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Heimdall

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« on: February 22, 2012, 04:17:00 AM »
By "ndure and hdm" presumably you mean Kingroach NDURE 3.1 and xboxhdm 1.9? These sorts of details are often useful when troubleshooting......

Clearing the cache (E:\cache\) and the X, Y and Z partitions should help make your games run better.

On the disk size / cluster size front, we may as well cut to the chase. Reformat your drive using XBPartitioner 1.1 (and yes, the version is important!) and that will sort out the cluster size, and importantly will write an on-disk partition table. The link in my signature explains how to do that, and how to check the cluster size. That will allow you to set up F and G properly (or you could just have one large F partition)
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« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2012, 02:11:00 PM »
No, that sounds perfectly normal. First run of Halo takes an age to load the textures etc. into the cache, second run loads in a few seconds. I've always suspected that the disk handling code is designed to copy from DVD to the cache on the hard drive, but not to copy from one part of the hard drive to another, and that there is some small, subtle, easy to fix if you knew where to look, tweak that would fix this.

Not related to your problem, but I'm struggling with why you'd want a 10GB G partition. Why not make one large ~390GB F partition?
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« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2012, 02:42:00 PM »
QUOTE(JonnieMazda @ Feb 22 2012, 09:32 PM) View Post
Or a manual wastebasket.
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Thinking about it, you're probably right. 5 Minutes is a bit too long - mine takes what feels like an age, but is probably only around a minute. The only thing I can suggest is that you check the jumpers on the drive (master / slave / CS, and sometimes there's one about LBA48 or emulating different drive layouts). Essentially, you're now down to trial and error on jumper settings, or try a different cable, or reformat the drive in your PC, scan for errors, look at the SMART statistics, to see if there's anything fundamentally wrong with the drive.
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« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2012, 02:24:00 PM »
Well after trying out different jumpers and whatnot I still couldn't get it to load faster. I found the solution that worked for me was to buy another drive, format it and replace this one. Success! This new drive is working and Halo and other games are loading/playing at full speed now.

Thanks for the advice!
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