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by **ruelnov** on Thu Mar 03, 2005 5:48 am

CBL:

I have a Seagate drive previously used on an XBox and so it's locked with ATA password.

How can I remove this password using HDAT2 on a PC?

Btw, I don't know the ATA password used to lock that drive.

by **cbl** on Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:34 am

If you don't know this password HDAT2 can not help you. Look at this page
http://www.xbox-scene.net/software/software.php?page=utilities
for TA UnlockHDD utility and some descriptions or http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lock-hdd.php.

There was also another utility (atapwd, hddunlock etc.). I hope you can find these on internet or i can send these files to you.

by **ruelnov** on Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:53 pm

Have tried all these utilities, no joy.

They all require a master password to be able to unlock a drive.

Now, I'm looking for a prog that can do SECURE ERASE without asking for a master password. Would you know?

by **99none** on Sat Mar 05, 2005 7:19 pm

hi,

- tell me model of this disk
- in my xbox i fond two modells: st310014ACE and kind of WD.

by **cbl** on Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:17 am

>Now, I'm looking for a prog that can do SECURE ERASE without asking for a master password. Would you know?

ATA standard : SECURE ERASE need a password. No way to disallow entry for password, what i know.

by **cbl** on Tue Mar 08, 2005 3:52 pm

For XBOX i found this article
http://www.xbox-linux.org/Hard_Disk_Hotswap_HOWTO.

More information's is in german language
http://www.xbox-linux.org/De/Hard_Disk_Hotswap_Anleitung.

by **ruelnov** on Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:00 pm

99none wrote:hi,

- tell me model of this disk
- in my xbox i fond two modells: st310014ACE and kind of WD.

Seagate ST310211A, U Series 5

by **ruelnov** on Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:05 pm

hmm... it's a shame we cannot unlock this drive on a PC.

To unlock it on XBox would be no problem for me, but I have no XBox.

Have tried a well-known and capable SECURE WIPE prog that doesn't ask for a password even if drive is locked, still no joy. HD still locked after the long security wipe.

Any more ideas?

by **99none** on Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:17 pm

hi,

what kind of security has this drive.
high or Max
- and what is description for master passwd
- if FFFE hex try hddunlock.exe

by **ruelnov** on Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:42 am

To 99none:

Security is MAX for this drive.

HDUnlock worked, but drive still locked after reboot.

HDDisabl said Device Not Ready.

What now?

by **wvragga** on Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:16 am

for that model Seagate

http://www.llamma.com/xbox/Unlocking%20 ... 0Drive.htm

If link doesn't work, go to Xbox page, scroll down , look for drive unlocking contest...

Good Luck,

Ragga

by **99none** on Sun Nov 13, 2005 10:02 pm

hi,
- if this solution don;t working, run next solution to unlock disk
- from terminal Seagate read module 0x25

Code: Select all: 0300 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0084 9c56 31b9 c60c f7b9 a7FE 1f48 ee99 350b 0d3d 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

- but remember , passwd in hdd from x-box is 40 char ASCII.
- from: 0084 9c56 ... to 350b 0d3d.
- use hddunlock

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