dtomcat Posted December 8, 2023 Report Share Posted December 8, 2023 My HDDs arrived to catalog XBL content. For those that mod or repair OGs… please look into pinecone to catalog content Doing my part lol 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted December 8, 2023 Report Share Posted December 8, 2023 2 minutes ago, Dtomcat18 said: My HDDs arrived to catalog XBL content. For those that mod or repair OGs… please look into pinecone to catalog content Doing part lol That's a shitload of HDDs. What exactly is it you're trying to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted December 8, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2023 Catalog all XBL downloads (map updates, roster updates, etc) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted December 8, 2023 Report Share Posted December 8, 2023 4 minutes ago, Dtomcat18 said: Catalog all XBL downloads (map updates, roster updates, etc) Oh to make them available to people in one location? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted December 8, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2023 I dont exactly know. I’m just cataloging it (adding the data to spreadsheet type of stuff) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted December 8, 2023 Report Share Posted December 8, 2023 9 minutes ago, Dtomcat18 said: I dont exactly know. I’m just cataloging it (adding the data to spreadsheet type of stuff) Well right on! Are those all white label drives? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted December 8, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2023 Yes. All white Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted December 9, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2023 Holy Moly!!! This is a lot of work! LOL every drive so far has been locked. So I need to use it's serial connection and issue commands to spill the beans (i.e. Password) then unlock it ... have a few back apples as well. 34 of the 63 down 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted December 10, 2023 Report Share Posted December 10, 2023 12 minutes ago, Dtomcat18 said: Holy Moly!!! This is a lot of work! LOL every drive so far has been locked. So I need to use it's serial connection and issue commands to spill the beans (i.e. Password) then unlock it ... have a few back apples as well. 34 of the 63 down ... Where did you source these drives from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted December 10, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2023 Ebay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted December 10, 2023 Report Share Posted December 10, 2023 Just now, Dtomcat18 said: Ebay In what situation would their firmwares all be locked? What is their capacity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted December 10, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2023 not firmware locked... it's locked from Xbox. it's the xbox lock I have to remove via serial... because who knows what HDD key is LOL no eeprom backups so i'm having to trick the drive into giving me the password to unlock it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted December 10, 2023 Report Share Posted December 10, 2023 19 minutes ago, Dtomcat18 said: not firmware locked... it's locked from Xbox. it's the xbox lock I have to remove via serial... because who knows what HDD key is LOL no eeprom backups so i'm having to trick the drive into giving me the password to unlock it ... I am so confused, Cat. Why are you using these stock drives to catalogue XBL data? Could you maybe explain a little bit more what it is you are trying to do and how you are trying to do it? Also, the serial method for removing the HDD key? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoTeamScotch Posted December 10, 2023 Report Share Posted December 10, 2023 Awesome work, dtomcat! It's great that we have tools like Pinecone these days to streamline the preservation process. I hope you find some missing goodies in there on these drives. Good luck. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted December 10, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2023 Ok... yes... with a serial connection, you can have the HDDs give up their password without affecting the data on the drive. After unlocking the drive, I mount the E partition and let Pinecone scan for XBL content (Map updates, game updates, roster updates, etc.) This allows us to archive that data. Essentially DLC for OG Xbox. 28 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said: ... I am so confused, Cat. Why are you using these stock drives to catalogue XBL data? Could you maybe explain a little bit more what it is you are trying to do and how you are trying to do it? Also, the serial method for removing the HDD key? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted December 10, 2023 Report Share Posted December 10, 2023 25 minutes ago, Dtomcat18 said: Ok... yes... with a serial connection, you can have the HDDs give up their password without affecting the data on the drive. After unlocking the drive, I mount the E partition and let Pinecone scan for XBL content (Map updates, game updates, roster updates, etc.) This allows us to archive that data. Essentially DLC for OG Xbox. Oh okay! You bought a bunch of stock drives to see what was on them! I'm a bit thick. lol. Right on, buddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted December 10, 2023 Report Share Posted December 10, 2023 8 hours ago, Dtomcat18 said: not firmware locked... it's locked from Xbox. it's the xbox lock I have to remove via serial... because who knows what HDD key is LOL no eeprom backups so i'm having to trick the drive into giving me the password to unlock it For Seagate and Western Digital stock hard drives, you can use the manufacturer's MASTER password if the Xbox they were installed in was not modded. Xbox stock Western Digital HDD MASTER unlock password: WDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWD Xbox stock Seagate HDD MASTER unlock password: Seagate followed by 25 space characters FATXplorer 3.0 beta knows these MASTER passwords and other MASTER passwords used by modding scene apps to unlock them: TEAMASSEMBLY and XBOXSCENE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted December 10, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2023 I’m using FatXplorer beta 3 and it’s stating that it can’t use the master Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted December 10, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2023 Perhaps the usb to IDE adapter I’m using Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted December 10, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2023 13 hours ago, KaosEngineer said: For Seagate and Western Digital stock hard drives, you can use the manufacturer's MASTER password if the Xbox they were installed in was not modded. Xbox stock Western Digital HDD MASTER unlock password: WDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWD Xbox stock Seagate HDD MASTER unlock password: Seagate followed by 25 space characters FATXplorer 3.0 beta knows these MASTER passwords and other MASTER passwords used by modding scene apps to unlock them: TEAMASSEMBLY and XBOXSCENE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostyMaGee Posted December 10, 2023 Report Share Posted December 10, 2023 (edited) 24 minutes ago, Dtomcat18 said: That sucks. What about using the command line smartctl.exe that comes with xboxhdm 2.3 beta 3 or 4 to unlock and then open in fatxplorer? Edited December 10, 2023 by FrostyMaGee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted December 10, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2023 1 hour ago, FrostyMaGee said: That sucks. What about using the command line smartctl.exe that comes with xboxhdm 2.3 beta 3 or 4 to unlock and then open in fatxplorer? I don’t know…. Haven’t tried as wasn’t needed. Copying buffers around and reading them via serial connection to drives results in password being revealed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostyMaGee Posted December 10, 2023 Report Share Posted December 10, 2023 6 minutes ago, Dtomcat18 said: I don’t know…. Haven’t tried as wasn’t needed. Copying buffers around and reading them via serial connection to drives results in password being revealed Oh ok. Cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted December 10, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2023 I unlocked what I could. The packages of drives took a lot of damage in route to me. So final tally... 14 damaged drives (2 I fixed by swapping the HDD's main board for a good one) Approx 15 ish drives that worked did contain XBL DLC, but all DLC is already cataloged and known rest... nothing End results... lots of work for no reason LOL was fun to do though... like scratching off lottery tickets... hopeful!... but in the end let down 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted December 11, 2023 Report Share Posted December 11, 2023 1 hour ago, Dtomcat18 said: I unlocked what I could. The packages of drives took a lot of damage in route to me. So final tally... 14 damaged drives (2 I fixed by swapping the HDD's main board for a good one) Approx 15 ish drives that worked did contain XBL DLC, but all DLC is already cataloged and known rest... nothing End results... lots of work for no reason LOL was fun to do though... like scratching off lottery tickets... hopeful!... but in the end let down I was worried that would turn out to be the case. Thank you for going for it, Cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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