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[Nimrodookie]

Hi I finally managed to get my XBox(booted with the EvoX bootdisc) to connect to my laptop.

I realised that under the HDD information in settings, all my drives registered as 0 bytes. When I tried to transfer files over from my laptop to the Xbox, they fail to transfer because it is registered as 0 bytes, hence there isn't enough HDD space for the files.

I tried swapping the HDD for another 10GB one I had lying around in my storage, the Settings also registered that as 0 bytes.

Is there any method to "refresh" the HDD? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers & Merry Christmas to all!  

[senator]

Firstly do you have a seagate / western digital original hdd... or a larger one fitted...
and what partitions read o, F:  or all of them?

Only 8gb are used and F: needs to be formated...

This post has been edited by senator: Dec 25 2004, 02:46 AM

[Nimrodookie]

QUOTE(senator @ Dec 25 2004, 02:39 AM)

Firstly do you have a seagate / western digital original hdd... or a larger one fitted...
and what partitions read o, F:  or all of them?

Only 8gb are used and F: needs to be formated...

Hi, my xbox is a version 1.4 and uses a Western Digital Original HDD.
All the drives register as 0 bytes.
How do I go about formatting the drives? Do I need to add new command lines to my evox.ini?

This post has been edited by Nimrodookie: Dec 25 2004, 02:50 AM

[senator]

Western digitals are only 8gb....
So unless all you want is a stock hdd with no F:  use that....
More on the story though on how you have a hdd with that scenario
Did you put another one in from somewhere? Why? etc...
What mod chip you have etc...bios ?

Are you running a boot disc to view the sizes?  does the xbox boot to MS dash ??
If they all read 0 then your box wont boot, no dashboard on hdd etc?

OR your XBOX works OK but you can't ftp to it???

This post has been edited by senator: Dec 25 2004, 03:20 AM

[Nimrodookie]

QUOTE(senator @ Dec 25 2004, 03:13 AM)

Western digitals are only 8gb....
So unless all you want is a stock hdd with no F:  use that....
More on the story though on how you have a hdd with that scenario
Did you put another one in from somewhere? Why? etc...
What mod chip you have etc...bios ?

Are you running a boot disc to view the sizes?  does the xbox boot to MS dash ??
If they all read 0 then your box wont boot, no dashboard on hdd etc?

OR your XBOX works OK but you can't ftp to it???

Hey Senator thanx a lot for replying! I realised that the MBR of the original HDD is probably screwed, so I changed out to a new 10GB Western Digital HDD and re-formatted it, now it works.

Only problem is I can't seem to be able to Lock it, do you have a code snippet I could cut and paste into my evox.ini? I know in the default evox.ini, the code to Lock and Unlock the HDD is commented out. I un-commented the code but it doesn't seem to work. Just for reference here is the code I have to lock the HDD:

[Menu]

Section "Root"
{
   Item "Launch DVD",ID_Launch_DVD
   Item "Trainers",ID_trainer
   Item "MS Dashboard",ID_MS_Dash
   Item "Reboot",ID_Quick_Reboot
   Item "Power Cycle",ID_Full_Reboot
   Item "Power Off",ID_Power_Off
   Item "Lock Harddisk",@210
   Item "Unlock Harddisk",@211
   Item "Install New Drive",@212
         .......
         .......
         ....... and so on....
}


[Action_10]

LogFile          = "f:\lock.log"
Info "This function will lock your XBOX Harddisk"
Warning "You will now lock your XBOX harddisk and will be able"
Warning "to boot from an original XBOX bios"

hddlockenable

[senator]

What version evox you running?  
Can't say why not locking on evox ??
Try configmagic final, if all you require is to lock the hard drive, and make a printed copy of the backup txt for later reference if required....

[Nimrodookie]

QUOTE(senator @ Dec 25 2004, 03:50 AM)

What version evox you running? 
Can't say why not locking on evox ??
Try configmagic final, if all you require is to lock the hard drive, and make a printed copy of the backup txt for later reference if required....

Thanx I've downloaded Config Magic and booted with it, but when I try to lock the HDD, it says HDD not lockable.
Do you know why that happens? Are there certain HDD's that are not lockable?

This post has been edited by Nimrodookie: Dec 25 2004, 04:24 AM