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Tried to migrate the content to a second new hard-drive. I guess I'll reincarnate the bricked drive as a PC SATA or USB drive at some point.

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Did notice a dire warning on one eBay sellers page about need to follow migration steps carefully to avoid bricking the drive (as a result of the April XBOX update USB support), so looks like it's not very hard to go wrong now, with fatal consequences.

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There doesn't appear to be anyone (apart from MS) who knows how to encode a new security sector for a drive.ДЇinal solution - bought another legit XBOX drive on eBay (New 120Gb for ?38), will go through migration steps very carefully and see if I can spot where things went wrong the first time.

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I could install a security sector from another drive (with WinHex or whatever) but this still wouldn't work as the encoded drive serial in the copied sector wouldn't match the serial on my drive.

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