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| Thread ID: 39667 | 2003-11-13 09:13:00 | XBOX HARDDRIVES | slessor (3706) | Press F1 |
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| 191649 | 2003-11-13 09:13:00 | I just got hold of some seagate and western digital harddrives that were used in xbox. I cant format them because of some type of password incryption.The bios detects them but operating systems and fdisk wont detect them . Does anyone know how to get around this? | slessor (3706) | ||
| 191650 | 2003-11-13 10:40:00 | You can't. I have the same problem. Without the original x-box the hard drives were in, you can't unlock the hard drive. They are effectively expensive paperweights. Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 191651 | 2003-11-13 11:09:00 | try a program called "DELPART" its only job is to delete partions does not care about the file system that is on the hard drive it just deals to it WARNING this is a very destructive partion removal tool its freeware search on google for it |
beama (111) | ||
| 191652 | 2003-11-13 11:44:00 | Sounds good, shoot first and ask no questions. :) | Archibald (180) | ||
| 191653 | 2003-11-13 11:45:00 | www.killdisk.com Might do the trick as well. Although the protection could be flashed into the drives firmware or something, in which case you would need to get a hacked version of it somewhere. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 191654 | 2003-11-13 11:49:00 | I thought the problem was though that its locked.... Xbox scene might have something good to say if you wanna check there...! |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 191655 | 2003-11-13 11:58:00 | That'll be bloody Micro$oft trying to help piracy again. Sound like one of their stupid methods. Try Dariks Boot and Nuke It runs on a linux kernel (nudge, nudge,;-),;-)) http://dban.sourceforge.net/ |
hamstar (4) | ||
| 191656 | 2003-11-13 19:34:00 | Um, how does one "get" Xbox hard drives in the first place? | Biggles (121) | ||
| 191657 | 2003-11-13 19:45:00 | Put it this way, the hard drive is LOCKED. There is no way currently you can even detect the hard drive through the bios, so it will not boot into Linux. If you read up on it here (forums.xbox-scene.com) it claims to be able to show you how. Highly debatable though as to whether it actually works. If you read here (forums.xbox-scene.com) then you'll understand how your hard drive is locked, and why it is physically impossible to unlock your hard drive. Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 191658 | 2003-11-13 19:46:00 | That should be physically impossible to unlock your hard drive without the original x-box it came from. | Lohsing (219) | ||
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