Well... Not really sure where to begin, but like many of you here when I get bored I do random... "stuff" to my xbox. I play with new apps, useless apps, fiddle with the Bios and just for fun I occasionally manage to wipe my improperly formatted F drive (accidentally) (IMG:
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In a nutshell, here's what happened:
Extended partition on a my 500gb HDD was way big and improperly formatted. I had no G Drive. As anyone would expect, data corruption occurred (sorry, I was just too lazy to double check the first time around). Without thinking, I
1) opened up X3 Live config
2) changed settings to LBA487 mode
3) Formatted.
Then I remembered that I had somewhere around 90 backups and tons of TV shows on the box. Not wanting to spend the better part of a week unshelving discs and begging them to run on my long broken DVD drive, I frantically searched the forums for an HDD recovery solution that I knew didn't exist. And I was right, there was no solution. I found a few posts referencing WinHex to back up HDD images, some other software that supposedly works (Yet doesn't read Fatx. and hence didn't work either) and numerous posts that more or less explain that HDD recovery is synonymous with piracy (Burn in hell, I have receipts (IMG:
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At last I had given up, and figured I might as well rescue the few apps and saves I had on the E partition, but not wanting to risk running it on the xbox I grabbed a copy of Xplorer360 9 Beta and searched away. No success. It didn't even read the disk. I would up having to search my box for ver. 5, which did read the drive. And here's where I get to my point:
All my drives popped up. All of them. Way at the bottom of the list, a miracle had happened; my now formatted F partition showed up, with all my backups, apps, TV shows along with various builds of Xport yumminess. Shocked, I plugged the drive back into the Xbox, which now displayed an F: drive with 137 GB free and a G: drive with a few hundred GB free as well. Nothing else. Curious to see if the files worked again, I slapped it back in the PC.
Movies played, backups worked and everything seemed good. If anyone decides to accidentally a whole xbox like I did, see if you can read your files with Xplorer360. I liked it ok before, bugs aside, but now I can't imagine using anything else.
Edit: I suppose it's important to note that
I did not attempt to write to the partition after formatting it, which may explain at least partially why my files were still there.
This post has been edited by Fade Iczer GEast: Apr 20 2009, 01:48 AM