If a device is locked, it will refuse all access until it is unlocked. The security feature of the hard drive can be enabled and disabled by sending special ATA commands to the drive.
The password is generated in two distinct phases: The XBox uses a User Password with the Maximum security mode (see below). The drive is unlocked by the Kernel at boot. The hard drives in the Xbox are standard IDE drives locked with a key (referred to as the HDKey). Add info on how extended partitions are added.Side note: CD/DVD Drive 'D:' '\Device\CdRom0' and usually: added Drive 'F:' '\Device\Harddisk0\Partition6' added Drive 'G:' '\Device\Harddisk0\Partition7' The file system used on the Xbox is FATX, a variant of FAT16/32 developed by Microsoft specifically for the Xbox. Unlike a PC, which typically contains either a Master Boot Record or GUID Partition Table to specify the partition information, the Xbox kernel uses a fixed partition layout.
The Xbox hard disk contains multiple partitions.
