This isnt looking to good. I had my Maxtor 320Gig HD die on me last week so this morning I went out and picked up a Seagate 400GB HD. I get home, pop it in, try and boot my trusty evox HD prep CD-RW and all I get is 1/2 the SuperFro error screen cut diagnally, botton left corner is all screwed up graphics, I can see the error in the top left, its Error 16. I looked that up, it has to do with not having Dashboard files (duh!) but I cant get my Xbox to boot from my barely used Samsung DVD-Rom. Any thoughts?
BTW, my Maxtor 320G as well as 2 Maxtor 250G HDs did the EXACT same thing to me this week, the super slow loading Evox bootup. I ran the Maxtor PowerMax software and it claimed all the HDs were bad, even though the 2 250G HDs were brand new retail drives bought from different stores. They all worked fine for a day or 2, then went belly up, then the next day my 320G does the same thing. I am starting to wonder if there isnt something else going on here. This all happened in different Xbox's as well, so it wasnt one Xbox causing it.
BTW, I had the 280Gig problem when I first got my 320Gig a year ago, that is definately one limitation for size, but if you split it to F/G like you did, no problems.
EDIT: Ok, the problem doesnt seem to be related to the 400GB HD, I just popped in a new 160G I picked up for my PC and it does the same thing with that drive. That makes me feel a little better, at least its not a problem with the 400 (yet). Now time to figure out WTF is going on.
EDIT 2: Ok, I am the idiot of the day. I didn't check the first thing I alway tell my customers... make sure the clock is set. Now its done formatting and getting ready to load up, wish me luck.