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Thank you for sharing this info. I really appreciate the help. I’m happy I was able to find the right eeprom.bin file to unlock the drive. thanks for shedding some light on this topic. With regards Pascal

Thank you both for your great help. I ran all the eeproms again and was succesfull in unlocking the drive in Chimp. Take care, Pascal

Thank you for your reply Dave. I'll give that a go. Hi KaosEngineer, Thank you for the information. The hdd locking code is harddisk specific as I understood, am I right? or does the hdd code that the eeprom carries not change with every new hdd that you install? This is where I get confused. once again I appreciate you're taking the time to reply. with kind regards Pascal

Hi, Love this forum and got a lot of great info from here. Recently I dusted of my good old softmod and gave this all a go again after many years. I was able to tsop the xbox and install a larger harddisk. My friends picked up on the idea of having a xbox with emustation and asked me to build one for them as well. So I ended up buying and working on 6 xboxes and harddrives that all went trough their own struggle to get the job done but hey, I made it. Thing is though, at some point I used chimp to format a 500gb WD and it locked it by the end of the session in one of the xboxes. this drive ended up not being used and now I want to use it again but I do not know what xbox it's from. Being all wel prepped I did read all the eeproms from al the xboxes trough simple serial eeprom reader. Extracted them straight of the board with no issues but the sidenote is I never did with this 500gb WD hdd installed. And this is where my confusion is, because what I understand is the eeprom is xbox specific. And the harddrive password is generated trough the hdd serial number and model based on the eeprom. (Please correct me if I'm wrong). So all the eeproms I have when I read them in live info beta 3 show me other harddrives. So I connected the harddrive to my ide port refreshed the disk managment, it pops up under disk# and I try to select it in live info without any luck. I tried running chimp in order to unlock the hdd in the slave disk options with all the available eeproms but had no luck. Basically, and I'm sorry this is a long read, I'm trying to find a way to backwards engineer my hdd locking code with the 6 eeproms I have available that all state a different make/brand/sn hdd. Thank you in advance Pascal