Ipod hard drive unlocking

[bbreezeuk]

hey all,
ive got a hitachi 4gb microdrive out of a broken ipod and i was wondering is there anyway of unlocking the drive, when i put it in my card reader it detects that a card has benn inserted but wont let me into it

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I read the first half of your post and I thought you wanted something like this (pic becasue it's on a competitor's site)

However, after reading the second half I haven't a clue what you mean. What's a card reader have to do with the iPod hard drive?

 

[jhmaeng]

However, after reading the second half I haven't a clue what you mean. What's a card reader have to do with the iPod hard drive?

The 4GB Microdrive would have been out of an iPod Mini. Normally, the drive will be usable as a Compact Flash card, but ever since people discovered that you can either buy the Microdrive on their own, or extract the drive out of MP3 players for half the price, the manufacturers did some modifications to prevent this scavenging.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Ah, thanks for clearing that up for me.

 

[bbreezeuk]

so....... anyone have any ideas on how to get them to work

 

[PieMaster]

If they havent physically chanaged the drive, I guess if you could find a firmware upgrade for the normal version of the disk and can get it to flash the 'protected' one it might unlock it?

 

[Turbanation]

what if something goes wrong then BANG!!!!

 

[collisster]

Wack it with a hammer

 

[benjo plz.]

so....... anyone have any ideas on how to get them to work

Yeh, it's got its CF mode disabled (I dunno if you can unlock it) but you can still use it in ATA mode.

Edit. Apparently it's disabled through firmware, so you could flash it to work with CF.

 

[bbreezeuk]

so is it a 2.5" to 3.5" ata adapter i would need to get it working in my pc then format the card and then use it as a CF card

 

[benjo plz.]

so is it a 2.5" to 3.5" ata adapter i would need to get it working in my pc then format the card and then use it as a CF card

No. You'd probably need a cf to ide adapter.

 

[bbreezeuk]

ah ok, cheers