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View Full Version : Anyway to unlock a hard drive w/out the key or an XBOX?
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premiumg May 04, 2004, 11:01 PM My friend's modded Xbox was not working right, so we unmodded it and sold it after taking out the hard drive. The hard drive was still locked though and I forgot to get the key. Is there anyway to unlock it on a PC without the key? I just want to be able to use this drive again. freakit May 15, 2004, 09:10 PM did you ever unlock it? Answer: Why Not May 15, 2004, 10:06 PM nope no ways... not even a super freak with the it can do it hehe :Ds... freakit May 15, 2004, 11:29 PM this a$$hole again. Get a life Lorenz carloscamila Jun 04, 2004, 07:17 PM what key are u taliing about i still have the xbox but i have no idea how to unlock the hdd. JammHU Jun 09, 2004, 02:44 PM Without the key that HD is now a paperweight. Sorry. Answer: Why Not Jun 09, 2004, 05:15 PM ussally, the password is written on the hard-drive Boot section (MBR) so youy could try to use a windows 98 dos startup disk to format that whole hard-drive using the MSDOS format and see if it will overwrite that partition too... then reformat it to FAT/NTFS later... QWERTY Jun 13, 2004, 03:39 PM Ignore Answer: Why Not because his advice won't work. He's just a sexually confused moron who doesn't know a thing. (Naturally, we can all expect him to response by spelling names backwards and calling everyone queer. That's all he's good at.) lumbie Jul 02, 2004, 05:39 AM will not work as the pc will not reconize the drive while its locked kof2000 Jul 02, 2004, 07:04 AM buy another xbox or borrow one then get the infos/pass/key with config magic then return it or refund, it might work. zevdogs Jul 03, 2004, 03:11 PM what about this????swipe a very strong magnet over the harddrive this will remove all data from it ,but i dont know if it would still be useable. i have some locked drives from other xboxes,ill try this and let you know what happens The Wizzard Jul 06, 2004, 03:00 PM Put the hard drive in a PC and see if it is recognised by the bios when the PC boots, don't worry about looking in windows it won't be there. Then boot to the dos prompt and use the fdisk utility. If this can see the disk you're OK ( Make sure its seeing the new disk not any other disk in your PC). Use fdisk to delete the partition/s and then reboot the PC (It may show the disk with an unknown system on it). Go to fdisk again and recreate a FAT32 partition or use Windows XP to create an NTFS partition and the reformat the disk. For Fat32 use the command format ( be very careful which disk you format make sure its the one you've just installed) for XP, format the disk from within XP. |