Has anyone come up with a way to unlock hard drives when the original EEPROM is inaccessible?
I feel like the protection shouldn't be too hard to break on today's PCs. Even though the use of such a tool would be niche, I bet this could help a few people out and maybe even get some lost DLC archived.
EDIT: Turns out they have. PrometheOS is a tool that can do this.
EDIT2: PrometheOS is a modchip OS, as I discovered. Should've clarified further that I was thinking of a PC-based tool, but it looks like FATXplorer has that covered for WD drives.
For Seagates, you have to get a USB to TTL adapter, hook it up to some pins on the drive, and run some commands in PuTTY to get the password, as outlined here: https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox:Drive_Locking#Service/Technician_mode_unlocking