Silver Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 Is there any way to restore a hdd after a config magic mess up? Was working on the EEprom of a soft mod hdd. Messed up rebooted now get error 5. Is this xbox unusable now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 On 6/1/2021 at 10:21 AM, Silver said: Is this xbox unusable now? Not if you have the eeprom.bin backup on your PC. Or, the hardware and software to read the contents of the configuration EEPROM's content on the Xbox's motherboard. Edit: Or, the easier fix. Install a modchip. Edit 2: Wait, forget what I previously said - the hard drive is unlocked! You can use FATXplorer to access the hard drive's content. Which brand and model of hard drive is it? What type of interface does it have IDE or SATA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Posted June 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 No never backed it up.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS_Dave Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 5 minutes ago, Silver said: No never backed it up.. Murphy's law if you have a backup of your Data you will never need it but the day you don't have a backup the system will fail Time to hard mod the Xbox. Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Posted June 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 Yup.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMajst3r Posted June 2, 2021 Report Share Posted June 2, 2021 Error 05 means your harddrive is unlocked. If you don't have a backup, the only solutions are: read eeprom (Google Xbox eeprom reader) and lock harddrive on PC/another console install a modchip to bypass the error Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDShadow Posted June 2, 2021 Report Share Posted June 2, 2021 Rocky5's ConfigMagic v1.6.1 mostly GUI update might have prevented this as it is made difficult to exit ConfigMagic with an unlocked HDD and warns you not to do it if you're using a softmod. Use of his v1.6.1 update is recommended for this reason. This case is also another good example of why once you've softmodded your original 8GB - 10GB you should immediately install another, bigger HDD and keep that original one, locked of course, as backup for just such situations. I've never had cause to use it in such circumstances but if ConfigMagic has been used a master password "TEAMASSEMBLY" may have been enabled. Not sure if it can be used to relock a Xbox HDD though; others here may know about that. Also ConfigMagic may have written the eeprom.bin to the root of the E:\ at some point during the process. As the HDD is unlocked you could use a USB housing and FATXplorer to check whether that has happened. If it was softmodded using SID/AID the eeprom might (it should be standard user practice) have been written to E:\Backup or the softmod's own E:\UDATA folder. With the eeprom and XBHDM you should be able to relock the HDD. As I've been more into chipping and TSOPs recently I've not done it for some time but with softmods, as I was strongly advised to do as a Xbox modding noob by people like Heimdall (HeXEn) on the Xbox-Scene forum, I routinely backed up the eeprom (EvoX) as part of the pre-softmod process. But later I also unlocked and relocked all my softmod HDDs with ConfigMagic to enable that master password option, just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted June 3, 2021 Report Share Posted June 3, 2021 15 hours ago, HDShadow said: I've never had cause to use it in such circumstances but if ConfigMagic has been used a master password "TEAMASSEMBLY" may have been enabled. Not sure if it can be used to relock a Xbox HDD though; others here may know about that. The "TEAMASSEMBLY" password, MASTER password, can only be used to unlock the drive if you don't have the EEPROM backup file, eeprom.bin. The HDDKey is stored in it. This key value, hard drive model number and serial number are used to compute the USER locking password. However, since the drive is unlocked, you can read data from it on a PC with the correct port. Is it an IDE drive or a SATA drive with an IDE-to-SATA adapter? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted June 3, 2021 Report Share Posted June 3, 2021 On 6/1/2021 at 5:09 PM, Silver said: No never backed it up.. Which softmod did you install? Most softmods create a backup of the EEPROM's content and store it on the hard drive. You can use a few different applications to access the content on the hard drive since it is currently UNLOCKED: If it's a stock IDE hard drive, XboxHDM 1.9 if you have a PC with a native IDE interface XboxHDM23USB Beta 2 or Beta 3 - the Xbox hard drive connects to the PC with a USB-to-HDD interface adapter (IDE/SATA or a combo with both interfaces available) XboxHDM-2.3-Beta 4 - the hard drive can be connected to the native interface or with a USB-to-HDD interface adapter. FATXplorer 3.0 Beta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDShadow Posted June 3, 2021 Report Share Posted June 3, 2021 (edited) Quote Also ConfigMagic may have written the eeprom.bin to the root of the E:\ at some point during the process. As the HDD is unlocked you could use a USB housing and FATXplorer to check whether that has happened. If it was softmodded using SID/AID the eeprom might (it should be standard user practice) have been written to E:\Backup or the softmod's own E:\UDATA folder. With the eeprom and XBHDM you should be able to relock the HDD. Edited June 3, 2021 by HDShadow 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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