Topic: Can Partitions Be Larger Than 123 Gb? (Read 106 times)

justtaint · « **on:** October 02, 2004, 09:58:00 PM »

Unless you're using a newer bios with the LBA48 hack you are limited to 137GB.

As for your question, you have 8GB taken up by the C:, E:, X:, Y: and Z: partitions, that leaves 152GB for your F: (not really, actually less than 152GB)

HD manufacturers are kinda tricky...your HD is 160,000,000,000 bytes, or 156,250,000 Kbytes or 152,587Mbytes or 149.01GB

Ikari Warrior · « **Reply #1 on:** October 02, 2004, 10:29:00 PM »

I'm using the M8 bios, I'm not sure if that has the hack. Should I redo the formatting then, would that put the remaining space on a G drive so I can use all of it?

justtaint · « **Reply #2 on:** October 02, 2004, 11:20:00 PM »

Its optional with the M8 bios.

bleugh · « **Reply #3 on:** October 03, 2004, 02:48:00 AM »

...don't go exceeding 250 gig on one partition tho, you'll likley run into corruption problems

Ikari Warrior · « **Reply #4 on:** October 03, 2004, 02:59:00 PM »

Can anyone help? I'd like to get this resolved before I start adding things so I don't have to do everything over again.
Thanks!

texasranger · « **Reply #5 on:** October 03, 2004, 03:32:00 PM »

xenium os2 beta didn't support drives larger than 137 gigs, i'm not sure if this has been fixed in 2.0.1 but i would just launch your m8 bios and boot from a slayers disc. it has options to format your drive right in the main menu.

Ikari Warrior · « **Reply #6 on:** October 03, 2004, 03:46:00 PM »

I've never used Slayers, I used the Drive Upgrade Wizard on the Xenium Ice OS and it formatted any copied everything over great. My question is if I reformat the drive and this time pick format F and G (instead of F like I did before) will the missing 40g show up in G now or will it still be missing?
Thanks!

texasranger · « **Reply #7 on:** October 03, 2004, 04:07:00 PM »

yeah it will be in G

potna · « **Reply #8 on:** October 04, 2004, 02:29:00 AM »

man i have had the exact same problem...cant offer any help but i bet you arent limited to having to use the g partition. ...infact you should find that once you partition f there wont be anythign left to partition, so g will fail...to be expected ...i think

i am upgrading the same way you are via a xenium ice chip wich is the shit
but i have lost half the hd somehow...man i have seriously been looking into this for about 13 hrs or so between the last 2.5 nights

there are tuts on this that go in so many freking directions with so many damn varibales that i am completely lost now. i think that we need to look into diff bios i guess but there is a god damn crazy dynamic within this itself. some shit will work, some shit wont , thats bascily my concluision at the moment ..i ll be watching to see if yo ufigured this out...mean while you could pm me next year when i figure this out and i ll share the wealth, while everyone else is moding their damn xbox next..

potna · « **Reply #9 on:** October 04, 2004, 12:11:00 PM »

not to take over this guys thread but.....is slayers realy nesscessary?
i am technicaly using a soft mod, i am only using a chip temporarily. the built in hd upgrade wizard (on the chip) which worked on two other chipped boxes with 250gb hd's went smooth. also this worked on a softmod although i believe that the soft mod is making the box boot to bios that are limited in terms of hd capacities...does this sound correct? is this nothing more than than a matter of editing bios or changing them..that would be sweet but i have tried to do this and have had no real succes...i am using phoenix bios loader ....and i belive its booting xboxrom.bin...but i cant seem to be able to edit this or change this without a lock up ..and thank god for the extra chip that allows ftp access even when the damn hd and box cant seem to get along...any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated....

AlTheKiller · « **Reply #10 on:** October 04, 2004, 10:18:00 PM »

there is so much bullshit info in this thread...

if you insist on using m8 (or have a v1.6) apply the lba48 patch with evtool. just do the large partition 6 option, there is no reason to have a G drive with a 160, itll only be 23gb. otherwise save yourself the hassle and get ahold of x2_4983.06. flash your chip with one of these 2 bioses then reformat the drive. voila!

bigted41 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 05, 2004, 09:54:00 PM »

hey, i was having the same problems... i got it fixed tho... all i had to do was use slayer's disc to flash my modchip to a m8 v16 FC f: + g: (not too sure of the exact name, but it was the fourth option) even though my xbox isn't v1.6 it's a 1.4. 1.6 bios seems to be the only bios's that work for me.

after i got it flashed with slayers i had no problem formatting g: and getting my other 60 some odd gigs

hope i helped, maybe... even just a little

and slayer is great.

potna · « **Reply #12 on:** October 05, 2004, 11:15:00 PM »

def appreciate the feed back fellas...much appreciated...havent solved anything as of yet but i do thank you

AlTheKiller · « **Reply #13 on:** October 05, 2004, 11:53:00 PM »

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