Well, I finally got a 10ft USB extension cable, but it still does not work. I have the drive hooked up inside my desktop now. Windows XP lists the drive in Device Manager. Everything is the same as before. The data LED on the CP2102 turns green when I plug in the TXC, RXC, and GND pins to the ones on the hard drive. However, once I turn on the computer the data LED shuts off. HyperTerminal shows nothing when I connect to the CP2102. Also, u6dle gives me either "No drive attached. Aborted!" or "Error opening input file 10.bin" as before. One thing I noticed is the desktop detects the drive as 2.1 GB when the CP2102 is connected to it.

I do not think the U6 module based method is for this drive. Also, zu will most likely not work since the only 8-pin chip on the PCB is a "Mosfet and Schottky Diode" and not serial flash memory, If i'm not mistaken. I did a loopback test on this CP2102 and it checked out fine. So, I do not see a need to get another one, unless someone knows that TXC/RXC is not the same as TXD/RXD. Please, if anyone has further suggestions on how I can retrieve the password, let it be known here.

Have you tried tx to rx and rx to tx? Not tx to tx and rx to rx!!!
Also try connecting the tx/rx leads and then power on the drive.

zu- will work.

Appreciate the help, I had Tx to Tx and Rx to Rx. Now, the data LED blinked green until Windows loaded then it shuts off again.



Ok, but zu cannot reveal the password, right? I will only try zu if it's impractical to find the password.



Does it matter what the terminal log contains? It takes up to a minute for HyperTerminal to display anything since I hooked up TX to RX and RX to TX, is that typical?

Some of the output from HyperTerminal is as follows: OLS-0, OLS-0,Exit, OLS- 121b8f4, OLS-f84802. What does OLS mean? Why is it 0 or some six to seven digit hex code? I actually got u6dle to work, here is what it does

I've looked at the 10.bin file in HxD but its not so easy to find the password, please any hints on where it could be?

AFAICT, the Xbox assigns a unique password to each drive. Therefore, I suspect that the master and user passwords each consist of 32 bytes of binary data.

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Try reading sectors 20 and 21 on track 6B.



I expect that sector 21 will contain your password, if I understand the following guide correctly:

http://forum.dragonslayer.se/files/ST31 ... nglish.pdf

BTW, if you wish to retain the password, don't use the W20 command. W20 will overwrite sector 20.

WARNING: Terminal commands are CASE SENSITIVE.

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Agreed. AISI, the "hack" expects that the password "stuff" will be in sectors 20h/21h on track 6Bh. This may not be true for all firmware versions, so your method would be safer. That's why I asked the OP to avoid writing to the drive.

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Ok, but the 10.bin file is 512 bytes long and since . equals 00 then I see about 146 bytes of empty data. So, the ... is not used in the password and can be ignored, right? Which 64 of the 512 bytes has the master and user password?



I have no way of doing this as the parts for that serial interface are unavailable to me. The guide states to type R21,01, why did you put R20,02? What do those commands mean? Is it some kind of machine or assembly language? Also, hyperterminal does not let me type anything or pick up input from the keyboard. I'm using U6 module based unlocking that's posted on this forum.



I would, but the Xbox drive is not mine, and owner does not want anything posted about it.




It's good to know that it worked. Most of the other 366 bytes or so are special characters and symbols that can only be typed with a Num Pad and the Alt key codes, I believe.

Please tell me what to do with 10.BIN file so Victoria can unlock it? Can I use the DOS or Windows edition of Victoria?

Well, I finally convinced the owner of Xbox drive to let me post the file. But this forum will not have it, says "The extension bin is not allowed" Does anyone know a way around that? In the meantime, I'm going to try every 32 bytes that has any characters from 10.bin as the password. If that fails, then it means the password is not in 10.bin, right?

ZIP it.

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