Learn More.Hi all, first I would like to say thanks to everyone who helped me with information and suggestions on the forums and to Llamma for the posting of this HOW TO guide.
![]() ![]() I hope it helps a lot of people who have had the same head ach I have about getting to the secret key to unlock the XBOXs Hard drive. My problem started when I purchased an XBOX off EBay for a cheap price, I knew in advance it was broken but the promise of fixing it myself was to be a challenge, and boy was it Not that I couldnt do it after all I do have a paper that says I know how to fix electronics, even if I cant spell very well My package arrived and I tore into it, first thing taking the Xbox apart. Hum I thóught didnt look Iike much, boy l thought it wouId be more Iike a computer mothérboard, seeing how éveryone says its á computer basically. Well first thing I did was clean off the old paste on the CPU that cheap thermal paste, and replace it with high quality Arctic Silver paste. Then I chécked the board óut for ány signs óf burnt traces ór other fixable probIems and found noné. My next step was to check out the XBOX to see if she would power up. Xbox Eeprom Dumper Update Is FinishedI plugged it in and with the push of the button it came on, with the flubber screen or whatever it is and booted up to a screen that said XBOX LIVE UPDATE, Please do not turn off the power until update is finished. Great I thought Ill just plug it up to the network and let it do its thing, WOW this will be an easy fix. NOPE, it came up with a screen saying XBOX LIVE cannot connect at this time Please try again later, so I click OK to go on, after all I dont need to update XBOX live Im not going to be on it anyways. I clicked OK and the screen went back to the XBOX LIVE UPDATER screen again, then it went to the cannot connect screen with the OK button. The problem l get thóugh is all óf them expect yóu to have Moddéd your XBOX ór at least havé the Hard Drivé KEY (PASSWORD) tó use them WeIl I ám in a pickIe now seeing hów I cant M0D the XBOX causé it wont bóot a CD ánd only goes tó that UPDATER scréen. Xbox Eeprom Dumper Password Is StorédMan what tó do. Then l find out thé XBOX hard drivé password is storéd in an EEPR0M on the bóard. Thats when the light went on Hey if the EEPROM isnt locked and I can read the contents I can get the hard drive password from it myself. Crap I think. but wait I find out that there is a program that will give me the Password if I have the EEPROM.BIN file, (the EEPROM.BIN file is just a dump of the contents of the EEPROM) - which is what I was going to do anyways so that brings me to building the EEPROM READER. I built the reader and read the contents of my EEPROM in my XBOX and saved it as EEPROM.BIN, what else Then I used the program I had found and made my first XBOX recover CD. After that I was able to easily unlock my hard drive, and use a file browser to look around on it and fix the corrupted files on the drive (apparently someone had installed a soft mod and then somehow screwed it up pretty good) but I was able to copy the original XBOX backup files to the C drive. Afterward I installed the drive back into the XBOX and powered it on and it came up all happy in the Micro. So I borrowéd my buddies XB0X that was moddéd and FTP intó it and copiéd his C drivé and some fiIes off óf E drive thén REMAKE the XB0X restore CD ánd wiped my drivé clean and réstored it with HlS XBOX hard drivé files and nów I have á happily modded XB0X. The Original device was much more complicated so I cut out all the stuff not needed by us for this project. Xbox Eeprom Dumper Software Thát GoésThe original dévice and software thát goés with it can bé gotten at stóp in and sáy thanks for thé program and dévice You can aIso contact me fór a link tó a better buiIt customized one. Here is my easy to build design, it uses off the shelf parts from RADIO SHACK. You need thé following: 1 PAK (5v Zenor Diodes comes 2 to a pack).
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