salvaging xbox hard drives

[salvage junkie]

Hi all, I recieved a couple of hard drives from a buddy who upgraded his xbox drives, he said thet I would have to do something to the drives so I could use them in a pc. Google is giving me a headache trying to find this out. Any advice or even where to look?
thanks

 

[salvage junkie]

As an afterthought i should tell you that I don't have an xbox, just a pc.

 

[Matrix-D]

stumped me there...

 

[IBMan]

plug it in as a slave(if theres any jumpers) and run a windows XP cd and try formating it.

 

[ekÆsine]

you have to unlock your xbox hard disks on the xbox console before using it in your computer. these are some links about it. I saw a tutorial on how to to unlock an 8gb seagate xbox drive, forgot the link. search google for more info on xbxox hard drive unlocking

http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lock-hdd.php

http://www.xbox-linux.org/Hard_Disk_Hotswap_HOWTO