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RustyVp

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« on: February 04, 2020, 07:59:00 AM »

Ok i need some questions answered!

I formatted my 1tb hard drive with xbox hdd manager and chucked it in my xbox with an executer 2 chip.
I booted up xbmc and it said it had 942gb

What the hell, I heard that an xbox can't handle a hard drive bigger than 500gb
I don't know why i tried it. Just had a spare 1tb sitting on my desk next to my xbox. Thought id give it a go.

So my question is. When i start copying data across to my xbox will it get to 500gb and die?
I've already started copying stuff across but 500gb will take a while to copy. Just thought id post it just in case someone can tell me the answer before it copys across!
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Jongamer

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« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2007, 10:59:00 AM »

No offence but.

Who the heck just has a spare 1TB drive laying around  blink.gif  uhh.gif
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« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2007, 11:09:00 AM »

QUOTE(RustyVp @ Oct 15 2007, 03:59 PM) View Post

Ok i need some questions answered!

I formatted my 1tb hard drive with xbox hdd manager and chucked it in my xbox with an executer 2 chip.
I booted up xbmc and it said it had 942gb

What the hell, I heard that an xbox can't handle a hard drive bigger than 500gb
I don't know why i tried it. Just had a spare 1tb sitting on my desk next to my xbox. Thought id give it a go.

So my question is. When i start copying data across to my xbox will it get to 500gb and die?
I've already started copying stuff across but 500gb will take a while to copy. Just thought id post it just in case someone can tell me the answer before it copys across!


I'm not familiar with xbox HDD manager, but did it reformat the drive with the appropriate cluster sizes?

I'd find a copy of XBPartioner and use that, properly formatted an xbox can handle more than 1TB.
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« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2020, 12:07:00 PM »

I would definitely reformat with 32k clusters before putting any data on there. There have been posts of 750gig drives working great. It is all in the preparations.

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Bomb Bloke

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« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2007, 05:05:00 PM »

Using normal formatting tools, each partition will be formatted with 16kb clusters. Catch is the X-Box only seems to use three bytes to address these, and if you do the mathes that means you'll only be able to use 256gb worth of space.

(Try and put more on and you overwrite the file table, causing bulk deletion of your data!)

XBPartitioner gets around this by letting you format with 32kb clusters, meaning that you require half as many clusters to cover up to 512gb worth of space. Try and put on more data then that, and there goes your data (again).

However, you can make two large partitions, labeled as F and G. By evenly dividing your 1tb worth of space between these you shouldn't have any issues. In theory you could use an even larger drive by doubling the cluster size again or pulling out another partition label from somewhere, but I don't think there are tools to do this yet (I've never even heard of someone trying a 1tb drive before).

Note that as far as I know you can slap as much space into a partition as you like. You'll only run into problems when you pass the 256gb/512gb thresholds I mentioned before by actually putting data onto the drive.
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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2007, 01:52:00 AM »

QUOTE(RustyVp @ Oct 16 2007, 12:19 AM) View Post

I'll let it copy all day today and get back to you guys when it's full to let you know if it works.


Waste of time... you'll hit 256gb and random data will start to dissapear. Save your sanity, split F&G evenly and reformat both with 32k clusters. Xbpartitioner will do both for you.

Make sure that your bios will allow custom partitions. most do by default anyway.
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RustyVp

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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2007, 05:31:00 AM »

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