Topic: How To Send Isos To Xbox Hdd? (Read 81 times)

Shafted! · « **on:** February 02, 2003, 06:23:00 PM »

Hey all,

I've been using PX Game loader to run my backup games off my xbox HDD. This is what i usually do:

- extract iso to temp dir on my computers hdd
- ftp to my xbox
- create a folder "PxGame_" in the folder "HDDLoader"

It works well for me, but it's getting annoying having to extract the content of the ISO to a temp dir. Is there any alternative to doing this?

Thanks,
Shafted!

feflicker · « **Reply #1 on:** February 02, 2003, 07:51:00 PM »

Nope. The game has to be extracted.

If it weren't, once the game was started, how would it know were to find the files it requires to run?

SScorpio · « **Reply #2 on:** February 04, 2003, 08:11:00 AM »

I think he's wondering about a program that will take the iso and upload the files to the xbox.

This way you can bypass the extra step of extracting the files on the computer first.

zamboni · « **Reply #3 on:** February 04, 2003, 07:54:00 PM »

What a convenient time to ask

XBox Game Manager 1.5

New in 1.5:
- Now supports on-the-fly extraction of iso files from local drive to xbox

http://archon.cs.unm.edu/xgman/

Amything · « **Reply #4 on:** February 05, 2003, 12:34:00 AM »

Nice feature, good job!

Having trouble using it myself. It works well for E drive but on my 40 gig F drive full of games and the tens of thousands of files that come with them it doesn't seem to be able to handle it. Too many files I guess, both the program and xbox freeze. Perhaps if you add a button or an option so you can disable the game dir size view on xbox, perhaps make an additional button for each game so one could do it for one folder at a time?

Thanks for great program and considdering

zamboni · « **Reply #5 on:** February 05, 2003, 03:56:00 AM »

Hmm.. I've heard people saying updates are rather slow on big drives. Haven't heard of crashes though.

Anyway, I'll put out a release with some sort of remedy.

It will likely be a few weeks though.

This post has been edited by zamboni: Feb 5 2003, 12:03 PM

Shafted! · « **Reply #6 on:** February 05, 2003, 04:19:00 AM »

* Supports on-the-fly extraction of iso files from local drive to xbox * Supports multiple game copy / deletion in one command

Yes, that is what i'm talking about! I've yet to try it (already sent all my backups to my xbox), but this is great (and what i was talking about)!

thanks.

L!M!T · « **Reply #7 on:** February 05, 2003, 04:29:00 AM »

Hey... Nice feature!

Working on a similar application myself, as the other ISO applications lacked this very
feature at the time I was searching for it.

My project has some features XBGMan i missing though as I was trying to incorporate
some of the other PC/Xbox utilities into it.

Anyway, inventing the wheel all over again is pretty st00pid, so, I'll leave the decision
to the common users, i.e. you.

Is there any need for another xISO 'on-the-fly' extraction app?

If not, then I will put my project aside.

Regards,

L!M!T

jigab00 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 06, 2003, 08:25:00 AM »

XGman, nice app - however I've had some issues with it.

1) I've had trouble with at least one ISO (I've only used it to move 2 ISO's over so far) where it gave me an error message stating it couldnt copy the file over. Extracted with XISO and FTP = no problem. There was lots of space on the drive, and my temp file area as well.

2) After moving a ~3GB ISO across (second attempt), it would not refresh properly. It automatically updates, but the progress stuck in the middle and the new folder did not show. Hit update button, but nothing seemed to happen. Killed the prog and re-ran it, seemed to be fine.

3) Slooooow for updating typically. And it seems to move a large amount of data when updating (according to my bandwidth meter). I have a 110GB partition with ~20GB worth of stuff.

Other than that, it seems fine. Good job!

Jiggy

jigab00 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 06, 2003, 08:33:00 AM »

Oh and by the way, just a cosmetic thing - if you do an "About", it says version 1.25!

Jiggy

zamboni · « **Reply #10 on:** February 06, 2003, 07:53:00 AM »

Thanks for the report.

Okay (minus the iso) your issues are related to updates. The next release should fix that issue. I wish I had a large drive to test on myself.

Thanks for the about info

Back to the iso issue.. can you tell me what the error message is exactly? I think I know what the problem is..

Please email me at xbgman(at)hotmail.com with your response

dizturbd · « **Reply #11 on:** February 06, 2003, 06:40:00 PM »

Hey, I just got this program and tried to send 2 iso's to my xbox HD. When I opened boxplorer on the xbox it showed that the whole .iso file had transfered and didn't extract them. Is there something I did wrong? How do I extract 'on the fly'?

dizturbd · « **Reply #12 on:** February 06, 2003, 06:47:00 PM »

Do I have to use an extraction program(xISO 1.1) and then copy the files with this program (Xbox Game Manager 1.5) while the files are extracting from the extraction program? Because that's not technically on-the-fly, it's multi-tasking.

zamboni · « **Reply #13 on:** February 06, 2003, 06:57:00 PM »

Ah.. no.. that's not supposed to happen

Yes it is supposed to be on-the-fly.

Please email me at xbgman(at)hotmail.com with the full iso file names and any error messages you might get. Also try downloading 1.55 from http://archon.cs.unm.edu/xgman/ and see if that helps any.

socrates · « **Reply #14 on:** February 07, 2003, 04:29:00 AM »

I cant seem to get this program to open, i have downloaded it three times and when i try to run the program it say this "The XGMAN.EXE file is linked to a missing export KERNEL32.DLL:setfilePointerEx" so is that my comp or the program?

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