Topic: Defragging the Xbox the hard drive. (Read 2817 times)

LepPpeR · « **Reply #60 on:** May 11, 2004, 05:39:00 PM »

There is nothing at the moment that will allow you to defrag your hard drive.

triggernum5 · « **Reply #61 on:** May 12, 2004, 06:40:00 AM »

Forgive me if this was already discussed as I skipped about 20 pages of this huge topic, but I was thinking that the fact that games work off the cache drives which are formatted often (xbe flag) might greatly reduce fragmentation due to games. I think the culprits are gonna be programs with thousands of little files like xbmc (awesome dash/app). In other threads memory issues were discussed, but I was thinking that the easiest way around that is to do it on the PC. A Linux app that could be made intio an iso?.. If anybody has any experience programming low level hdd functions then I'll volunteer to be a beta tester. (With my stock hdd:) )

mrRobinson · « **Reply #62 on:** May 12, 2004, 10:01:00 AM »

Just an update, the avalaunch team is working on stuff, here is a thread about it:
http://forums.xbox-s...howtopic=213411

GuyBrush · « **Reply #63 on:** January 15, 2003, 01:26:00 PM »

from what I understand is that the box uses a file system similar to NTFS

now fragmented files don't really affect NTFS sytems - I can vouch for that cos I defrag my XP system like once a year (when I'm bored)

then again I'm hearing of games from hdd that give the "dirty disk error"
some ppl think it cud be fragmented temp files since the retail discs also refuse to work even though they work on other boxes....

Chopstick · « **Reply #64 on:** January 15, 2003, 01:30:00 PM »

GuyBrush · « **Reply #65 on:** January 15, 2003, 01:34:00 PM »

small addition

your files will still get fragmented but it will not affect performance that much.
ntfs file systems are still able to access and handle fragmented files as if normal!

thats what I meant! sorry if it wasn't clear...........

M3_DeL · « **Reply #66 on:** January 15, 2003, 02:02:00 PM »

file system is fatX!!!!!!! That is a fact, read my sig!!!!

jman11587 · « **Reply #67 on:** January 16, 2003, 12:59:00 PM »

m3, u gotta learn to calm down and actually read things before u go and yell at people, ur just making urself look stupid.

J

taint · « **Reply #68 on:** January 16, 2003, 01:05:00 PM »

I can't count how many times I asked myself "Why can't I defarg my xBox.

wmfms · « **Reply #69 on:** January 16, 2003, 01:16:00 PM »

Just for the record, I used to copy and delete games (1.5-3gbs) very often, thinking no defrag wouldn't be a problem.

Except about 3 months in, the newer games I copied would begin to hang during the intro animations, and the older ones would take ages to load (Timesplitters 2 especially, I could leave it on the loading screen for 10 minutes before anything would happen!!).

And a week later, the 80gb HDD made a high-pitched whirring sound and died.

So DO NOT copy and delete games or any massive files (1gb+) from your hard disk.

I read somewhere that the translucent green debug unit allows you to copy games to the hard disk, and I've seen an debug cd on ebay that claims to have a defrag util on it - which would make sense.

BenJeremy · « **Reply #70 on:** January 16, 2003, 01:33:00 PM »

Just a quick note: I fixed the title.... I kept looking at it saying to myself "defarging? Huh? Is that like Debarge, the 80's one hit wonder?"

Mshake · « **Reply #71 on:** January 16, 2003, 02:23:00 PM »

hmm, this article from a forum seems interesting, it says xbox hd's uses auto-defragging at all times!? wonder if it's true and applies to replacement xbox hds.....
now, if this is true it makes me wonder whether there ARE any differences between a conventional hd and the original hd that comes with the xbox!?... but then again, if there were any differences other than the old ata security measures, we wouldn't have been able to put the original hd into our pc and use it eh ..

Check out the forum article here

BenJeremy · « **Reply #72 on:** January 16, 2003, 02:30:00 PM »

Well, there is no difference in the drives (the "magnets" nonsense was probably just used to put it into layman's terms), but the XDFS probably does aid in defragging.

Unfortunately, even NTFS, big brother to XDFS, requires defragging now and then.

Still, XDFS requires little bother and shouldn't bog down too much.

Mshake · « **Reply #73 on:** January 16, 2003, 02:32:00 PM »

sorry, this was a mistake double post... didn't know, ... may be pc too darn laggy..
when i first posted, ... a red msg appears that says 'flood control' .. so i waited for 8-9 minutes and post my msg hehhee.. didn't know it would do a double post ..

dapoopta · « **Reply #74 on:** January 16, 2003, 02:36:00 PM »

so what is the answer to our problem? well i remember there was a thread similar to this a while ago..and the answer would be to copy over all ur games from xbox to ur computer and totally whipe the xbox hdd clean and re do it all again after u reformat it. might work.but i dont have a spare 120gigs on my comp

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