My xbox finally kicked the bucket so I junked the thing but kept the Western Digital HDD. The drive is locked and I want to unlock it so I can use it in my pc. Is there anyway I can unlock this drive without the xbox?
Before I tell you the bad news let me ask a few questions. Was this xbox softmodded and/or do you have the eeprom bin file? Cause if you do then the procedure is easy. If you don't, and you just had a vanilla xbox that died and you want the 8 gig or so HDD as a slave for your pc, no dice as far as I googled. If you still have the motherboard and want to build an eeprom reader and get the file, then it also is doable. If you know someone that has a chipped box and they hotswap it and then unlock it with AID or something, that would work I think. It is a small drive (assuming we are talking about the stock drive) and really not worth the effort.
yeah exactly the case the 8 or 10 gig drive isn't worth all the hassle. I have a good number of them from modding so many xbox's. If you want one i'll send ya one free if u pay shipping. Really the drives aren't that great and u can buy a 300 gig 16mb cache drive for about 100 now.
Right, except that it isn't a NTFS file system or FAT12/16/32 for that matter, it is like xfat or something weird like that.
http://www.llamma.com/xbox/Unlocking Seagate Xbox Hard Drive.htm#WD Force unlocking.. destroys all data. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/357863 getting the eeprom.. what data can possibly be worth having on a stock 8.6g drive?
In response to DLyon4's question, the xbox was first moded using the Xenium Ice mod chip then the chip failed and I softmodded the box using AID 4.5. And yes, I do have the eeprom.bin (I did a backup in evox) file but its on the HDD which is locked so I don't believe that would be of any help right? BTW: I was just planing on using this drive for a little extra space, since I got it i figured why not use it. But if I'm going to have to go through the hassle of building that eeprom reader then I think Ill pass But if anyone knows any other ways to unlock it I'm definitely listening.
