(iii) You will not attempt to defeat or circumvent any Xbox Console, Kinect Sensor or Authorized Accessory technical limitation, security, or anti-piracy system. They may not work or may stop working permanently after an Xbox Software update.Ģ. (i) You will not use Unauthorized Accessories or Unauthorized Games. (c) “ Authorized Accessory” means a Microsoft branded Xbox One, Xbox 360 or Xbox hardware accessory, and/or a Microsoft licensed, third-party branded, Xbox One, Xbox 360 or Xbox hardware accessory whose packaging bears the official “Licensed for Xbox” and/or the “Designed for Xbox” logo.Ģ. Microsoft could take it as an excuse in the future to block you, or not.ġ. Granted, replacing a hard drive with a larger model should not be a problem in my opinion, but. I guess that's the big deal for most users. The only option I can think of off the top of my head is to find a Windows based lock/unlock tool (running XP on this system) but my searches are coming up empty handed.Īny ideas? Again I do have both the password and the EEPROM file and the HDD is unlocked.I am in agreement with you that it's 'my hardware', but if you read their agreement (mostly aiming at XBox Live I assume) one could assume that modifying hardware might result in getting banned from XBox Live. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't run into the frozen drive issue on this PC but due to having a USB keyboard I can't even select #3 to find out. I have to sit and wait for it to timeout and it automatically picks option 1. Due to using a USB keyboard I can't select option 3 for the Linux HDD lock/unlock tool in Xboxhdm. I'm using a USB keyboard due to my PS2 connector being fried (long story, mistakenly stuck an IDE HDD enclosure power supply into it). Next tried it on my own desktop and ran into an obscure snag. Next attempted to run it on another (extremely ancient) Win95/DOS PC and couldn't even get the Linux distro to load properly, probably due to it being a 200mhz Pentium with 64mb of RAM. No amount of bios setting changes fixes that. On the PC we were using we get an error within Xboxhdm that the drive is frozen and is unable to be locked. All that's left to do is lock it back but here is where we ran into problems. Used that password with Xboxhdm 1.9 to unlock the drive and put a fresh file install on. Managed to find the EEPROM info from the backup on the HDD (he didn't have it backed up to a PC) by hotswapping it into my chipped Xbox. I'm in the process of helping a friend repair an Xbox that was softmodded and now has an error code 16 (clock reset loop).

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