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hello, folks!
i have 60Gb hdd which previously was inside my xbox360 and now it is inside external storage usb case and i am trying to format it in any fs which i can use in everyday life.
but nothing happens!
when i attach hdd to a pc, fdisk tells me that it has no partition table, so i create a new one, it goes well, than i try to crate new partition in ext2,3,4 ntfs, jfs, whatever.... and it goes well too, but when everything is done and i am trying fdisk -l to see if everythin ok, i see an empty /dev/sdc with no partiotions and the partition table itself again!
i red somewhere that xbox locks its hdd whe shuts down... but i have no posibility to unlock it now... is there any method to format this hdd? brake the lock or whatever....
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You didn't mention what kind of HDD it is ?
It would be helpful if you can give more details.
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Silly question. You did use the 'W' command inside fdisk to actually commit the table from the workspace in memory back to the drive, right?
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a good gui tool for this is gparted live.
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You didn't mention what kind of HDD it is ?
It would be helpful if you can give more details.
well it is sata 60 GB 2,5 inch hdd...by fujitsu.
made in thailand))
what should i say more?
fdisk -l shows this:
Disk /dev/sdc: 60.0 GB, 60011641856 bytes, 117210238 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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Silly question. You did use the 'W' command inside fdisk to actually commit the table from the workspace in memory back to the drive, right?
yes, i do)) silly by logicaly right question.))
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a good gui tool for this is gparted live.
yeah i tried gparted. got same result, only in gui.
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Regarding the locking:
xbox / xbox 360 hard drives are locked with a key stored in the xbox's EEPROM. If you still have the xbox and it's modded, you can use homebrew applications like ConfigMagic to unlock the harddrive fairly simply.
The method to do so without the xbox is more involved. Since I'm not sure on this forum's policy, I wont like to guides describing that. They do exist, however
Note that these activities may result in an xbox live ban.
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Regarding the locking:
xbox / xbox 360 hard drives are locked with a key stored in the xbox's EEPROM. If you still have the xbox and it's modded, you can use homebrew applications like ConfigMagic to unlock the harddrive fairly simply.The method to do so without the xbox is more involved. Since I'm not sure on this forum's policy, I wont like to guides describing that. They do exist, however
Note that these activities may result in an xbox live ban.
hmmm, man i would apreciate if you would help me with this "methods". i send you PM, but did not recieve any answer..
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