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Martinezx

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« on: October 15, 2004, 12:07:00 PM »
Hello.  I have a small question for all of you who have upgraded from a big hdd to a bigger hdd.  I currently am upgrading from a brim-full 120 gig to a new and beefy 250 gig.  Now i did a smart drive upgrade, and it finished rather quick...problem was that it didn't copy over my f partition.  no problem, I went to copy partition and selected copy 'f'.  Now I am writing this 24 hours later, heh.  Now my real question is how much longer can this take?  And if there is a faster way to do the copying without a computer with a giant hdd also.  (I have a laptop with a 14 gig....*sigh*)
Thanks in advance.

....life is sad without an xbox to play with...*sniff*
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« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2004, 12:26:00 PM »
Hate to say it, but the fastest way WITHOUT a computer is the way you're doing it right now.  I always wondered what the Xenium OS really meant when it stated:

"Warning: Copying the F:\ partition can take an INSANE amount of time (24 hours or more)"  (or something along this line)

Guess this answers my questions about the HD Upgrade Wizard
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Martinezx

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« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2004, 01:34:00 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2004, 04:58:00 PM »
Well, if you have another xbox.... You can put the 120 in there and use, say, avalaunch to copy the files...
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« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2004, 06:31:00 PM »
QUOTE (appleguru @ Oct 16 2004, 01:01 AM)
Well, if you have another xbox.... You can put the 120 in there and use, say, avalaunch to copy the files...

Which also happens to be the fastest way to upgrade from a big hd to a huge hd smile.gif

ps: the upgrade time with the XOS partition copier is measured in days not hours.... and i'm not sure if it will even work
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Martinezx

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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2004, 07:11:00 AM »
ok...i'm reaching the 48 hour mark soon....and something hit me in my sleep.  I have gentoox linux on my xbox...(I'm sure you know where i'm taking this)  Now my question is since gentoox can read (and write?) on an xbox partition, would it be able to recongnize my 250 gig as a slave drive and could I copy my f partition to it from there?
Anyways, this came to me in my sleep so I don't think I thought it through all the way yet, but give me some of your guys input on it.

Thanks.

...Two days without an xbox is too long...
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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2004, 09:08:00 AM »
Just unlock the drives, suck it up, and copy it in a P.C thats all. you judt wasted about 2 days of your life over nothing!
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Martinezx

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« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2004, 09:11:00 AM »
if you would've read the earlier post, I have a laptop with a 14 gig hd....wouldn't work to well...heh
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« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2004, 12:46:00 AM »
Even if u just have 4 to 5 gigs free on your notebook I'm guessing it wud be faster if u swap drives and ftp, more work with the constant swaps  of cables but u wud probably transfer the whole lot within a day  :D  
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Martinezx

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« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2004, 07:43:00 AM »
Day 3...finally done....I am never doing that again....
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« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2004, 08:32:00 AM »
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« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2004, 10:43:00 AM »
QUOTE (GuyBrush @ Oct 17 2004, 04:35 PM)
woah!

3 days

cud u give us an exact figure of gigs  that u had to transfer and an approxiamte time?
wud be great for future reference...  rolleyes.gif

The problem is if the time grows non-linearly relative to the amount copied or something
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Martinezx

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« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2004, 02:32:00 PM »
lemme see here...I had a 120 gig western digital hdd.  
120,000 MB drive (given no drive is exactly the size it's supposed to be)
   - 499 MB C Partition
- 4,881 MB E Partition
   - 749 MB X Cache
   - 749 MB Y Cache
   - 749 MB Z Cache
- 2,700 MB  Free Space On F Partition
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109,673 MB Total Transfered (not counting other partitions cuz XOS does those quickly)

And It took about 60 hours total to transfer the Partition.  Hope this helps.

P.S.  And did anyone think about my theory on copying the f partition through linux to the new drive hooked up as a slave?                                    
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« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2004, 04:34:00 AM »
QUOTE (Martinezx @ Oct 17 2004, 10:35 PM)
lemme see here...I had a 120 gig western digital hdd.  
120,000 MB drive (given no drive is exactly the size it's supposed to be)
   - 499 MB C Partition
- 4,881 MB E Partition
   - 749 MB X Cache
   - 749 MB Y Cache
   - 749 MB Z Cache
- 2,700 MB  Free Space On F Partition
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109,673 MB Total Transfered (not counting other partitions cuz XOS does those quickly)

And It took about 60 hours total to transfer the Partition.  Hope this helps.

P.S.  And did anyone think about my theory on copying the f partition through linux to the new drive hooked up as a slave?

Yah, I think that might work.
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