Really big help needed.

[desolate_one]

ok i need help and i need it fast. i backed up my old eeprom from my old motherboard onto my chip and then accidently put it onto new motherboard... whilst my hard drive was locked . now luckily i had written down the Hdd lock code but now im wondering how to unlock it inside my pc, its sitting inside the pc now waiting to be unlocked. can anyone tell me how i can do this but firstly how can i make my pc detect the drive?? becuase it doesnt seem to be picking it up. thanks for the help and anything leading to succes i shall put your rating through the roof... thanks

 

[Floppy Mohawk]

Hey,
What did you lock it with?

Your PC won't pick it up just by plugging it in. You have to get ATAPWD and make a bootdisc from it.
You can get it from www.xbox-scene.com/tools/? Probably hard drive apps or something like that.

Floppy

Also, MartinC was going through this with someone not too long ago. You can do a search for his posts. I think if ATAPWD doesn't work alone you may need to get LIVEINFO. Also available on www.xbox-scene.com and load your eeprom info into that to generate an unlock code.

The main thing it to remain calm!!

 

[desolate_one]

ive got the unlock code and my pc has detected the drive now, i wrote the hard drive lock key down also so i have that. ive got liveinfo and atapwd, but atapwd doesnt seem to pick up my hard drive. liveinfo does but houw do i use it, thanks for the help so far .

 

[desolate_one]

can anyone tell me how atapwd can detect my drive?? it isnt picking it up, if i can get it too pick up my drive then i should be ok .

 

[Floppy Mohawk]

You may have to take it off cable select and set it to master.

Also, you do realise ATAPWD is a dos program right? That's why you need to boot up with it.

Floppy

 

[desolate_one]

cheers

 

[Floppy Mohawk]

cheers

Does that mean you got it working??

Floppy

 

[desolate_one]

no that just means ive tried and my pc didnt boot it. how do i get the boot disc to work? do i put anything else on it aswell as ATAPWD? cause thats what ive just done and it didnt work.

 

[Floppy Mohawk]

You never answered how you locked it in the first place!

Hey xbins is up go to the PC section and get HDD UNLOCK and UNLOCKX and try them.

You need to read this:
Click Here

Floppy

Also these programs should be run in a pure dos environment but you can probably run them from the RUN button type CMD to get to dos.

 

[desolate_one]

then what commands do i type in?? im rubbish at using command lines

 

[desolate_one]

ooo i locked it on the x3 bios screen, just went into disk settings and clicked enable disk locking. then it locked the hard drive. i had it locked because i was tryin to sign up for xbox live but then i forgot to unlock it .

 

[Floppy Mohawk]

then what commands do i type in?? im rubbish at using command lines

DIR= directory, lists everything in current directory
CD=change directory. CD..(CD dot dot) goes back one directory. CDfile name changed directory to the one named.

To execute a program type program name.
You must be in directory that program is in or type full subdirectory listing in command.
Example:
You can type c:\evox\hddunlock\hddunlock.exe
or
cd evox, cd hddunlock, then type DIR to get all file listings in hddunlock folder then type hddunlock.exe

You may want to google dos for more info.

Damn! I must be getting old if I still remember dos commands!

Floppy