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Post Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:28 pm   
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nope still not going. tried the program above and a tool from seagate.

Still same error in Norton PartitionMagic 8.0 and alos still showing 7mb in XP


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Post Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:44 pm   
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I know kill disk should have wiped the harddrive,hmmm.
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Post Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:02 am   
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Going to get Xbox from guy I sold it to and try unlocking and formating from AID.


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Post Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:05 am   
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Oh, you didnt unlock it. LOL that could be the problem.
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Post Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:07 pm   
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Yeh I thought that. Isn't there a PC prog to do it tho?


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if you have an eeprom from the xbox you can use xboxhdm and unlock it and wipe the partition with it.
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Post Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 4:12 pm   
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Yeh I can get the eeprom from the Xbox and try that.

Will report if that works.


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Post Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:30 pm   
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All work! Put in Xbox unlocked with ConfigMagic then formated in XP with Norton PartitionMagic 8.0.

Cheers for all your help hellblazer55.

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No problem m8 glad to help a fellow admin.
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Post Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:11 pm   
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Just a question tossing out there... Is the hard drive even detecting in the BIOS at bootup? (press del or F8 to enter bios depending on system may be different)
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Post Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 4:21 pm   
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how would one unlock a hard drive ( to use for a pc ) that attemped to be modded for an xbox? The lock passwords have been lost..........is there anyway to reset this thing................also i dont really care about what is on it i just need to format this drive for a buddy ( its only a 40 gig ) but windows doesnt detect it. Any help would be useful , anybody got any ideas?


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