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PedrosPad

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« Reply #30 on: October 30, 2004, 03:18:00 PM »
QUOTE (nm6687 @ Oct 30 2004, 10:11 PM)
the only thing that makes sense to me is that all original xbox games look for UDATA/TDATA on launch, and if they're not there then they fuck up.

The XBOX will boot up just fine with an empty drive E!  The MS Dashboard simply recreates the files/structure it needs on E.

(I've just reconfirmed this myself using the latest Dash (5690.01))
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« Reply #31 on: October 30, 2004, 08:43:00 PM »
Pedro, did you also try booting from dvd directly into a game, or just straight to msdash?  Might as well go ahead and nuke my T/UDATA folders.. Feel kinda stupid for not already knowing..smile.gif
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« Reply #32 on: October 31, 2004, 04:25:00 AM »
QUOTE (triggernum5 @ Oct 31 2004, 04:46 AM)
Pedro, did you also try booting from dvd directly into a game, or just straight to msdash?

Just booted from HDD to the MSDash.

I checked out drive E afterwards and E:\CACHE and E:\tdata had been recreated.  No E:\UDATA, but I expect this too would simply be created on first usage.
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« Reply #33 on: October 31, 2004, 05:27:00 PM »
QUOTE (Mnm6687 @ Oct 30 2004, 02:11 PM - part)
yes, an xbox can boot an original with an enpty C drive, but cannot boot an original without an E drive.

I've tested this today using three different originals (with an empty E partition) and they all booted fine.  I suspect they'd do likewise if the C partition was empty too eh. wink.gif
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« Reply #34 on: October 31, 2004, 05:38:00 PM »
In my knowledge, emtpy drives boot orginals,as long as the clock is set.
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« Reply #35 on: November 06, 2004, 11:07:00 AM »
I've tried this utility disc again, to confirm whether my memory of it was good (and it wasn't entirely)!  Upon completion it ejected the tray and displayed "System refresh | Xbox successfully updated. || XTL Version 1.00.4020.1" and here's what I found on the disk afterwards eh...

it had not changed the C partition at all (C:/ and everything in it seemed to be entirely untouched, as before, unaltered, without change, no different, the same);

likewise, which suprised me, it had not changed the X an Y partitions;

it had done a format (or purge) of the E and Z partitions;

it had only re-created these entries in the E partition eh:
TDATA/fffe0000 (and for a slightly different test, the music sub-dir was there too)
UDATA/fffe0000/TitleMeta.xbx (re "TitleName=Online Updater Application")
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