Topic: All My Games And Emulators Are Gone (Read 168 times)

BossOfTheGame · « **on:** January 30, 2008, 08:42:00 PM »

Ok, I have some troubles. It seems that all my games and emulators are not in the F:\Games folder anymore. However, it still shows hard drive usage as if I had them all loaded still. My assumption is that they are still in memory somewhere, but I lost all pointers to them. The things I did circa the time this happened was delete the contents of the E:\cache folder, but not the folder itself, and I loaded about 8 extra gigs of videos and I rearanged my music folder (deleted some, and added some) into my F:\videos folder and F:\Music folder. It is a 250GB harddrive and I now have 12GB left, and it is definatly not taken up by my movies and music alone. I think my games are still in there somewhere. Is there anyway I can fix this or has this been scene before?

Also another thing I just thought of was my XboxMediaCenter Dashboard's skin changed from the 360 skin to the default without me telling it to. This was before my cache was cleared. I cleared it because I thought it might help that problem.

ScrewinGates · « **Reply #1 on:** January 31, 2008, 11:21:00 AM »

fatx file limitations maybe?try re-pointing all your sources and see where it gets you

BossOfTheGame · « **Reply #2 on:** January 31, 2008, 01:13:00 PM »

how would I go about doing that?

ScrewinGates · « **Reply #3 on:** January 31, 2008, 03:04:00 PM »

add source with white button and direct it to the folder with your games,emus,etc.

BossOfTheGame · « **Reply #4 on:** January 31, 2008, 03:10:00 PM »

I don't see a option to add source. Your talking about in the file explorer under UnleashX?

ScrewinGates · « **Reply #5 on:** January 31, 2008, 05:56:00 PM »

no i thought u said xbmc as dash

Bomb Bloke · « **Reply #6 on:** February 04, 2008, 03:53:00 AM »

Are you sure it's a 250gb drive?

Yeah, I know it's kinda hard to confuse - But there's a common issue where if you try to load more then 256gb onto a partition without first formatting it in a certain way, data starts getting deleted (often in great amounts). Your free space display won't go up; the data just goes AWOL.

BossOfTheGame · « **Reply #7 on:** February 05, 2008, 12:19:00 AM »

I'm pretty sure its 250, I had a 500, but it crashed.

EDIT: I did do this some time ago. I could have it confused and the 250 broke and I have a 500. If that is true what would happen if I deleted the stuff that made me go over 256? I can go to XBMC too I thought you were talking about unleash

ANOTHER EDIT: I decided to try and delete the cache one more time and it said it couldn't execute the Delete command. If that helps diagnosis.

Bomb Bloke · « **Reply #8 on:** February 05, 2008, 01:13:00 AM »

I believe most dashboards have system pages that tell you how large the installed HDD is (amongst other things), though you you could always take the lid off and take a look for yourself.

I'm afraid deleting stuff won't help if I'm right - The issue is due to the amount of clusters the file system can handle. If it attempts to write to one outside it's limit, it instead starts writing at the start of the drive (destroying parts of the file table as it goes). There's no known way to reverse this.

In the meantime, try not to do anything that would cause the system to write more data to disk. That'll only make matters worse; really you want to backup everything you can as soon as possible whatever the problem is.

BossOfTheGame · « **Reply #9 on:** February 13, 2008, 04:46:00 PM »

The odd thing is that I can find my videos and music. Would that still be able to happened if my HD was locked?

Bomb Bloke · « **Reply #10 on:** February 13, 2008, 07:28:00 PM »

No, Candie's comment doesn't apply to you.

You need to work out how large your drive is. If it's over the 256gb mark, then you need to reformat the suspect partition with XBPartitioner (making sure it uses 32kb clusters).

If it's under the 256gb mark (which'd surprise me given the nature of the problem), then I'd advise removing the drive from the X-Box entirely, have a PC wipe the entire thing, and then do a full surface scan over it before re-installing it back into your console.

BossOfTheGame · « **Reply #11 on:** February 21, 2008, 12:45:00 PM »

In XBMC it says I have 352MB left in my c drive, which is odd because my F drive is the one that should have most of the space. I'm beginning to suspect that my drive is indeed more than 250. I don't understand how this all works. Is the C drive everything combined?

BossOfTheGame · « **Reply #12 on:** February 21, 2008, 05:46:00 PM »

Never mind my last post. I was really tiered and didn't realize that it was megabytes not gigabytes. Anyway, I opened my Hard drive and I found out it was a 300GB drive. Can I repartition it so I can have my space back without actually deleting the OS. I really don't know how to mod an xbox, I had someone do it for me. I'm fairly compitent, but I'd rather just wipe the drives and start putting new things on it.

Bomb Bloke · « **Reply #13 on:** February 24, 2008, 02:44:00 AM »

Only one partition needs to be formatted here (F:), and most consoles don't boot from there... So the process shouldn't involve touching your dashboard.

If you're softmodded, to be on the safe side you should backup your EEPROM (if you haven't already done so). Install ConfigMagic to E: and have that extract it to the root of that partition. You then need to FTP it across to your PC.

Once you've got the remains of F: backed up, install XBPartitioner to E: and use that to reformat the faulty partition. Make sure 32kb clusters are selected when you tell it to do the format (the Y button toggles, if memory serves).

When that's done you should be good to go from there.

BossOfTheGame · « **Reply #14 on:** March 06, 2008, 06:23:00 PM »

I can't find a download to XBPartitioner anywhere. Where do you get it?

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