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[heinrich]

GG has the source now.. if Pillzburydoofus or someone else has a legit need for the source, PM and I'll see if I can help you out.

[rick_spengler]

Hi. I just modded my v 1.3 x box with an executer 2.6 lite chip and I have EvoX version 3921. I have to admit I'm fairly new at this so excuse me ahead of time.

My first problem and most important is that I purchased a 160 gig Western Digital HDD and the X box does not recognize all of this.

Partition 6 recognizes 120.516 gigs
Partition 1 recognizes 4.767 gigs

On the settings menu It says that both F and G drive are enabled.

I do have Flash FXP as well.

Finally the Bios says unknown but the Kernal version is 1.00.4983.67

So my question is this, How do I retrieve the missing area of space without losing my bios or dashboard (being that I dont have a copy of the slayers disc). I dont mind losing games or saves or anything else except the aformentioned items.


Second question as well, not as important as the first. Whenever I turn my chip off I get the green screen of death and I'm unable to load any games or the ms dash directly. Is this what everyone speaks about when they say banned from x-box live? Help.

Aim. RickSpengler
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[Jrzy_GamEr]

QUOTE(KiLaHuRtZ @ Sep 1 2003, 07:09 PM)

one quick question.  i have a 160GB in my box right now and i want to "unlock" the extra 23GB with your code, however if i just patch the BIOS will i have to re-format my entire drive or will it just boot up normally with the extra 23GB showing up in the F drive.  once again i want to add that 23GB to my F partition but i don't want to lose my data either.

[networkBoy]

If you enable F (to 137gig)  & G drives you should be ok.
If you enable F takes rest of drive, you will corrupt your existing data.
Make a backup to be sure in either case.
-nB

[wup]

Lol who started up an 8 month old thread again

[Tobb555]

QUOTE

Sep 1 2003, 05:25 PM

thread kinda old isnt it

[oz_paulb]

All -

Check the main xbox-scene news page for info on the latest version of Xbtool.  It supports LBA48 and partition tables.
I thought I'd create a new topic here for feedback (hopefully all success stories), and questions.

REMEMBER: This is 'beta' code - use at your own risk!

Update:  Don't choose "Partition 6 Takes Rest of the Drive" if you plan on using an existing drive (with data already on F:) that's > 137GB!  This will increase the size of the partition assigned to F:, but since it was formatted while it was in a smaller partition, the FAT structures will not be correct.  This will result in data corruption!  Only choose this option if you intend to re-format the entire F: partition (or if you're starting with a new drive).


Thanks to NghtShd for his help in incorporating the changes into Xbtool.

Full source code/more info will be released in the next couple of days.

- Paulb

This post has been edited by oz_paulb: Sep 2 2003, 02:50 AM

[oz_paulb]

Oh, and for those who haven't been following the other thread, "LBA48 support" means support for hard drives larger than 137GB.

- Paulb

[PM5K]

Congrats, hopefully everything goes well for everyone. Personally I have a 120 and I don't think that I'll be upgrading to anything bigger any time soon. My real concern at this point is not the drive size but the fragmentation, maybe you can look into that, I can only imagine how much worse fragmentation would be on even bigger drives, uploads would slow to a crawl.

[Gman22]

nicely done...thanks for all your work to the scene...i have a modchip coming soon, and ill be getting a bigger hard drive to back up the games i own...now i can get larger than 137 thanks alot paul

[bborski]

just checkin it out, i dont have a new hard drive to test it yet but soon. just a quick question, what does "Ignore Hard Drive Partition Table" mean? i didnt see any thing about it in the documentation

[oz_paulb]

QUOTE (bborski @ Sep 2 2003, 02:45 AM)

just checkin it out, i dont have a new hard drive to test it yet but soon. just a quick question, what does "Ignore Hard Drive Partition Table" mean? i didnt see any thing about it in the documentation

It's possible to put a partition table on the first sector of the hard drive (I'll document how to do this later).

(the partition table defines the start and size of each of the partitions on the hard drive (example: partition6 is "F:")).

All of the options in Xbtool are for the 'default' partition table that's created at boot-up time.  If a partition table is seen on the boot sector of the hard drive, then that one will override the 'default' one.

Normally, this is what you want - it'll allow for 'partition table editors' to be created that'll let you move/resize partitions, etc.

But, if for some reason you screw-up your hard drive's partition table, you can always go back to the 'default' by using Xbtool and selecting 'Ignore hard drive partition table' (and re-burning your flash chip with the new code).  This is more of a safeguard than anything else - just in case the hard drive gets messed up.

- Paulb

This post has been edited by oz_paulb: Sep 2 2003, 01:25 AM

[boxorox]

Thanks for all your work Paul.  I have a 160gb, but I think I'm gonna wait it out a little.  It's not quite full yet and I really don't want to start over.  However, it is very comforting to know you gave me back 23gb.

[oz_paulb]

QUOTE (boxorox @ Sep 2 2003, 03:12 AM)

Thanks for all your work Paul.  I have a 160gb, but I think I'm gonna wait it out a little.  It's not quite full yet and I really don't want to start over.  However, it is very comforting to know you gave me back 23gb.

Once other apps allow for things to be stored on other partitions (instead of hard-coded "F:" support), you should be able to create a new partition that's just the 23GB after 137GB (assigned to some other drive letter).  Then you can store some of your stuff there (without losing your F: drive contents).

- Paulb

[Biznaz]

from what i've read, can't you just allocate the rest of your 160gb to partition7, leaving partition6(F:) untouched?  I was planning on doing this.    to you paul.