Hi, I really hope that someone could help me because I searched many forums and I found people having the same problem as me, but no real solution. So to be short, it seems that my partition 4 (lettre E) has disappear. Not sure how. When I boot and I hotswap, Xplorer360 shows me partition 0-3 only. When I start the XBOX(no error code), the dashboard shows me that I have no hard drive storage (0 block available). I can't start a game because it tells me to contact support. I tried to rebuild the disk with XBOXHDM but it tells me that my drive is still locked, Because of that, options 1-5 are disabled. I hope I gave enough details so that someone is able to help me. I promise to publish a step-by-step procedure once I fix that problem. So thanks in advance for you help,
well, if it is locked then first unlock the harddrive. sounds logical? so boot hdm disc, unlock harddrive. then reboot hdm again, then rebuild (assuming you have a good working hdm disc, so one with an E partition!!)
first 3 partitions should be C: E: F: .. and 3 cache partitions xyz there may be a G but that depends... we don't have anything like enough to work with here.
Hi dennisv9, I will give a try to unlock it. But one thing I don't understand is that when I boot in windows and connect to the HD with Xplorer360, I can see the 3 other partitions. Can it be that only partition 4 stays locked? My understanding was that the locking mechanism was at the HD level, not at the partition level. Do you understand my confusion? If so, some explanation would be greatly appreciated. I'll come back to you once I tried this out. @scum101: I have a "stock" XBOX 1.0 with original HD. I think that you refer to XBOX360, am I right? Because I've seen all over the place that partition 4 is for letter E on a XBOX Thanks,
locking is at hd level, so that is where my confusion is in your post. either the hd is unlocked, so you should be able to access it with fatxplorer AND the xboxhdm disc! OR, the drive is locked, so it isn't accessible at all! rebuilding it with a proper e partition will solve your problem, but for that you need to unlock it. but if you don't care about the data that is on it, if you locked it lastly with xboxhd, there is the masterpassword that is set to xboxscene (i believe!). with that, you should be able to unlock it. if it is a western digital drive (wd80), you are able to erase it with a harddisk erase tool (atapwd.exe), the password is WDCWDCWDCetc. (so keep typing WDC at the password until the bar is full, then press enter and the harddrive is unlocked and erased!)
Hi, since I'm able to access it with Xplorer360, I'm pretty sure that my HD is unlocked already. But I found something interesting. When I start xboxhdm, I get lots of "task_in_intr" error. I think this may explain why my HD is not correctly recognized by xboxhdm. Sounds like my HD is corrupted?!?!? So if my understanding is correct, i need to reconstruct my HD with xboxhdm because it is somehow corrupted, but xboxhdm refuse to reconstruct it because it is corrupted. Yahoo! And it also looks like Xplorer360 don't bother of the fact that the HD is partially corrupted. It just don't mount the corrupted partition rather than not mounting the whole HD. Any idea anyone? Thanks a lot!
oke, have you a working backup of your eeprom? --if yes, format your harddrive when it is in an unlocked state. ----so, when it is unlocked under windows (it is if you can access it with fatxplorer or alike program). then go to your hard drive, and format it entirely (fat or ntfs, doesn't matter). it will check for bad sectors and stuff etc. after which you have a xbox unusable and unlocked pc formatted hard drive. --then if you power up the xboxhdm disc, it will recognize it as an unlocked harddrive (with no fatx partition at all). it will then give you the option to rebuild from scratch. do that, and lock it with your eeprom. then your done BUT, all is at your own risk. because even if the partitions are corrupted, xboxhdm should give you the option to rebuild the harddrive. it would just remap the fatx table after which the entire harddrive is blanked. then it will just copy the data of the hdm disc back. so i wonder what your problem is. if you have a spare small harddrive laying around, i would suggest to rebuild this hdd with the hdm disc and lock it with your eeprom. then see if your xbox boots up correctly.
