Topic: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit? (Read 84 times)

corkinator · « **on:** November 24, 2005, 05:12:00 PM »

Quick question. Forgive my lack of knowledge on this subject.

HD size support comes down to which bios you use right?

Is 137 gigs still the limit? Can certain bios' use bigger drives and if so, how and does it run smooth like a typical drive?

Just looking at replacing my 80gigger before I retire the old friend to the bench

Thought the bigger, the better B)

Cheers and thank you

effbee05 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 24, 2005, 07:27:00 PM »

I think you can use up to a 400gb but after 250gb you need to run a .67 bios to avoid data corruption.

vodkafish · « **Reply #2 on:** November 28, 2005, 11:57:00 AM »

Nice, I was just hunting for this answer. Does it have to be ATA100, 133 or any other specific speed?

deadparrot · « **Reply #3 on:** November 28, 2005, 02:41:00 PM »

So long as it is 8gb or larger and PATA/ATA it will work.

flashfreak · « **Reply #4 on:** December 01, 2005, 03:57:00 AM »

.06 bioses use one big F drive for everything, .67 make F up to 137, then G for the rest. I dunno what the numbers mean but thats how it goes.

I got my bro a 200gig and tried the .67 for a 137gig F and the remaining 65 or whatever for G, but i couldn't get a G: going, i was using unleashx but thats supposed to support it. I ended up using .06 and just having a 183gig F:.

But yeah, pretty much all new bioses support however big u want

lobes17 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 02, 2005, 06:20:00 AM »

i guess that u dont realize that formatted 200gb hdd are actually 186gb...so ur bro is only missing 3gb

torbjorn · « **Reply #6 on:** December 02, 2005, 07:06:00 PM »

u also have to enable G:drive.. in system settings on evox or avalaunch and so on..

i have 4983.67 and an 320 gb disc.

i had the 4981.06 bios but had to change it cuz of corruption..

and i found it out after filling 320 gb into it.. D"OH!

so use .67 its better-

the 6 and 7 stands for f and g part.

ShadowElitePro · « **Reply #7 on:** December 02, 2005, 07:08:00 PM »

No size at all. All u got to do is switch your bios.

theperfekt001 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 02, 2005, 11:17:00 PM »

new bioses support up to 2 terabyte hdds.

pokeroo · « **Reply #9 on:** December 07, 2005, 05:43:00 AM »

QUOTE(flashfreak @ Dec 1 2005, 05:28 AM)

.06 bioses use one big F drive for everything, .67 make F up to 137, then G for the rest. I dunno what the numbers mean but thats how it goes.

I got my bro a 200gig and tried the .67 for a 137gig F and the remaining 65 or whatever for G, but i couldn't get a G: going, i was using unleashx but thats supposed to support it. I ended up using .06 and just having a 183gig F:.

But yeah, pretty much all new bioses support however big u want

I got a 200GB drive as well and it report around 186GB. This is right because manufacturers use 1000 instead of 1024. Remember that 1Kb = 1024 bytes, 1MB = 1024Kb and 1GB = 1024MB - everything is base 2 not 10. If you do the math it comes out to 186GB; some of which will be used for C,E,X,Y,Z and a little bit for the partition table. I ended up with 174GB on F. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

nj12nets · « **Reply #10 on:** December 19, 2005, 08:02:00 PM »

5035 would work for a 400gb without corruption rite?

ChillenPyro · « **Reply #11 on:** December 19, 2005, 09:22:00 PM »

Ok this might not be the right spot for the question but I'm desperte. I put a X-Bit chip and an 80 gb in my xbox over a year ago. I decided to upgrade to a 250. I can only get the 137gb. I've been reading everything I can and looking everywhere to fix this. i know I need a bios with the LBA48 support but I don't know which ones have that or where I can get one. if anyone can help me out that'd be great.

Thanks

theperfekt001 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 20, 2005, 01:56:00 PM »

every new bios supports it. i recommend an x2 bios (5035 is newest) which is on xbins.

nj12nets · « **Reply #13 on:** December 20, 2005, 05:11:00 PM »

i threw in a 400gb to a customers xbox (biggest hdd i seen)

now the bios in there only supports f (5035) i used xbpartitioner to keep the sizes of f and g even and under 250gb so no corruption occurs.(i heard it can when there that big) now my problem is if i leave the bios as it is with it set to f takes all/no g partition and use it with both partitions will the data corrupt?

what should i do about this, t hank you

greenday54261 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 20, 2005, 08:39:00 PM »

If you go above about 250GB on partition 6 (F:) then there is a higher chance of data corruption. Which is why you should use a .67-type BIOS on anything above about 200GB, just to be sure.. A drive smaller than that would create an annoyingly small G partition (at least annoyingly small for me).

@nj12nets: Use X2ool to patch X2.5035 to use F and G. And don't use X2ool to do anything else with the BIOS; it's not fully compatible with 5035-only LBA48 stuff.

This post has been edited by greenday54261: Dec 21 2005, 04:40 AM

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