mikees1971 Xbox-HQ Newbie Xbox Version: v1.4 Modded: xecuter 2.6
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject: locked hard drive
hi,
can anyone help at all?
i have a seagate barracuda 250gb hard drive that is locked to a completely dead motherboard.
the board is completely destroyed so willnot be able to get the eeprom from the chip.
is there any way i can unlock this hard drive to use again?
i am not bothered about losing the data as i will be formatting before installing into a new box anyway.
thanks for looking and your time
mick
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject:
If you want a nice empty hdd you can try this.
1. Connect the hard drive as primary master (remove the jumper)
2. Create a bootable floppy with ATAPWD.EXE on it.
3. Boot from the floppy and launch ATAPWD.EXE select the WD80EB drive and press enter.
4. Select ERASE PREPARE and then ERASE UNIT.
5. Enter the master password: WDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWD
6. It will give you a Busy error, that means it is erasing the drive so please dont turn off the computer.
7. After 30min press F5 to refresh the list and you will see that the drive has become unlocked
If that works for you let me know.
mikees1971 Xbox-HQ Newbie Xbox Version: v1.4 Modded: xecuter 2.6
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject:
yeh that would be great unfortunately i do not have a floppy drive and am having trouble finding a boot cd for this
wes213 Administrator
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject:
Solder the eeprom chip in a working xbox and use it to unlock it.
mikees1971 Xbox-HQ Newbie Xbox Version: v1.4 Modded: xecuter 2.6
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject:
wes213 wrote:
Solder the eeprom chip in a working xbox and use it to unlock it.
have already tried that one and its the eeprom chip that is faulty
wes213 Administrator
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:56 pm Post subject:
Thats all i got for you man sorry.
JJLuchiano Xbox-HQ Elite Member Xbox Version: v1.4 Modded: xecuter 2.6
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject:
mikees1971 wrote:
yeh that would be great unfortunately i do not have a floppy drive and am having trouble finding a boot cd for this
You can pick up floppy drives dirt cheap at places like Frys Electronics. _________________
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