Check your jumpers. An incorrect jumper setting will limit the drive to 8 GB. If thats not it and the drive is unlocked, its a drive problem...
aLfer
thanx got past that but the 4o gig drive formats out to only 8 gig any suggestions.
Check your jumpers. An incorrect jumper setting will limit the drive to 8 GB. If thats not it and the drive is unlocked, its a drive problem...
aLfer
I've tried both mhd3 proggy's, in both primary, and secondary IDE's, it looks like it's working, but after 16 hours I'm still getting " . "'s every 10 seconds, but I never hear writing noises on the drive. I hear it spinning, but no "gronking". I'm trying to unlock a Seagate 40 gig from a UTV unit. I'm using XP home, and tried drive as a slave, and master. My puter sees it in "Device Manager", but not in "My Computer", or "Disk Manager" Anybody got any suggestions ?? Thanks
boot from a floppy disk (with mhd program on it)
with only the UTV drive plugged in on the primary IDE port as master
run the original mhd program (let it set over nite)
it will be unlocked in the morning
"Don't ask me I dont know anything except what I read"
Put the Hard Drive in a Zip Lock Storage (Anti-Static) then put in a Freezer for two hours, then put in your system right away and Voila!
If all else fails this is what I plan to do. I just was burnt on Ebay and brought a locked drive.
I have a hd maxtor 80gb locked with user password. I have used your procedure on my hd bat i haven't anything to do.Originally Posted by wildfrog
Can you help me?
Tank's.
Madmaul
follow the instructions in post 34
let us know what happens
"Don't ask me I dont know anything except what I read"
I thank you so much for whoever posted this v1.1 version of the mhd3.exe program. I had hooked up a 120GB IBM Deskstar that I was trying to blank out in a PC and I kept getting a "timeout error" whenever I ran the v1.0 version. I tried and tried and with no success. When I kept reading on in this forum I found out I wasn't the only person with an IBM Deskstar HDD that was having problems. When I overwrote the old mhd3.exe with the new mhd3.exe v1.1 onto the boot floppy and put it in the PC and ran it the hard drive it starting removing the security just had it done on my original 40GB UTV drive. May the person or people who wrote this program be blessed!!!
Sorry but when i try to use this program hi give me the message like "Unknown error. if drive is losked try again" i tried the new version1.1 of mhd3 and its still the same. i have the Dell Laptop whith Hitachi Travelstar 40Gb whith security level "maximum". please if you have any idea to fix this problem e-mail me at stefanteofanovic@hotmail.com or post a reply.Originally Posted by aLfer
thanks
Last edited by Ovich; 02-26-2006 at 06:30 PM.
I have this problem as well, any way to fix it?Originally Posted by Ovich
I have the same problem too I hope someone can help usOriginally Posted by krackle
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Im no pro at this, but it seams like western digital hard drives it wont work with, when it is in "security lvl of Maximum". I as like every one else with this brand of hard drive, or xbox hard drive get the same results:
Unknown error, if drive is locked try agian
This is a xbox hard drive 8gb (model: WD80EB)
If any onw knows a way to unlock these hard drives (i dont care about the info left on the drive) please post some thing. Also for those wiht seagate hard drives from a xbox check out llamma.com, they have some program that can unlock them ones, but not WD drives. Time for me to move on in research, have fun unlocking every one
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This software was unable to unlock hitachi/IBM Hard drives from a thinkpad T43
i have ibm thinkpad t42 with hitachi Hdd locked , any way to unlock ?
Br Atef
i need to know too if it can unlock travelstar hitachi serie