human readable (unless maybe your RainMan) but it seems to send and receive data trhoughout the unlocking process. I'm going to take a closer look at it later for my own curiosity.

Thanks A-FF for the those two 8GB drives that are useable again.

good post i had mine setup the same except i had the hdd hooked up to the ide cable on bootup. the program would detect the drive but give me an error when it was checking to see if it was unlockable. i tried it with the dvd rom method you explained above and it worked perfect and is currently unlocking a bricked 120 gig drive i have had for years. if anyones having any issues try this method you should be fine

I couldn't find this on their website, but do you loose all your data?

I haven't seen anywhere that you do but people have been talking about formatting the drive so I didn't know.

The reason I'm asking is that I have a brick 10GB Seagate stock xbox drive so if I can get my old game saves off there, cool. I'll just get them then throw the drive away because I don't have any other use for a 10GB drive.

But the way, yes I know to back up the EEPROM but this was my first xbox chip install and I fraged the mobo. Bad times.

Edit: Spelling errors

Thanks for all the posts stating how everyone got the program to work. I wouldnt post asking for help, but the free trial ends in about 7 hours. So if someone could help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.

What I have on my IDE cable in my computer:

120 gig hd with XP Pro

DVD-Rom

DVD Burner

Empty Slot

My question is: When and in what position do I put my locked 160 gig hard drive in, also is the HD set to master?

I have tried putting it in the 2nd HD slot set to master = computer won't boot up.

I have tried putting it in the cd-rom slot 1 with just the power plugged in, not the ide cable. Then once my computer boots up I plug in the ide cable. The program only recognizes 1 hd and its the main 120 gig hd.

Leave everything thats connected to the 1st ide cable alone. The 2nd ide cable needs to only be connected to the modo. Make sure the locked hard drive is set as master. Connect power cable to the locked hdd. Boot computer. At the desktop, connect 2nd ide cables primary connector to the locked hdd. Run program and it should detect your locked hard drive. Self explanitory from there. Hope that gets you somewhere. :-)

Thanks Red for the help, also like the picture icon you have.

Anyways, for some clarification if you don't mind.

1.) When you say the first IDE cable, do you mean the IDE cable that connects to the 2 HD's or 2 CD/DVD Roms?

2.) Also, you stated, "The 2nd ide cable needs to only be connected to the modo." is modo mother board?

3.) Does it matter which source the locked HD gets power from, currently I have it plugged into the 2nd HD slot.



Thanks again, I hope to hear from you or another intelligent person with the clearification.

works fine come one people we need a crack for this app

****, what time does it end? I have a locked 80 GB hard drive, but I can't find it!

According to the tool, it destroys all data on the drive.

i did a little packet sniffing...

it looks like the app communicates with the following address: secure.a-ff.com:5411

it looks like a-ff.com is a parent site of hdd-unlock

I dont have time tonight to play around with this, and i dont know where i would start, hopefully someone w/ some knowledge comes along who knows whats going on.

I've got logs if they'd be of any use to anyone

All the hdd unlocking info is stored on their servers.
The codes they're giving you are temporary passwords to access their servers (and the appropriate hdd unlocking routines).

If you wanna take a whack at cracking & accessing their server info, you might want to take a look at their A·FF repair station software as well since this is the program they created to unlock hdd's over the internet. This new stuff is just a beta version they're trying out.

Hehe...you can enter your email as many times as you want to...but they end tomorrow here are some that im not using:

This code is valid till June 14, 2006,
and can be used to unlock a drive up to 500 GB:

MNJYB5XJ4X3102J2
U6K6JWSEVQAPXJ4Y
AH5NIV9V2P96CWJ2
YNIV20DNBWM3CZHL
T9QRM7MSY37SHLI9
O20HW1YJGXWQU5PK
FVNB8G20NMPPSXOL
DX7HQB9D3HD1R9P2
A6Y9Q7U2M6NZ2AD7
ANFCR5TGLB30TEAW
HU3W6OAOHZMZG1YQ

Well You could (maybe) find the al-gore-ithm with these if we set up a submissions page or something...just my 5 cents

-EzG

That was a heck of a tool, i was able to unlock 20 diferent drives i had around, nice!

Yeah, I just noticed that when I went to unlock my hdd.

As I said before, I don't have any use for my locked 10GB hdd except to get my game saves off of it so that makes this tool useless for me. However, the parent site, a-ff.com, also has another tool called Repair Station. According to the site, repair station will unlock the hdd without disturbing any data.

GREAT!! Except that it costs.

As with hdd-unlock, it offers licenses. These licenses range from $49.50 for 1 unlock to $2499.95 for unlimited unlocks for a year.

I don't know if my game saves are worth $50 especially when I've already made about half of them up already.

If anyone decides to use Repair Station tell me how it worked for you.

BTW: Why in the world do they type currency with commas such as in $49,50? idk, I just seems strange to me.

your crazy....well it's your pc not mine..........i was over my friends house one time. and he tryed to plug the molex cable(power) in a hdd set to slave when his pc was on, and blew his master hdd. maybe he's just cursed but after that i would not attempt personally...

Guys,

Actually, several days ago I have started a topic on this forum about our project, but it wasn't noticed...

Let me comment about the codes. Many of you have noticed that our system sent empty codes.
That is because some guys wanted hundreds of them (for some reason), so they got'em all. Codes just needed a refill :-).

If you have any questions - feel free to ask!

By the way, could you please remove our email addresses from your quotes/posts? We do not like spam as well as you guys.. Thanks!

I noticed that unlocking xboxdrives is now completly free, thank you, since I was unlocking my drives till 3:00 AM, and I had to sleep with 20 more xbox drives.

I was able to unlock 30 XBOX hdds which were from the past 4 years!
Thanks again for your great tool!

you can use HDDUNLOCK now to unlock all your xbox drives!!

Yep, I saw your first post within minutes of you posting it... also noticed all the "ads by google."
Very nice of you guys to include xbox-scene members in your beta testing. Thanx.
Now your new software renders my brand new custom built slim seagate unlocker useless.