Topic: Defragging the Xbox the hard drive. (Read 2948 times)

sncboom2k · « **Reply #120 on:** March 21, 2003, 07:44:00 PM »

That's the last I heard as well, I guess the guy doing it dropped the project. I went to Xbox-Dev and they had no new info on it. Tried emailing the guy, but he doesn't respond.

archon76 · « **Reply #121 on:** March 21, 2003, 10:43:00 PM »

QUOTE (sncboom2k @ Mar 22 2003, 02:01 AM)

A long time ago, someone announced Defrag-X for the xbox. It was in developement. Has anyone figured out how to defrag this beast yet? Mine is getting louder and slower by the day. When you have 120gig HD in your xbox - it gets fragmented pretty easily... Any info would be great!

Thanks
Sncboom2k

If it is getting really BAD.

There is a way you can fix the fragmentation, but it is time consuming and a large pain in the butt.

Really all that is needed is the files to be placed on the XBOX so that fragmentation does not occur. The only way right now to do this is copy every thing on the HD to your PC. Wipe the XBOX drive clean and copy the Files back over.

There should not be any fragmentation after this is done.

As I said before unless it is REALLY BAD, I would not mess with it. After you do this, unless you delete and copy a large amount of data, it should not get fragmented.

Novahux · « **Reply #122 on:** March 22, 2003, 05:35:00 AM »

I don't know what all the fuss is about defraging, its an xbox, not a Win32 PC. by the time it will realy need a defrag a 120GIG Hard drive will be obsolete.

Cannibalistic · « **Reply #123 on:** March 24, 2003, 10:02:00 AM »

Hi All,
Does anyone know if any group is working on a Hard Disk Defragmentation Utility? As you know over the time, Xbox's HDD become defragmented.

On my PC, I used Executive Software's Diskeepr v7.0 on a daily basis, and my PC is always in top shape and speed!

Your comments would be greatly appreciated.

slamer · « **Reply #124 on:** March 24, 2003, 10:11:00 AM »

i think diskkeeper is tha bomd. set it and forget it.

theres no defragmenter official as of today.

Xeero · « **Reply #125 on:** March 24, 2003, 01:37:00 PM »

I read somewhere (a long time ago) that the Xbox was much more resistent to file fragmentation:

because it's file system is structured differently. NTFS is much less susceptible to fragmentation than FAT32 so this would make sense.
because it isn't used as much as PC HD. Most of the writing done to a hard drive is in small files such as cache or saved games.
because it is much more partitioned than a PC HD. Cache is on E. Saved games are on E and (J?) the memory card(s). Any fragmentation would be bound to these partition tables.

Of course swapping games around all over the hard drive may nullify any and all of these as it can result in massive file fragmentation. MS obviously won't care about this because this is not how the Xbox was intended to be used. Someone may be able to code a defragmenter but the demand may not be high enough to warrant such development.

Cannibalistic · « **Reply #126 on:** March 25, 2003, 12:53:00 AM »

Can we turn it into a petition?

at lease some groups might be interested!

PrismSub5 · « **Reply #127 on:** August 01, 2005, 05:34:00 PM »

Well if the xbox doesn't have enough RAM for defragging.
Windows can't access FATX for defragging.

What about,

Porting a linux defragger to XBOXHDM
voila enough RAM and FATX access...

(dunno how many times someone thought about this

)

Defrag for Linux Debian

TKramka · « **Reply #128 on:** August 01, 2005, 06:50:00 PM »

And then you'd have to put the HDD in your PC to defrag it, which would be cumbersome.

TattooedBear · « **Reply #129 on:** August 02, 2005, 07:53:00 PM »

Uhhhhh.... huh huh
FTP! Yay!
hahahaha

rjm2k · « **Reply #130 on:** March 28, 2003, 01:53:00 PM »

QUOTE (nutsinya @ Mar 28 2003, 08:53 PM)

i'm not sure what defrag really does, but i'm under the impression that it organizes the files on my hard disk. is there a utility for the xbox that will defrag my 120gig hdd? with all of the files that i move around and games that are added/deleted on a weekly basis, i would think that i should defrag it once in a while.

or is defragging totally useless?

No need for defragging. The xbox copies most of your game to the temp drives which are wiped clean so no fragmentation. I seriously doubt that you would notice any fragmentation issues anyway.

nutsinya · « **Reply #131 on:** March 28, 2003, 02:34:00 PM »

i probably should have been more specific, but i wasn't referring to the temp drives, but about my f drive and the games that I add and remove every now and then.

thanks for the response though.

Novahux · « **Reply #132 on:** March 28, 2003, 07:42:00 PM »

xbox apps, including homebrew, rely very little on virtual memory and disk swaping (the cause of fragmentation).

By the time the xbox HDD (original or aftermarket) becomes seriously fragmented, it will be an obsolete console and there will be an emulator for it on the Xbox4. or Pentium 6

socrates · « **Reply #133 on:** September 18, 2002, 05:16:00 PM »

Exactly like the subject says, is there going to be a scandisk and defrag for the xbox and how soon can we expect to see them?

Hammy · « **Reply #134 on:** September 19, 2002, 04:54:00 AM »

I hope that there is a defrag util soon as i know that mine needs a defrag soon as i can hear the hard drive hunting for files like on a pc and even if there is no defrag util on the xbox i wish there was a driver for the xbox file system on the pc so i could connect my xbox hard drive to my pc and defrag it and replace it back into the xbox

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