i have a 200GB seagate harddrive that i tried to lock in unleashx, but for some reason there was an error when locking the harddrive and now when i start up it reads error6. I have a bakup 80gb harddrive and the original xbox harddrive, but i dont want to lose the data on the harddrive if at all possibly, is there anything that i can do to save the harddrive
6 - kernel - Cannot unlock HDD If you understand the above, you should be able to understand what this means. It means you are trying to boot up the xbox with an harddisk that is locked in combination with ANOTHER motherboard than you are using it with right now. What can i do about it, you ask? Well place the harddisk back in the xbox where it came from. After that, UNLOCK the harddisk with the same procedure i will explain below(see error 5). Now when the harddisk is UNLOCKED, put it in the xbox which gave you the error. Now when you boot up with the chip ON it should not give you an error anymore. However when you put the xbox on with the chip OFF your xbox will give you an error. (error 5) So to make sure you can boot original and boot with the chip ON. Next do the same as above: "Boot up your xbox with the chip on. Preferrably with a slayer evo-x cd. Now you choose "Eeprom management." Than you choose: "Lock hdd." It takes one second. After its ready it should say something like "Done" When it is ready just turn off your xbox. Disable your chip and try to boot original. Now there should be no more error. 5 - kernel - HDD not locked (The retail xbox bioses require the hd to be locked) When you upgrade your hard disk drive for one that is larger, you most of the times use a new hard drive that you bought in the shop. Now, when you put this hdd in your xbox and you try to boot up with your chip off. It gives you error 5. Why you ask? Well i will try to explain it simple. The original (also called "Retail") hard drive is locked by MS. Why did they lock the harddrive? Well if it wasn't it wouldve been more than easy (in the start of xbox hacking) for hackers to change content on it. Thats why MS locks it. It is just a security measure. This locking proces uses information thats on the motherboard. The "Lock" on a xbox hard drive contains information that is based on the harddrive itself and the motherboard it came with. One thing that makes this clear: You can not change a retail harddrive with another one from an other not modded xbox. With every xbox there is only ONE i repeat ONE compatible harddisk drive. That is, if they are locked. If you don't mod your xbox (tsop or modchips) you can not change harddrives. Not even from another xbox. However when your xbox IS modified you can change your harddisk for almost every other harddisk (thats UNLOCKED). This means that even when your xbox is modified, you can not just put another (retail) XBOX harddisk in your xbox. However some smart people made programs that can lock or unlock your xbox harddisk on the fly. So when does the error occur? The only time this error should occur is when you boot up your xbox in original mode AND you have a harddisk in your xbox that is not yet locked. So now you ask what do i have to do to make your xbox work again? Well the answer is pretty easy. Boot up your xbox with the chip on. Preferably with a slayer evo-x cd. Now you choose "Eeprom management." Than you choose: "Lock hdd." It takes one second. After its ready it should say something like "Done" When it is "Done" just turn off your xbox. Disable your chip and try to boot in original mode. Now there should be no more error 5.
thanks for the insight, but i do know a little about what im doing so i understand how a locked hard drive only works in the xbox it is locked to. The harddrive i am having trouble with was never in another xbox but the one that has an error 6. I had upgraded the xbox from an 80gb harddrive and to the current 200gb hardrive. The method i used was to format and build the hardrive with slayers and then copy over the E folder and unleashx files onto the new harddrive. I used the xbox for a while without it being locked becuase i hadn't needed the xboxdash. When i was in XBMC I noticed my xbox wasn't running in HD(i have the cables and an HDTV that outputs in 1080i). So i went into the XBMC settings and changed it, but in 1080i the screen went black for some reason. I checked the xboxdash through the UnleashX dashboard and hd was all enabled. I decided to go into the xboxdash with the chip disabled, this was when i noticed my xbox hdd was not locked. I would have normally used my copy of slayers to unlock the harddrive, but I left it at school. I looked into the unleashx setting becuase i thought it had an unlock/lock feature and it did. I selected lock and thought everything was fine, but thats when i recieved the error 6. I don't know anything about how locking/unlocking works on the technical side, but do you think unleashX locked it to an incorrect eeprom. If so could i find out what eeprom it used with my old backup 80gb hdd becuase its basically a copy? Im not really sure what to do, i have looked all over and found nothing. At first i really wanted to save the data, but now i just want to svae the harddrive.
