ArduinoProm VS PiPROM

If you have an Arduino or Pi, you can do that using the following tools: https://github.com/grimdoomer/PiPROM https://github.com/Ryzee119/ArduinoProm

Hmm 🤔 that’s stupid to start, you should never touch the hdd key or edit in the on the fly, just lock it with the key of the eeprom.. but if you lock it with config magic I believe there is a master key don’t remember what it was.. never needed it. You have a mod chip so you should be able to boot from any hdd that’s not locked. So maybe you could unlock the drive using a pc and the master key for the hdd.. hope you made a baxku of your eeprom.bin so you can correct your eeprom. You maybe need to flash the eeprom via piprom or Arduinoprom

Eeprom can read and write using i2c port. https://github.com/Ryzee119/ArduinoProm

Ryzee119's ArduinoProm

like the title says, I'm wondering if it's possible to install PiProm on a rpi pico. I saw on the wiki that you can use pi models 1, 1B+, 2B, 3B, Zero-W and Banana Pi and that ArduinoProm is a thing, but haven't been able to find anything about using a pi pico.

If you don't have a raspberry Pi you could also use ArduinoProm which uses an arduino instead (this is what I use because I do not own a raspberry Pi)

These days you don’t need a PC hooked up to a serial port EEPROM reader, you can just use an $1 Arduino (using Ryzee’s ArduinoProm) or even better, an ESP8266 (using dx4m’s amazing and aptly-named Xbox-EEPROM-Utility) board to read it.

its surprisingly happens randomly. usually after saving a new setting to the xbox. Its easy to fix if you have a Pro micro (arduino) or a rasberry Pi. ArduinoProm Or PiPROM will allow you to connect to the motherboards lpc pin header (i use dupont jumpers to do this) and reflash a backup or new eeprom.

If you have a Raspberry Pi available, you can use this tool to extract the HDD key from the motherboard's EEPROM and build a new HDD from scratch using a tool like XboxHDM

Nah, I removed that already, it's a Japanese xbox and I don't have a game I can use to softmod it, so I have to change the region to NTSC-M with a raspberry pi. Thankfully someone wrote a tool and put together a good tutorial: https://github.com/grimdoomer/PiPROM

Then i tried to read my EEPROM with a Raspberry Pi 3 following this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSe89adGfR0 and this guide: https://github.com/grimdoomer/PiPROM

GitHub repo

If you have an Arduino or Pi, you can do that using the following tools: https://github.com/grimdoomer/PiPROM https://github.com/Ryzee119/ArduinoProm

I'm more than happy to help you with whatever you need to get the data off those drives. If you do have a dead board with a working hard drive it would be easier to use an eeprom reader on the board like a PiProm or if you prefer to desolder the eeprom chip, you could read it in a programmer like a CH341A with a SOIC8 150mil EZsocket. The second method is what I usually end up doing because it's just less work for me.