Fatxplorer 2.5.1.14449 Serials M
Carmel Kittell
I've a softmod 1.6 where I'm trying to fill the 2TB replacement HDD with all my game backups. I'm finding FTP painful so thought I could connect the HDD directly to windows PC and access through FATXplorer. When I try and connect the SATA 2TB xbox HDD to my PC through one of the SATA connections, when I then boot the PC, I get an Asrock BIOS message that there's a locked HDD attached and to enter the password. I've tried 32 x 1, and TEAMASSEMBLY without success. I then read my original eeprom_original.bin and entered the original key and that was no better. Do I need to hotswap the HDD? I don't think my PC does hotswapping.
HDD key is not the password HDD key, model number, and serial number are used to derive the password. Not sure what you mean my hotswapping. Do you mean your removing your windows drive to put your Xbox drive in?
Apologies, HDD password and hot plugging, rather than hot swapping. I'm trying to connect my Xbox HDD to my PC to copy files to from my windows drive. The BIOS is not accepting anything I enter as a password and if I try and connect the drive after the PC has booted, I can't get windows or FATXplorer to detect it.
Since it's softmodded already use ftp to dump your eeprom.bin and unlock the drive with it. If you don't have the eeprom.bin already on the drive use one of the many tools for softmods to dump it to the hdd and use ftp to get it on your pc. After that no more hotswapping required. Evox dash has the ability to backup your eeprom.bin to the hdd. Just remember to relock the drive before putting it back in the xbox. If it's not accepting the password you are typing in, tell fatxplorer where your eeprom with the load from eeprom option just unlock it with that. It will store the password for future use.
What's interesting with the BIOS prompts when the drive is connected when the PC boots is that it first asks for user password and then asks for master password which I presume is prompted after the previous failed attempts, but regardless, nothing I enter for either user or master is accepted. If I did manage to get it accepted by the BIOS then windows and FATXplorer would be able to detect it.
This file includes the HDD Unlocking password as well as the HDKey used to compute the unlocking password. The password itself is cryptographically computed using the XboxHDKey, hard drive model and serial number.
Edit: Easier to connect the upgraded Xbox SATA hard drive using a USB2.0-to-IDE/SATA adapter. This method allows the hard drive to be connected after the PC has booted. Run FATXplorer 3.0 beta and with the Xbox's downloaded eeprom.bin backup file unlock the hard drive.
Yes, I tried all the rescans after hot plugging in device/disk manager and diskpart. I don't think it was ever going to be discoverable really if the motherboard BIOS already had it down as a locked HDD so don't think it was ever getting past the BIOS no matter whether I connected it before or after the OS loaded. Just as a side note, according to the official motherboard hot plug procedure, I saw that it's the power that's meant to be connected before the data (even though I'd already tried it both ways at that stage).
I'm sticking an empty drive into the PC to install W7 so I'll have a go with that Evoxdash while it's installing to see if I get somewhere. It's strange that the BIOS requests the 'User' password and then the 'Master' password. Which password is the one I'll get off the hddinfo.txt I'm wondering.
I tried pulling the data and the power from the DVD drive but neither unlocked the HDD unless there's a specific moment during the flubber startup I should be doing it as as it was I was pulling the cables as soon as I saw it. Is there no other way I can unlock the HDD and then pull the power on the xbox and take the unlocked HDD out? I did the backup in the evox dash but it's changed my IP and I can't seem to be able to establish an FTP connection to it.
That's what I was gonna say. Theoretically, it would keep the EEPROM from locking the drive again. However, I know one of the pins has something to do with power (like how the Xtender mod worked when picking a HDD to boot from) If that comes out before the rest of the data connection, it may not work... also, I'm afraid of bricking the firmware that way. I don't know if that's how it works though.
As long as you have the proper eeprom.bin file backed up to relock the drive, I'm pretty sure it is possible to unlock the drive with the xbox using config magic. Just be careful not to change any settings and just unlock the drive. This should allow you to use it on pc and then use fatxplorer to relock the drive when you're done.
Couldn't get FTP going at all through the router with EvoX but eventually managed to get the hddinfo.txt with a direct connection. Tried my 315ba78963891265fa85140e614385ff746fa04d HDD password on the PC but it was not accepted. So I installed config magic and interestingly that app shows the HDD password with all the letters in upper case. At at this point though, I just unlocked the HDD with config magic and turned off the xbox.
I now have the HDD open in FATXplorer on the PC, but is there a 137GB limit setting somewhere on this as when I try and copy files onto 800GB free space of a partition it tells me I've only 40GB of available space?
Your best option then might be to backup your c, e, and f drives. Then use fatxplorer to recreate the drive using the option for Cerbios. In doing so you can point it to the locations where you saved the files from each drive during the backup and it will copy the files back for you.
Essentially create an xbox hdd backup folder. In this folder create C, E, F folders and copy the files from each partition in to these folders. Then when recreating the drive you can point to these specific folders for each partition and Fatxplorer will put the files back into their proper folders on the newly created hdd.
Before I copy any more, I can't see any mention of Cerbios in FATXplorer. I'm new to all of this. I saw mention that Cerbios now available for softmodded consoles and project Stellar chipped devices but I'm not sure how to flash it onto my system. But even after all that, what would the advantages of Cerbios give me? The only thing I've taken note of is the possibility of deleting the DVD drive which I might be interested in doing so that I could use a shorter IDE cable and leave the DVD drive disconnected, although I'm not even sure if I've got that fully correct.
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