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[zerovandez]

I deleted "my progams" section in the xbmc.xml, rebooted and it didn't go into my UX dash. Made a boot disk, and found that my whole F drive was wiped!! It's ok though, just 130gigz worth of backups that I don't play.  Well...just to let u guys know what can go wrong so be very carefull!!  It only erased what partition it was on.  Strange but soooo dam true!!

This post has been edited by zerovandez: Apr 29 2004, 09:20 PM <

[Butcher_]

Er, have you flashed a bios recently? Sounds like it booted a bios without large F drive support.

This post has been edited by Butcher_: Apr 29 2004, 09:43 PM <

[zerovandez]

No, havn't flashed for a couple of months..I am using the 4981.67 bios.  <

[Butcher_]

I'm assuming you have a large F: - given that, shouldn't you be using 4981.06, .67 bioses can cause your F: drive to disappear.  <

[jingjing]

Why have a G: drive anyway if F: drive is all you need. Is there a limitation on the size of F:? Is this why you need a g: dirve?  <

[Loto_Bak]

Its for people who have hard drives formated before they developed the new 06 bios's. Bascially it allows anyone with a hdd formated to 133 ( or whatever the max is) to use the extra space at the end of the drive. To save the data on this old partition (that was there because in the past large harddrives were not supported) it must create a new drive. Basically dont use .67 UNLESS you have a harddrive that was limited by the 137gig upper limit. For most users that is NOT an issue because they have always used the .06 bios.  If you need the .67 bios you'd probly know... and if you dont know... just use .06  <

[Butcher_]

Yeah and if you use .67 with a F: that's bigger than 137GB it'll make it look empty. Switching to .06 will make all the files reappear though.  <

[JayDee]

06 = ALL space on f:
67 = All space upto 1370gb on f: and the rest on g:  <

[zerovandez]

I have a 160gb HD, using 4981.67  <

[triggernum5]

I have a 120gig drive, and I've had 49xx.67 bioses without a single glitch.  So have a few friends.  What are the issues exactly?  Do you know any links to technical details?  <

[Butcher_]

The issue is .67 bioses don't work properly if your F: drive is over 137GB. You get what appears to be an empty F: drive then.
.06 Bioses don't work with drive G: afaik.

So basically if you have a >137GB F: you need .06, if you have G: you need .67. Otherwise both work equally well.  <

[bigga]

I heard somewhere as well that the partition limit for HDDs in fatx in 256Gb.  So if your f: was going to be over this size you would also need to use .67 (So this only affects people with 260Gb+ drives)  <

[triggernum5]

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I heard somewhere as well that the partition limit for HDDs in fatx in 256Gb. So if your f: was going to be over this size you would also need to use .67 (So this only affects people with 260Gb+ drives)

I've never heard anything about a 256 gig limit.  I actually though that 137 gig is the actual partition size limit, and that you had to partition anything above that to g:.  I have lg hdd support cause I end up swappping drives with friends alot  I'm really liking this large drive support now..  <