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[Heimdall]

So, your F partition is 230,785.47 Mb, and you have 0.13 Mb free. The rest of the disk is used for the C, E, X, Y and Z partitions, another 8Gb approximately. The difference between the sum of these numbers and the 250Gb you were expecting is that disk manufacturers quote the size in numbers of bytes divided by multiples of 1000, whereas operating systems quote size in multiples of 2^10 i.e. 1024, so the OS always reports a lower number.

FYI, if you have a chip you don't need to use chimp to build a new disk, you can use Slayers or AID - it's much quicker.

[Heimdall]

Ah. That's different. Before you started the disk was showing ~110GB used, and that's not good. Fire up XBPartitioner 1.1, to see if your BIOS supports LBA 48. If it doesn't XBPartitioner 1.1 will complain.

At this stage you aren't going to reformat the F partition - but that is the most likely next step.

[Heimdall]

It means you need to change your BIOS, and then reformat.

First, make sure you have a copy of everything you just transferred to your Xbox, because it's about to disappear from your Xbox.

Grab X2.5035 from the usual places. Edit X2config.ini to point to your preferred dash, put it in the root of C:\  and E:\ (you only need it in one, but I can't remember which!). Use X2ool to edit X2.5035 (NOT the 1.6 version) so that it puts all the extended space in F (under the misc tab, it will be something like "Partition 6 takes all", but ignore all of the other tabs and settings), then use Evox to flash your edited BIOS to your chip.

Reboot, run XBPartitioner 1.1 and format the F partition, reboot, check that the F partition now shows all the space as available, then start transferring files.

[masterofpuppets]

Its working now . Does this mean I have to update the bios whenever I use this chip before I put a larger hdd in?

[Heimdall]

If it's working then that's good - just make sure you have a backup of everything you put on there!

If you want to install a drive where either of the F/G extended partitions is larger than 250Gb then you'll have to use XBPartitioner, and for that you'll need a newer BIOS.