Topic: My Thomson Drive Sucks! (Read 112 times)

MHolodak · « **on:** January 10, 2004, 01:36:00 PM »

I have burned an Xiso of EvoX to a Memorex CD-RW and tried it in my XBOX 40 times (no joke, 40) And it keeps giving me this error, "Your XBOX can't recongnize this disc". My X-BIT is enabled and my Bios is flashed with the 4890 Xecuter Bios... This is getting me very frustrated! Im trying the dummy file trick but maybe I am not doing it right...

rob1309 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 10, 2004, 01:40:00 PM »

u do know that not all cdrw media works with all drives?
verbatim cdrw doesnt work on my thompson but others do

MHolodak · « **Reply #2 on:** January 10, 2004, 01:42:00 PM »

I know, I have researched what media is the best with XBOX Thomson drives on some websites and people from this forum many people say Memorex is the best for Thomson.

tribefiend · « **Reply #3 on:** January 10, 2004, 01:45:00 PM »

Perhaps your not burning it right. You should definately need a dummyfile if it won't read after 40 tries without one.

rob1309 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 10, 2004, 01:46:00 PM »

and bout dummy files
only way you can mess that up is if you put em at end of a disc instead of beginning
00.dat will put it at the beginning more than likely unless u have filenames that are before that...
when i consider using dummy files, i dont make an iso, i just burn the contents to disc and usually use a 300MB dummy on 4MB programs
but all this is a thing in past anymore unless ya just starting out

edit: i suggest using nero or something cuz it's very easy to do correctly
and i just checked, i have a few memorex cdrw discs with stuff and of course they do have some issues and takes a few minutes to get working at times

MHolodak · « **Reply #5 on:** January 10, 2004, 01:48:00 PM »

tribefiend, explain to me how you made your dummy file? I made a zip folder and I put 530 mbs of stuff in it and put all took all the EvoX stuff and made an Xiso with Craxtion (w/ both the Evo X and dummy file in the ISO). Does this sound right to you or is there something I am doing wrong..

rob1309 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 10, 2004, 01:50:00 PM »

easy way to make dummy files is using a hex editor or find a dummy file maker
DCemulation should have one and so should megagames in the dreamcast section

MHolodak · « **Reply #7 on:** January 10, 2004, 01:50:00 PM »

So rob, you didnt even make an xISO you just put all the files in Nero with the dummy on the top and the EvoX stuff under it?

rob1309 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 10, 2004, 01:52:00 PM »

yea i don't screw with making isos anymore, just takes longer and i get same results either way

rob1309 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 10, 2004, 01:54:00 PM »

http://www.megagames.../dc_utils.shtml

under disk tools they have plenty of dummy file makers and they are pretty fast

MHolodak · « **Reply #10 on:** January 10, 2004, 01:56:00 PM »

yeah, i just downloaded autodummy, ill let you know how it goes.

tribefiend · « **Reply #11 on:** January 10, 2004, 02:09:00 PM »

sorry mholodak...i've been away for a few minutes. I used dummyfile maker to make 100mb dummyfiles. i called them 1.dat

MHolodak · « **Reply #12 on:** January 10, 2004, 02:46:00 PM »

All of these dummy creators are bogus on megagames. They arent for what I need to do. Some are from music and others used in DOS...

rob1309 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 10, 2004, 02:50:00 PM »

...all you gotta do is create a file of certain size, those creators do it fine
then rename to 00.dat or something

MHolodak · « **Reply #14 on:** January 10, 2004, 03:05:00 PM »

Ok, well I downloaded the dummy file called Dummy File Maker. And right when I open it, it opens the command screen and immediatley blinks off the screen. All the thing I downloaded is is some program called dummy is this what I make bigger? Can you explain how I make it bigger?

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