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

davidarcher2000 · « **Reply #90 on:** February 02, 2003, 11:49:00 AM »

I've been having the same problem.

I modded my Xbox two days ago and have been transferring games from my PC to the Xbox HD with FTP. The first game (Halo) took about 10 minutes to transfer over. The second game (Splinter Cell) took over two hours.

I'm about to put in my new 120 gig HD though this afternoon and the FTP backup is currently going at like 30k/sec. Just backing up the C partition is going to take like 40 minutes. I'll report back after the swap is done and see if that fixes anything.

My settings are as follows:

Passive FTP is off, I've tried two FTP clients (FlashFXP and WS_FTP Pro) and both give me the same dismal transfer rate. I've tried setting my network card media type settings from Auto-detect to 100BaseTX then to 10BaseT with no change at all in the speed (It's back on Auto-detect now). My PC and the Xbox are plugged into a Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless Access Point/Router/4-port switch. Both have internal private IP addresses on the same subnet and the default gateway (for addresses not on the same subnet) points correctly to the router's IP. I'm using a brand new Executor 2 Lite mod chip with EvoX Dashboard V1.8.3285.

Current HD free space on Xbox:

C - 346M
E - 227M
F - 2238M
X - 754M
Y - 786M
Z - 14M

My gut instinct is that this is an EvoX FTP Server problem but that's just a SWAG. The Xb-FileZilla project looks promising as it was created for this very reason (poor performance from the EvoX FTP Server). Unfortunately, they don't have any binaries up on their SourceForge page and I have yet to discover how to compile my own software for the Xbox.

Anyways, I'll report back after the HD swap this afternoon and let you know what kind of speeds I get then.

MrWizdumb · « **Reply #91 on:** February 02, 2003, 11:56:00 AM »

MrWizdumb · « **Reply #92 on:** February 02, 2003, 12:08:00 PM »

MrWizdumb · « **Reply #93 on:** February 02, 2003, 12:34:00 PM »

i'm formatting my 30 gig right now and i'm gonna go ahead and backup my xbox HD and try format F:/ after that i hope it doesn't get all fragmented and shit, are there things i should know that will keep it from getting fragmented?

Aussie14 · « **Reply #94 on:** February 02, 2003, 02:19:00 PM »

All I do is burn them to a DVD-RW and copy the files over woth XB commander. Real easy.

alexkraemer · « **Reply #95 on:** February 02, 2003, 02:53:00 PM »

out of curiousity, how big is Halo?

SumDumGuy · « **Reply #96 on:** February 02, 2003, 05:54:00 PM »

I'm with Aussie14 on this one. Are you doing all of these transfers from XboX DVD to PC via FTP and then from PC to XboX Hard Drive via FTP just to get them copied? Cuz if you are then for goodness sakes get boXplorer, HDDLoader, XBCopy, XB Commander or something. You can and should use them to copy straight from the DVD to the Hard Drive. The only reason you should be copying them to the PC is if you want to share them or burn a DVD of them and the only reason you should really be copying them from the PC is if you got them off of newsgroups or if its a homebrew...

Just my $.02,
SumDumGuy

SumDumGuy · « **Reply #97 on:** February 02, 2003, 06:20:00 PM »

Ah, well that is a good reason. I don't have any know what could be causing or how to fix the speed problem. Once I get mine I will do some testing and if no one has established a fix/workaround I will see what I can find. But if it really is hours and your just trying to get a backup of your disk anyway, then just go rent it from your local movie/video game rental store for a few bucks. Sure, you may spend $5 or something, but is a few hours worth $5?

MrWizdumb · « **Reply #98 on:** February 02, 2003, 07:15:00 PM »

its just i'm trying to get these "backups" on my xbox

MrWizdumb · « **Reply #99 on:** February 03, 2003, 02:52:00 PM »

MrWizdumb · « **Reply #100 on:** February 04, 2003, 05:21:00 PM »

thx for the tip it worked, i wonder how my HD woulda gotten fragmented...?

hockeyguy · « **Reply #101 on:** November 16, 2004, 06:08:00 AM »

No... none other than backing up your files, formatting and defrag in PC and then reformatting and reinstalling your files.

jeeproject · « **Reply #102 on:** November 16, 2004, 09:24:00 AM »

hockeyguy · « **Reply #103 on:** November 16, 2004, 09:32:00 AM »

Sac2K4 · « **Reply #104 on:** November 16, 2004, 09:55:00 AM »

really.. the best thing to do is to erase evry thing and format... casue the games will most likely have frags in themselvs.. dont you gotthe original cd for your backups?

Sacroligous

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