Harrdrive issue.....please anyone

[corey9]

Money in return Harddrive issue

Hi,
I have a v1.0 xbox with a X3 chip installed. I have a 200 gb seagate hdd. My problem is that i had my xbox going for a while now, but i was trying to figure something out in my Avalaunch dashboard. I was going through the settings and i had ENABLED EEPROM changes. Then just today Febuary 1, I went to restore eeprom and my xbox turned off and all hell broke loose. I went to turn my xbox back on and nothing. I was getting frags green and red and then just solid red. So i figured it was an eeprom issue so i went and found another bios called Yoshi-final-256k-2005.bin :: For Xbox v1.0, v1.1, v1.2, v1.3, v1.4 and v1.5. I flashed from my flashbios 3.0.1 screen and it worked fine. The only thing is that i get an error 13 which is my dashboard not loading. This Yoshi bios said it had an eeprom key fix. It fixed the audio and video but my harddrive is not accessible. I tried to use my slayers disc to unlock my harddrive but no luck. I get a unlock error in my settings on my slayers disc. I put the disc in before it reads my harddrive so i could access my slayers disc. I'm thinking that the new bios took over mine or something.

Also: when i go to my flashbios 3.0.1 screen i get a message like this "Unable to generate password from eeprom- corrupt?

unable to get first sector, returned 1
unable to get first sector getting partition table

Please someone help...i don;t know how happy i will be or how thankful
The reason why i really need this fixed is beacause i have 57 games saved on the harddrive right now.

Thanx for the help if given any

 

[sb122606]

do you have a copy of eeprom.bin in the x3 from when you had the 200Mb hdd installed if so just boot/reflash with 1959 and use Config Live to restore.

or do u have a copy of the same eeprom.bin file on your PC...if so boot x3 1959 and configure ftp. transfer from pc eeprom.bin to admin folder and then use CFL to restore.

Without the original .bin file i think you will have to lose the data on your HDD if u want to use the HDD again (u have to virginise it). Unless there is something very clever out there thats just been written

 

[Mad-Man-666]

If you don’t have you EEPROM. There is a DOS program that sometimes can unlock a hard drive with out the locking key. I found it on xbox-scene and it worked for me a few times it all depends on your hard drive and the kind of key it has. But I can’t remember the name it’s something like HHDLock/Unlock.

 

[kimosabe]

if he just got a new bios, then new settings would appear erasing his old settings, making his hard drive unlocked and the Microsoft dash inaccessible. wouldnt he need to lock it through the FlashBios screen? Theres an option to Lock/Unlock.