Topic: Help: F Drive Not Accessible All Of A Sudden (Read 120 times)

woofis · « **on:** July 20, 2004, 03:20:00 PM »

well if u can form the hdd try loading dvd2 xbox and look in ur f drive and see if its still there, if u see all the stuff is still there than thats good and we can get this thing back to normal. if u cant load dv2xbox make an iso and burn it to a cd and load it that way.... tell me if u can see the contets of the f drive in there

woofis · « **Reply #1 on:** July 20, 2004, 05:31:00 PM »

so ur saying after looking into the f drive in dvd2xbox there still was nothing in the f drive i.e all ur games/apps or w/e u had in there?

xboxhaxorz · « **Reply #2 on:** July 20, 2004, 05:37:00 PM »

either you dont have an lba48 compatible bios, or your hdd is going dead

woofis · « **Reply #3 on:** July 20, 2004, 05:45:00 PM »

not true...... if the contents are shown in dvd2xbox that he still has an f drive and all the game/apps are there than i know how to fix it. if not he should try to reformat his hdd if that fails then ur hdd is prob screwed

elec_tech · « **Reply #4 on:** July 20, 2004, 07:43:00 PM »

I had the exact same problem happen last night. I was running an original game (project gothem 2) and opened the drive (while the game was running) and tried resetting back to the dash. The system froze and now every time I try and boot it's extremely slow, and, when I ftp in, it shows my f drive as empty. It takes at least a half an hour before I can even get to a secondary menu but I'll try and get dvd to xbox to run, if it recognizes the f drive then what?

I just tried editing my evox.ini to turn off the f drive, and now mine boots up like normal again also.

elec_tech · « **Reply #5 on:** July 21, 2004, 07:29:00 AM »

If you can see your F drive through dvd2xbox, how do you restore it? After disabling my f drive in my .ini file I can still see it and all the subfolders through dvd2xbox (it immediately starts running slow) but I can't figure out how to get out of it. (sorry to butt in on your thread Luvaa but I didn't want to start a new thread for the same topic

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woofis · « **Reply #6 on:** July 21, 2004, 08:36:00 AM »

well the only thingi can think of is putting a new evox.ini file and another file (forgot wut its called.. haha) in ur g folder, but idk if thatll work since u cant even see the contents in the drive, for elec teck im not sure if i undertsand ur prob, is it that ur xbox also cant read the f drive?
what i need to know is if in dvd2xbox ur f drive is enabled and u if u can see everything in ur f drive or not..... if not i really have no clue, try reformatting if u can see the conetents then i can help

elec_tech · « **Reply #7 on:** July 21, 2004, 02:53:00 PM »

thedustycelt · « **Reply #8 on:** July 21, 2004, 03:06:00 PM »

befor reformating it, you could unlock it and stick it in a pc. then use one of the pc xbox harddrive explorers to look at the drive....

elec_tech · « **Reply #9 on:** July 21, 2004, 07:55:00 PM »

thedustycelt · « **Reply #10 on:** July 22, 2004, 12:30:00 AM »

It might, when you look at it in the pc with a file explorer, you are seeing the actual data...

If your evox install became corupted somehow, evox might not think that there is a drive, when there actualy is...

It might not help, but it shure won't hurt.

You might also try reinstalling evox, not with an auto installer, but manualy...

cheers

Xbox_Luvaa · « **Reply #11 on:** July 22, 2004, 06:37:00 AM »

Hi 2 all,

well, I now reinstalled my EvoX, but it didn´t do anything...sorrily..

About the "put the HD into your PC" idea: I like it, and I didn´t even know that there are such tools as a "browse your XBOX HD in your PC". My problem is though that my PC has this ugly BIOS limitation and actually has only half of ther processor speed than the XBOX has

I won´t flash my PC bios, since teh comp is about to get thrown out anyway...So: Can I overcome this BIOS limit problem in order to take a look at my XBOX HDD? (e.g. let it boot, then switch IDE´s??)

Next thing: Since I guess that I won´t get around reformatting my 120 GB Segate Barracuda, my problem is to find a tool to sort of LOW LEVEL FORMAT my drive.. does slyaer or X-DISK include this ddep formatting option? Or how would you guys go about reformatting it?

This question is sort of crucvial, as I am afraid that my HDD now has a physical error, so in 2 weeks the same thing probably happens again. ANy tools which deep format & tell me if there was a defect (and at the best "close" those sectors so this won´t happen again)? (Tools for the XBOX)

So many questions

Thanxs 2 all of you for trying hard to help me out here

Greetz XBOX_Luvaa

elec_tech · « **Reply #12 on:** July 22, 2004, 07:35:00 AM »

I just tried overwriting evox as well with no luck, but I will try popping my HD into my PC tonight when I get home to see if I have any luck there. Thanks for the suggestion dustycelt.

elec_tech · « **Reply #13 on:** July 22, 2004, 04:29:00 PM »

I thought I had a file manager for xbox drives running off a pc but I can't find any, can somebody give me some names for apps (and if the use the xdk)?

thedustycelt · « **Reply #14 on:** July 23, 2004, 10:41:00 AM »

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