unlock xbox hdd

hackmodford · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:04 am

My old xbox project is going away

I want to use the 250 GB hdd for something else.
I can't power the xbox on. Is there a way to unlock the drive from a computer? I have the key stored safely away. I was hoping there was a program that could do it instead of xboxhdm (boot disc) I
I have a mac any ideas?

griehm · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:41 pm

hackmodford · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:43 pm

My xbox has been softmodded. The xbox locks the HDD so it can't be used on a computer. I need to unlock the drive but have to use the xbox to do it. I can't power on the xbox anymore. Is there a program that I can give the key to to unlock the hdd?

griehm · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:39 pm

Well I guess you do learn something new everyday.

I would have no idea. Given that I didn't even know the Xbox locks the HDD... The best advice I can give you is to grab another Xbox.

hackmodford · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:08 pm

That's not the point.
I want to throw the xbox away but keep the "upgraded" 250 GB HDD that I used and use it as a normal drive.

griehm · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:48 pm

Ah, I was unclear-
Grab another Xbox, and use that one to "unlock" the HDD.

hackmodford · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:35 pm

That doesn't work because the hdd is locked to the mobo. They're an inseparable pair. If the hdd is unlocked it wont work with the mobo. If it is locked and is in a mismatched Xbox it can't unlock it...

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griehm · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:00 pm

Wow, that really sucks.

Format the drive? External enclosure, disk utility.

Harlequin · **Joined:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:20 am **Posts:** 170

Sorry, sorry.. should have been on here a while ago to answer this.

download a copy of xboxhdm (xbox hard drive manager) and in the readme it should tell you where to place the file eeprom.bin. there is an option (also covered in readme) to unlock the hdd. I think it is unlockhd -e.... can't remember off the top of my head. There is also an option for disablehdd or something like that

the two options do two different things. One unlocks the drive, the other disables the lock. I believe you will want to do both. if you locked the drive with xboxhdm to begin with it should also set a master password of xboxscene or teamassembly as well.

but yeah, the easiest way to unlock the drive is to use xboxhdm.

DcMc · **Joined:** Sat May 28, 2011 9:22 am **Posts:** 2

Make sure the eeprom file is "eeprom.bin" and not "EEPROM.bin". Xboxhdm doesn't like it to be capitalized. I figured this out after I burned about 3 CDs.

ttsgeb · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:39 pm

I would just suck it up and use xboxHDM, but then again, if you don't have a computer suited to that anymore, I can see there being an issue.

Any particular reason you don't want to use the boot disk?

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