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[juan23]

so then, basically i can ftp to xbox, copy all my files from the (E) drive, upgrade the bios, and rewite over (E) then transfer back my apps and files to the newly sized (E) partition, and have everything working and seeing all the drives as they were before, except (E) would be larger?

[oz_paulb]

QUOTE (NghtShd @ Sep 2 2003, 07:40 PM)

I don't think oz_paul means overwrite E:. Basically, your old E: would still be there, just invisible. The new E: partition (consisting of the +137GB area) would replace it. If you switched back to a non LBA48 BIOS your old E: would return.

Correct.

[juan23]

i see, damn i would just be happy overwitting the old e partition, but i then can just copy all the stuff from the old e drive and copy over to the new, and leave the other e invisible, unless i really needed it.

Now would this be  aproblem going forward with saved games, being saved to the invisible drive.

Of course i would much rather reformat my drive and start from scratch, but this would work till i find the time to do that

[juan23]

yeah thats what im getting out of this, to me this is woth it, till i have enoug time to reformat and start fresh.

now how would i just do that instead of the simple way reformating?

do i just add the new bios selecting partition 6 up to 137GB/ No partition 7.

would this move the remainder over to E?

[juan23]

sounds great man, either way would be cool, if this is to much on adding that, then no worries, ill just reformat another drive with the large hdd patch to add all in F partition.

[oz_paulb]

QUOTE (goan_trance @ Sep 2 2003, 09:10 PM)

Paul, I currently have a 250Gb drive in my xbox. I bought this mistakenly when I modded my xbox, as I was unaware of the 137Gb limitation re: the modchip. I currently have data on the harddrive (backed up game, etc.) which is not vital, but I'd rather keep if possible. (I have a second copy elsewhere as well). Thanks for the LBA048 patch...really helpful in terms of unlocking my harddrive's full space. I currently have Evox installed on my xbox, and it is recognizing the 137Gb max....just a few questions: 1) I've downloaded xbtool (the new release)....do I just unzip it , burn it as an iso, and load it into my xbox, or do I need to reflash my mochip or something? 2) Let's say I don't care about the current info on the HD....do I still choose "Partition 6 takes rest of space"? 3) I am assuming once (2) is done, it will show the remainder HD space under F:  ....do I need to do anything else besides reformatting F:? Thanks. Let me know. Goan.

Xbtool is a Windows app that takes a bios image (.bin - EvoX D.6, X2 4977/4978, for example), and lets you make changes to it (including now the LBA48 patch).  You run this app on windows, and generate a new bios image (.bin).  You then need to re-flash your modchip (using whatever method is the normal method for your modchip) in order to get it into your Xbox.

If you don't care about what's on F: (you don't mind losing all data/games/apps on F:), then choose ""Partition 6 takes rest of space" in Xbtool when generating the new bios.  Boot your Xbox using the new bios, re-format F:, then reboot again.  At this point, you'll have an empty F: drive that uses everything up to the end of your disk (not limited to being below 137GB any more)

If you want to preserve what's on F:, then you should choose "Partition 6 uses up to 137GB / Partition 7 uses rest of drive".  That'll leave your F: partition alone.  You'll then need to figure out how to format your 'extra' paritition (partition7) and get files onto it.  Again, hopefully some of the standard utilities/dashboards will start supporting extra partitions.

- Paulb

[vmehta211]

Paul,
   I have a WD 160GB hard drive.  I was wondering if there was a way to assign the rest (23GB) of space that my xbox cannot see to a drive letter "V:" and then use EvoX's format utility to format the drive?  I think these types of questions have been asked and answered before but I am unclear why this is not possible.  I want to use the remaining 23GB to store backup games and am not planning on running any apps from this "V:" drive.  I will only need to add the addItem.. command to evox.ini to add the games on my "V:" drive to have them show up in Evox's menu.

[oz_paulb]

QUOTE (vmehta211 @ Sep 2 2003, 09:45 PM)

Paul,     I have a WD 160GB hard drive.  I was wondering if there was a way to assign the rest (23GB) of space that my xbox cannot see to a drive letter "V:" and then use EvoX's format utility to format the drive?  I think these types of questions have been asked and answered before but I am unclear why this is not possible.  I want to use the remaining 23GB to store backup games and am not planning on running any apps from this "V:" drive.  I will only need to add the addItem.. command to evox.ini to add the games on my "V:" drive to have them show up in Evox's menu.

Is there any way (via an .ini file, etc) to tell EvoX that it should assign drive "V:" to the partition "\Device\Harddisk0\partition7"?  That's the biggest stumbling block I can think of - getting EvoX to 'mount' drive "V:" when it starts up (in Xbox, only some of the 'standard' drives get mounted automatically - it's up to apps to mount the rest of them).

It may be possible to have the LBA48-patched bios automagically mount a drive letter (V:, for example) to that partition.  In that case, I think the "additem" command may work.  But, I don't know if you FTP'd to EvoX if it would show you a drive V: for transferring files, or if the built-in format commands would support V:

Slightly off-topic question: Is EvoX dashboard still actively being developed?  I made a couple of posts on their forum (when I was having problems with "ConfigSector", and never got any sort of 'official' response (only other forum readers giving their opinions).  Just curious..

- Paulb

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[mattg39]

avalaunch is currently working on adding support for partition 7 in the ftp server, file manager, and auto list for games.

[oz_paulb]

QUOTE (mattg39 @ Sep 2 2003, 10:54 PM)

avalaunch is currently working on adding support for partition 7 in the ftp server, file manager, and auto list for games.

That's good news!  Hopefully other apps will follow...

- Paulb

[juan23]

i have an extra 160 gig hdd with some files on it, can i just reflash with new bios through evox, then reformat hdd?

[juan23]

well ill give it a shot through evox to see if it works that way, if not ill go back to traditional methods, ill let u know my results once im done

[juan23]

get this on xbtool i go to open my bios but all the 1st 2nd 3rd boot sequence are all greyed out, and nothing in there??

anyone encounter this?

[juan23]

oh damn this sucks, i cant even reflash my chip with ozx, evox messed be all up, and no damn external flash either.  this is not good