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[MM007]

I have a 160GB drive and when i first starting using it i was using the IND 5003.67. I recently realized that i should have used the IND 5003.06 since I only have an F drive and no G drive(the .06 shows more than 137GB on F drive). I put the ind 5003.06 on my system and it shows my extra hard drive space that i was missing.

The problem is that i saved most of my games/movies/apps to the F drive when i was using the .67 bios. when i launch from the .67 bios i can see all my saved games/apps/movies, but when i launch from the .06 bios i can't see any of my old games/movies/apps that were on the HDD. In fact, if i browse through the F drive on the Hdd it doesn't show my apps/movies/music folders, it only shows my games folder with one game in it...this is the one game that i backed up while using the .67 version of the bios. So, if i load from the .06 and save games, then i can only see the games that i saved from the .06 and not the games i saved from the .67.

What i am saying is that when i load from the .06 i can only see what i have saved to the HDD when i was in the .06. I know all my games and stuff are still on the HDD(that i saved from the .67), but i can't see them from the .06.

Is there a way that i can make the .06 version of the bios see all the games/apps/movies/music that i have saved to the harddrive when i was in the .67.

The reason that i want to do this is because when i am using the .06 i see my entire harddrive instead of only 137GB of it. But I have saved most of my games and apps ect. when using the .67. I need a way to get them over to where i can see them from the .06.

thanks

This post has been edited by MM007: Nov 29 2004, 01:49 AM

[heinrich]

I am quite sure that you have corrupted your hard drive.  You will need to pick a version and format.

[MM007]

i know when i first formatted my hdd that i used only an F drive. is this what you mean by pick a version or are you talking about picking a version of ind 5003?


what do u mean by corrupted?

i have a format partition and a copy partition in my xenium os 2.0.1. is this what i would need to do? will i lose everything that i have saved on my hdd? also it is working fine the way it is except that i can't see the entire hdd.

Also to reformat would this require me to remove everything from the hdd and put it all back on?


sorry if i ask a lot of questions but i'm new to this.

[heinrich]

by version i mean .06 or .67 of any bios.  If you wrote to the hard drive with both versions, it over wrote data.

I have no idea what formatting scheme the xenium OS uses when formatting.  You also do not *have* to use .06 to use all of your hard drive, you can use .67 and have a G drive.

You cannot switch between .06 and .67 w/o losing all of your data.  There is no "partition magic" for the xbox.

[MM007]

Note: when i setup my HDDi only made an F drive when i formatted it. When i use an F and G bios..G is zero in size and therefore i'm not getting all of my HDD space, unless i use a bios that says F takes rest of space.

i can swith back and forth between using the .06 and the .67 and see different games. like if i use the .06 i can see one game and no apps, and if i use the .67 i can see several games and apps. i can play the games as well(fromt the .67 and the .06).

i can even use other bioses to do this(such as x2 bios'). the ones that use F takes rest of the drive i can see and play the one game that i saved when using a bios' that says for F to takes up rest of the HDD. But when i use a bios that says F and G take up the drive (such as a .67 bios) and can see all the games that i saved when using that type of bios....but i can't see the one game i used when saving it from the other type of bios.

so when i load from an F takes up rest of drive bios...i can see and use anything that i saved from an F takes up rest of drive bios....but can't see anything that i saved from an F and G type bios...
When i use an F and G type bios i can see that type of stuff that i saved, but can't see what i saved from an F takes all type bios.

Are you saying that if i keep saving stuff in this manner that it will eventually overwrite each other?

By format can i just reformat the F drive or do i need to format the entire HDD?

I want to make everything right on my xbox...but i don't know if i want to reformat the HDD and have to put like 70GB worth of stuff back on there.

Please let me know what i should do.

This post has been edited by MM007: Nov 30 2004, 02:39 AM

[clintec]

MM007,

This is just a suggestion on what you can do to remedy the problem....
This will be a fairly long process... and require that you have another LARGE drive
in a PC... but it should get what you need....

Try FTPing all of the data you want to save back over to a PC... and then
use your Xenium to reformat your F drive using the .06 BIOS so that you can access
all of your new F drive in a single partition.

Once that's done... copy all of your data back over.

I hope that this helps...  Like I said... this will be a lengthy process...
but should get you the result that you want.

Without doing something like this... you definately run the risk of farking up the data on the drive.

Good Luck,
Clintec.

[MM007]

thats kinda what i was thinking that i should do...

so I would only need to format the F drive right?

[snipes420]

yes, all xboxes have the C, E, X, Y, Z partitions so every bios knows where they are and there wont be any overwriting that way. but the f and g partitions are 'extras' that the xbox doesnt usually have so will be different on different xboxes depending of the hard drives actual size.