I think I may have f'd up big time

These are basically the only two solutions left!

 

I thought if I recovered my eeprom I could use this tutorial to build a new hard drive:

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/533828

 

yep you can, but i think that chunkhead is doubting the chances of you getting the eeprom off your mem card or the old hdd and so he is suggesting your olny good chance of recovering the eeprom is with an eeprom reader. He knows alot about this stuff so he's prob right, but if you have access to another xbox i would try getting the info off the mem card and FTP see if that works. also try putting the drive in a PC and see if it is locked, mabey you'll be real lucky and the proccess stuffing up might have left the dive unlocked.

 

Ok I got my old hard drive to work, I followed the xboxhd guide TO THE T and now I get an error 6 or error 7 (depending on where I put the slave, master, cable selector thing). What can be done about this?

 

the HDD should be set as a master. If it is what error do you get? 6 or 7?

if its 6 - then the drive has been built with the wrong eeprom
if its 7 - then the drive is dead

my guess is that it is error 6 that you are getting when it is set as master. This would seuggest that the eeprom used to build the HDD dosn't match you motherboard. Where did you get the eeprom from??

 

Ok i figured out what i did wrong i copied the wrong eeprom over to the new hd, but now it is locked and it wont let me unlock again. Is there anyway to erase everything on the new hd and start over???

 

Ok now to make matters worse I am getting an error 5 message on my old harddrive!!

 

error 5 is good, it means the HDD is not locked and as such you should be able to rebuild it useing the correct eeprom.

 

So to rebuild it I just the xboxhd tutorial and use all the files that I backed up onto my computer?

 

that should be right. The main thing is to make sure you have the right eeprom on it

 

Ok this is the newest problem I am having. I get through everything but when it gives me the option to lockhd -a it cannot find the eeprom on the CD! I made sure I had the right eeprom this time by using the Liveinfo and renamed it eeprom.bin. I put it in the folder that it is supposed to be in. What am I doing wrong?

 

hmmm. not usre what would be goin on there. I guess try making anothing CD and make sure the eeprom is definatly called "eeprom.bin" and is in the eeprom folder. it should work

 

Well I FINALLY got my new hard to work. Just to give you (or anyone else reading) I copied the eeprom file from the UDATA WITHOUT renaming it and it locked perfectly fine. I just want to thank anyone who posted and got me in the right direction.

 

sweet man, good to know you finally got it workin!!