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LiquidXed

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Bios X2 4981, Hdd Help
« on: May 30, 2011, 10:20:00 AM »
Also, after i flash the TSOP i remove the brige points
is it safe to leave them connected for future flashes?

i Just Flashed with iND 5003.67, gonna try that, and hopefully it fixes my HDD problems... i dont understand what it goin on with it, but it has to be the bios that i was usen, cause both drives had problems and i just reformatted  tested with h2testw 1.4 on my pc and both drives r fine
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lordvader129

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« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2011, 09:27:00 PM »
its not a bios issue, its how the drive is formatted

you have to use xbpartitioner, it uses 32k clusters for partitions over 256gb to avoid corruption

xbp 1.1 or 1.2 (i forget which version its on) will also use 64k clusters on partitions over 512gb
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LiquidXed

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« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2011, 01:56:00 PM »
Also, after i flash the TSOP i remove the brige points
is it safe to leave them connected for future flashes?
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Heimdall

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« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2011, 04:18:00 PM »
QUOTE(LiquidXed @ May 31 2011, 06:53 PM) View Post
so i just went back to my 320GB HD and em gonna use G: so i dont need to format it with xbp, right? it only show the option to format with 16k, and thats what evox formats with if im correct..?

Yes, you only have to use XBPartitioner 1.1 or higher if either of the F/G partitions is larger than 256GB.

And yes, you can leave the TSOP points connected. Just don't leave Evox on your Xbox, so none of your friends / family is ever tempted to "see what this menu option does........" smile.gif
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« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2011, 02:53:00 AM »
Unfortunately your information is old, and no longer correct, and hasn't been correct for some time.

First of all, 06 BIOSes haven't been limited to 130GB for over 5 years - the LBA48 support in all BIOSes since 2005/2006 means that much larger single F partitions can be addressed.

Second, 06/67 makes no difference if you format the drive with XBPartitioner 1.1, because it writes an on-disk partition table, and the BIOS will use that instead of its fallback hard coded partition information. 06/67 is only needed if you format the disk with Evox or xboxhdm 1.9 or its derivatives.

These two facts mean that you can use either BIOS and configure the disk to suit your needs, so long as you use XBPartitioner 1.1 to do the formatting.
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