Peter, there's no need to prove how you did the steps with Strephon Alkhalikoi's method, coz like I said AFAIK it works, and I was offering you ALTERNATIVE methods. Read the post again:

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@PeterPerth
If you run unlock mapset.exe in the gmap folder it will unlock the entire map for MS and BC ,and also the image sent to the unit (or a drive if using patched versions) will be fully unlocked (i.e. not show as unauthenticated either): [Only registered and activated users can see links. ].

PS: Be nice to Stephon, afaik his method works ok and more importantly he's from Lizzie Borden country. Other methods also [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] to unlock the tdb file only if you want to try them.