I locked my 120 hd with a wrong pw

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:38 am

I have a softmodded Xbox, in my own stupidity I did not insert the floppy before rebooting my pc after locking the drive s now i have a 120 gig paperweight I used xboxhdm to lock my drive. Ive tried to use the master password Xboxscene in atapwd but It doesnt seem to work. Are there any other programs I can use to input the master pass or any other means of unlocking this drive.

Yes I have check xboxscene and many other forums I've seen mention of some programs that might do the job but I cant find them. If you can help me let me know.

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 3354

Depending on the drive, you might be able to download a utility from the manufactures web site that can unlock the drives. Have you checked into this?

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:12 am

http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/

Kai Regular Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 87

basically only atapwd should be able to do it. Just select "Unlock with Master Password" put that in, then "Disable with Master Password" and it shoulda worked....not much else you can do

Got this little excerpt about locked hard drives security

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In High security mode, you can unlock the disk with either the user or master password, using the "SECURITY UNLOCK DEVICE" ATA command. There is an attempt limit, normally set to 5, after which you must power cycle or hard-reset the disk before you can attempt again.

Dunno how relevant that is to your hard drive

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:41 pm

No I havent Funk I'm going to the maxtor site now thanks for the help peeps