Topic: Reformat And Re-install Software (Read 33 times)

jake_heke · « **on:** May 06, 2007, 10:55:00 PM »

Great Forum of resources, I've managed to navigate my way around and find some possible solutions.

Auto Installer is an option and Slayers installer 2.6 which are apparently apps that you can burn to a normal CD-R disk instead of DVD-R disks, which suits my purpose even more so since I have a standard burner, and I'm currently reading through a couple of tutorials about reformatting etc.

Great Stuff.

If anyone wants to add something to this thread, by all means, it would be much appreciated.

jesterrace777 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 07, 2007, 12:07:00 AM »

One thing to keep in mind is that not all XBOX DVD-ROM drives will read CD-R backups. Post which drive you have in your XBOX back here.

xboxgamer733 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 07, 2007, 09:42:00 AM »

The most likely reason why your hard drive became corrupted is because you filled its 'F' partition beyond the 256 GB corruption point. Before I offer any more help, is this the case with your Xbox?

If so, is your Xbox still able to boot to a dashboard?

xboxgamer733 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 07, 2007, 03:16:00 PM »

If a partition is formatted with the standard 16 KB cluster size, it will become corrupted if it is filled beyond the 256 GB point. However, if a partition if reformatted using 32 KB clusters, it will not become corrupted until data filled it to the 512 GB mark.

The easiest solution to your problem would be to install the application 'XBpartitioner' to your Xbox's 'E' drive, and reformat only your 'F' partition using it (XBpartitioner will automatically choose to use 32 KB clusters). Afterwards, you would be able to safely start loading your data back onto your F drive.

jake_heke · « **Reply #4 on:** May 08, 2007, 01:04:00 AM »

Thanks for the additional information.

I didn't know that they had a programme that could deal with partitioning and reformatting, that would have helped heaps but I basically ended up going with the Evox method of reformatting, it seems to be working OK, I just have to load up the F Drive again.

Question though:

Is there a quicker way to load up the games / applications etc in F Drive? They seem to copy slower from PC to Xbox as opposed to Xbox to PC?

Mind you, I did load up avi files to the xbox pretty quickly, could it be due to the amount of file in a game and the total size of the game folders? It's averaging about 30mins per game as it is. This could take forever!

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