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lawina900

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« on: February 22, 2006, 05:15:00 PM »
I have a modded xecuter 3c - x3 3294 bios and latest evox dashboard with a 160gb drive.  F drive has 137gb and G drive has the rest.  I am thinking about upgrading to a 500gb drive.  Since F and G will be full at 137gb apiece can I then have an H drive with 137b and an I drive with the remainder?   Is there a dashboard that will allow H and I drives?  I would appreciate comments from anyone who has done a 400 or 500 GB drive.


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Cappi

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« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2006, 05:20:00 PM »
No, format it with xbpartitioner to 32k clusters so that you can have one big F drive.
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lawina900

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« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2006, 06:17:00 PM »
thanks cappi,  has the 32k cluster method been stable?
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Strud1512

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« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2006, 08:35:00 PM »
QUOTE(lawina900 @ Feb 23 2006, 01:48 AM) *

thanks cappi,  has the 32k cluster method been stable?

It is no different to standard 16k cluster formatting so stability is not changed - it just increases the maximum partition size. It does mean that the minimum space a single file will use on the HD is 32kb, so a game with a lot of small files will take up much more space than usual.
eg 10x5kb files will use 10x32kb space on the HD - 320kb instead of 50kb.

However with a 500gb HD, I don't think you will notice  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
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rockrdr

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« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2007, 03:23:00 PM »
Ok, I'm a noob, I've looked everywhere and read lots, but with so much information, and opinions, an answer is few and far between..
 I have my xbox 1.1, x3 3294 bios, 500 gig hard drive, I just lost all my data...
I have read that my chip and bios supports 500 gig drive with Lg "F" I formated it thru the bios so I dont know if it was 32k cluster or not. some places say not to go over 256gig no matter what, fatx wont read it, also says with xbpartitioneer I can use all F in 32 k cluster. I dont want to loose my stuff again..

Question:
 Will my setup support a large F with no loss of data as it gets full?
 or should I just be on the safe side and do the .67 half on f and half on g?

Thanks in advance
Jason
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