Microsoft Xbox Repair Manual page 64

How to unlock your Xbox HD on a PC and use it afterwards as HD for your PC (v0.4)
** UPDATE: this tutorial explain the 'old' manual way to unlock Xbox harddrives. You can now
use homebrew Xbox apps to easily unlock a drive with 1 button click. ConfigMagic can unlock
harddrives, but also newer versions of EvolutionX dashboards and also all 4th generation
modchip OS'.
If your Xbox is broken or if for any other reason you want to unlock your Xbox HD on your PC
you can use this method but you will still need the hdd password.
Once a drive is unlocked, you can format and use it in a normal PC **
First of all download the hdd unlocker here:
http://www.xboxscene.com/tools/tools.php?page=harddrive
Then connect your original hdd to your Xbox, using Evox, get your hdd password. (In the
evolutionx dash go 'system utils' then 'backup', this will make a directory called "backup" on the
C drive of your Xbox. "hddinfo.txt" will contain the HD key)
Once you have it, it looks like this:
01:23:45:67:89: AB: CD: EF
01:23:45:67:89: AB: CD: EF
01:23:45:67:00:00:00:00
00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
Rewrite it as follows:
0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF01234567
Yes delete the last zeros and print it out, you will need it. Now you have to boot DOS (Bootdisk).
Go here http://xbuck.free.fr/softs/wxpboot.exe for a bootdisk that works with Win98-WinXp.
Once downloaded execute it, enter a Floppy disk in your computer. It will make that disk a boot
disk.
Then add the files: hdunlock.exe, hdunlock.pas, hddisabl.exe, and hdddisabl.pas to the bootdisk
just created.
Now, turn off your computer, set your Xbox hdd to SLAVE, and install your Xbox hdd in your
computer.
Turn on your computer with bootdisk inserted, and it will ask you to press a key, then press a key,
and you are in A:\>
Type in hdunlock and press enter
Select your Xbox hdd, and enter your hdd password it should say DONE
Type in hddisabl
Select oyur Xbox hdd, and enter your Xbox hdd password it should say DONE
Congratulations you have unlocked your Xbox hdd for formatting.
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