Topic: Defragging the Xbox the hard drive. (Read 2942 times)

nezff · « **Reply #15 on:** January 06, 2004, 05:31:00 PM »

this question has been asked before. As far as I know , there is no defragging for the xbox.

Deeez · « **Reply #16 on:** December 09, 2002, 04:17:00 AM »

I have a 120gig in my xbox and i about 18gigs left to fit more games. I was just wondering if
anyone had any problems deleting games that are old or dont want anymore. I one point i deleted a game and right after that 2 games in a row didnt work right. Do you think it left some files behind or what? Those games work find now but im wondering if anyone else deleted large amount of games and installed more after that or have had that simular problem.

archon76 · « **Reply #17 on:** December 09, 2002, 05:50:00 AM »

The only problem I could see is fragmentation. As long as the data is wrote continuous fragmentation should not occur. For example let say you put your originals on the hard drive for faster loading and backup one right after the other. The game files should not change or be moved by the system since it does not make changes to the game.

Now lets say you have three games on your hard drive like this.

game1game1game1game1game1game1
game1game1game1game1game1game1
game2game2game2game2game2game2
game2game2game2game2game2game2
game2game2game2game2game2game2
game3game3game3game3game3game3
game3game3game3game3game3game3

Lets say you delete game2 and it was 3gig. So you copy a new game to the hard drive to fill in game2. This game is 4 gig. Then it would look like this.

game1game1game1game1game1game1
game1game1game1game1game1game1
game2game2game2game2game2game2
game2game2game2game2game2game2
game2game2game2game2game2game2
game3game3game3game3game3game3
game3game3game3game3game3game3
game2game2game2game2game2game2 <--problem with speed

You can see the problem when it is reading game2 data it may have jump below game3.

Hope this helps

Deeez · « **Reply #18 on:** December 09, 2002, 03:12:00 PM »

archon76 · « **Reply #19 on:** December 09, 2002, 08:37:00 PM »

QUOTE

Unless the drive is really fragmented it should not make a difference. Seek and transfer times are *much* faster than DVD-ROM so I think you would hardly notices. There is a project on xboxdeveloper that is a defrag program for XBOX however there has not been a version released yet.

Granted the data transfer from a HD is considerably faster. If you are in the middle of playing a game and the hard drives has to seek back and forth beteewn different areas you WILL see it. As soon as you start deleting data and replacing it fragmentation will occur. The more you do the more it will happen. There have been many posts from people about this problem occuring. Thats why I posted what I did.

That project has been listed on their site for quite some time. I hope we will see it.

BaggerS · « **Reply #20 on:** January 15, 2004, 11:08:00 AM »

Is it possible to defrag the xbox HDD?

dewmonger · « **Reply #21 on:** January 15, 2004, 11:17:00 AM »

Not at this time, but some people are working on it.

D0Gs3gG · « **Reply #22 on:** January 15, 2004, 11:19:00 AM »

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

HA!

Xtrem · « **Reply #23 on:** January 15, 2004, 11:24:00 AM »

One Cool Feature Would BeTo Be Able To Scan And Clean The Hdd AndDefrag Like A Pc

lookformeb · « **Reply #24 on:** January 15, 2004, 11:26:00 AM »

QUOTE (Xtrem @ Jan 15 2004, 03:24 PM)

One Cool Feature Would BeTo Be Able To Scan And Clean The Hdd AndDefrag Like A Pc

"Cleaning" would turn into massive amount of issue with lesser life forms... bad idea.

Xtrem · « **Reply #25 on:** January 15, 2004, 11:27:00 AM »

QUOTE (D0Gs3gG @ Jan 15 2004, 09:19 PM)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

HA!

Are You Stupid Or You Just Like To Be That Way

BaggerS · « **Reply #26 on:** January 16, 2004, 03:56:00 AM »

D0Gs3gG
go tap sum buttons elsewhere then

ok is it possible to do it through linux as windows has its own defragmentor, or can even windows CE do this?

moistness · « **Reply #27 on:** January 16, 2004, 04:04:00 AM »

GFS · « **Reply #28 on:** January 17, 2004, 05:22:00 AM »

Having recently installed a 120gb HD to my system (Seagate, superb!) and have started to fill it with it with *stuff*, I was wondering:
Has anyone experienced issues with fragmentation over time (installing and de-installing apps etc) and is there a current or planned defragmenting program to solve it?
Ta...GFS.

moistness · « **Reply #29 on:** January 17, 2004, 05:28:00 AM »

Its a problem, same as pc drives, but no app yet for it, team avalaunch are/were sposed to be implimenting it in the future but no eta!

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