That is incorrect Mike, EFILive will happily recover an ECM as long as the file you are using is not S/N or VIN locked, any time people have run in to this issue of not being able to recover an ECM that has been the reason, in the trouble shooting for the error that comes up when this happens it even says to use a file that is not VIN or S/N locked (because they cannot be obtained from the ECM when it is in bootmode).