Question about a HD

[SparkyJJO]

I have this 8GB hard drive that I pulled from a broken xbox (bad motherboard). I was going to use it in a folding computer so I stuck it in the system and the bios recognized it instantly. However every time I try and partition the thing it tells me it ran into an error. Now I know it didn't have a normal partition on it, but is there some way I can get it working in a PC? I thought I had heard of people doing that before.

Thanks!

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO
I have this 8GB hard drive that I pulled from a broken xbox (bad motherboard). I was going to use it in a folding computer so I stuck it in the system and the bios recognized it instantly. However every time I try and partition the thing it tells me it ran into an error. Now I know it didn't have a normal partition on it, but is there some way I can get it working in a PC? I thought I had heard of people doing that before.

Thanks!

try a low level format? I had to do that with a drive I ripped from a RAID stripe and had an unreadable partition map/format.

 

[SparkyJJO]

I have maxblast writing 0's across the drive right now, would that work? Or can you point me to a low level format utility I can use if that won't work?

I've done quite a bit with drives and such but never something like this before... I feel like such a n00b

 

[SparkyJJO]

I did it finally!

The drive was locked, hence the reason why nothing could partition or format the drive. Went googling for awhile and came across these directions. I used at the bottom of the page and it worked! Totally unlocked the drive, and now it is partitioned and ready to be formatted. It will only work on that particular WD drive model I think.

This is the program referred to in the directions

Only downside was I had to dig up a floppy drive and a working win98 boot disk

 

[DahRock222]

where do i find atapwd.exe

 

[aerofan897]

Xbox hard drives are security locked as you discovered. This is a privacy mechanism which was intended to prevent you from looking at the contents of the original disk.

It can be easier (if the original xbox is still working, of course) to use a program called ConfigMagic by Team Assembly, and you can unlock the hard drive with your xbox. To do this you would need a modchip or a softmod, however.

 

[DahRock222]

The problem is that I don't have a Xbox I got a 8 gb hd by trading an old comp an now I'm trying to use it in a P2 400mhz gateway an not haveing fun any help will be gratefull

 

[aerofan897]

Did you read post #4? He even posted a link to the file you were looking for.

 

[DahRock222]

Yes I did thats were I saw atapwd.exe but did not see were to download it

 

[aerofan897]

Two links were posted above. The second one was a link to atapwd.exe, which is contained in a zip folder. Here it is again, since you can't seem to find it.

 

[DahRock222]

Thank you and merry xmas