Topic: 1 TB SATA Hard Drive Upgrade (Read 1524 times)

ABuNeNe · « **Reply #195 on:** November 07, 2009, 09:16:00 PM »

Bought a SATA to PATA adaptor and tried out on a WD 320GB SATA HDD. FTP C and E drives data on my existing Xbox HDD (a Seagate 200GB PATA) and set up the SATA HDD using xboxhdm. Connected the SATA HDD with the adaptor and it run XBMC and some other apps fine.

Was trying to find out ways other then wasting time FTPing G drive data drive back and fore but in vain. Nearest I got is using Xplorer360 but it can't detect my unlocked drive on my PC.

Gave up and revert back to using the PATA HDD. Maybe will try this again when I get a 1/2 TB SATA HDD. Hope there will be a better way to transfer data when upgrading Xbox HDD either on PC or Xbox console soon.

This post has been edited by ABuNeNe: Nov 8 2009, 05:35 AM

firefighter1023 · « **Reply #196 on:** November 10, 2009, 04:12:00 PM »

Ok, here we go. I thought this was running way too smoothly to be right. Here's the basic setup.

WD 1TB Drive, Deal Extreme SATA/EIDE Adapter, v1.0 xbox, X2 5035 Bios TSOP.

When I installed the drive I formatted with XBpartitioner 1.1 with 64kb clusters, all installed on F:, everything was recognized beautifully. I have copied approximately 300gb of game data to the F:, at this point the drive will no longer allow anymore data to be written to the drive. I get a failed transfer/copy even though XBMC and DVD2Xbox show's 640+gb is still available. I get failed transfers now in XBMC, DVD2Xbox and FTP.

Any idea's? The only thing I could imagine is I didn't format with 64 but 32 instead, thinking I did 64kb. IS there any way to check? Rerun XBpartitioner?

firefighter1023 · « **Reply #197 on:** November 10, 2009, 04:38:00 PM »

Ok, XBS won't let me edit my post. Anyway, an update to my last post. I reran XBpartitioner and it states my drive is full. Shows under my extended partitions that 0 of 953869MB is available. I don't understand, XBMX and DVD2Xbox thinks there is room but XBpartioner does not. This is XBP 1,1 with LBA48 patch V3.

Bomb Bloke · « **Reply #198 on:** November 10, 2009, 10:27:00 PM »

XBMC etc are talking about free space available on your partitions. XBPartitioner is talking about the total amount of drive space that isn't assigned to any partition at all.

To check your cluster size, boot the EvoX dash and note what it says about the free space on F. Add a single file to that partition (10kb or smaller), and subtract the new free space figure from the old. The result, divided by 1024, is the cluster size in kilobytes.

XBP 1.1 doesn't allow you to choose the cluster size. It chooses for you based on the size of the partition you're making. Note that previous versions of XBP do give you a choice, but don't let you use 64kb clusters.

firefighter1023 · « **Reply #199 on:** November 11, 2009, 06:13:00 AM »

QUOTE(Bomb Bloke @ Nov 11 2009, 05:27 AM)

XBMC etc are talking about free space available on your partitions. XBPartitioner is talking about the total amount of drive space that isn't assigned to any partition at all.

To check your cluster size, boot the EvoX dash and note what it says about the free space on F. Add a single file to that partition (10kb or smaller), and subtract the new free space figure from the old. The result, divided by 1024, is the cluster size in kilobytes.

XBP 1.1 doesn't allow you to choose the cluster size. It chooses for you based on the size of the partition you're making. Note that previous versions of XBP do give you a choice, but don't let you use 64kb clusters.

Is it possible that XBpartitioner changed the partition table but didn't format the partition? I would think if this happened, applications would think there is a 900gb+ partition available, but can't write to it after a certain point if it wasn't formatted properly. The only reason I mention this is I read another post where someone ran XBP, it sounded as if it allowed him to change the partition table but he didn't realize he would also then need to format as a second step and that the cluster/format wasn't in a single step.

I'm moving all my data off of the drive right now while I'm at work. When I get home I will try your method to check the cluster size. Then I suppose I'll try a reformat with XBP again and see what happens. Preferably I will just have a single F partition, but if need be I'll split it across a couple.

Thanks for the help Bomb Bloke. I'll reply back with my results in the hope it may help someone else.

This post has been edited by firefighter1023: Nov 11 2009, 02:14 PM

firefighter1023 · « **Reply #200 on:** November 12, 2009, 08:02:00 PM »

UPDATE

Ok, I offloaded the data that I had on the F partition. I then formatted again with XB Partitioner 1.1 but instead of creating one enormous F partition I spread it evenly across F & G. I reloaded the data then resumed ripping games back to the HDD. So far so good. I haven't had another error where the file system denied copying files thinking that the partition was full when it actually was not.

Bomb Bloke · « **Reply #201 on:** November 13, 2009, 02:30:00 AM »

QUOTE(firefighter1023 @ Nov 11 2009, 09:13 PM)

Is it possible that XBpartitioner changed the partition table but didn't format the partition?

Something along these lines is possible. I've heard reports where if you tell it to format a partition that you haven't changed the size of, it simply won't bother.

All I can really recommend is to do the EvoX test I mentioned early on, to avoid nasty surprises later.

This post has been edited by Bomb Bloke: Nov 13 2009, 10:31 AM

psyman · « **Reply #202 on:** November 18, 2009, 04:15:00 PM »

does anyone know where I can get a compatible sata/ide convertor in the UK?

scullc · « **Reply #203 on:** November 21, 2009, 01:51:00 AM »

QUOTE(psyman @ Nov 19 2009, 12:15 AM)

does anyone know where I can get a compatible sata/ide convertor in the UK?

i have a spare one here in the UK. Its not the deal extreme one (some generic one i got off ebay). but it works - but boot time is nearly 1 min. The Deal extreme one is much superior.
Anyhow if you want it - its (basically) free! Just cover the cost of postage.
PM me your details

gugutz · « **Reply #204 on:** November 25, 2009, 06:35:00 AM »

Finally, after more than 1 month, my SATA to IDE conversor from Deal Extreme got here!

Now i'm choosing between a Samsung 1.5tb and a Seagate 1.5tb

Any of you guys know if anybody have been lucky with these two manufacturers?

As soon as the HD gets here i'll test and input here later my results.

firefighter1023 · « **Reply #205 on:** November 25, 2009, 01:26:00 PM »

QUOTE(gugutz @ Nov 25 2009, 01:35 PM)

Finally, after more than 1 month, my SATA to IDE conversor from Deal Extreme got here! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Now i'm choosing between a Samsung 1.5tb and a Seagate 1.5tb

Any of you guys know if anybody have been lucky with these two manufacturers?

As soon as the HD gets here i'll test and input here later my results.

Please do, I've been successful with my 1tb WD but with prices coming down rapidly as usual I'm curious to look at a 1.5 or 2tb. Hell, I might just purchase two drives, remove the DVD drive and put them on a switch.

gugutz · « **Reply #206 on:** November 30, 2009, 05:16:00 AM »

But did anybody so far had any sucess with hard drives that weren't Western Digital?

Anybody had sucess with Seagate, more specifically?

psyman · « **Reply #207 on:** December 09, 2009, 10:34:00 AM »

Is it possible to have 2 hard drives in an xbox & have them both accessable at the same time?

Xmodder deluX · « **Reply #208 on:** December 09, 2009, 11:01:00 AM »

You can put two hard drives in an xbox, but you would have to make a switch that powers one on and the other off.

lithium210 · « **Reply #209 on:** December 09, 2009, 11:47:00 AM »

I just did the same thing on two xbox's. Both 1.0 and 1.1 with a Hitachi 500gb sata and using this sata to ide adapter: hxxp://www.frys.com/product/5983774?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG So far i just get a bit of lag and on one xbox it'll have an occassional lockup or black screen at startup but a reboot fixes it. weird stuff.

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