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[kingroach]

if your partition is over 250+ GB then its better to have 32K clusters.. but under 250Gb it doesnt make much difference..

[JoeUser38]

QUOTE(kingroach @ Jun 16 2007, 08:26 AM)

if your partition is over 250+ GB then its better to have 32K clusters.. but under 250Gb it doesnt make much difference..

Good news.  Both are just under 250GB.  With 16K clusters, I'll lose less space in the slack area of the files, so I prefer it that way anyways.

BTW, with nkpatcher, which options are overiden when setting "KINGROACH_NDURE" (or whatever the define was... not on the computer, typing on my phone)?

[kingroach]

it overrides the booting xboxdash with eject.. it doesnt take away any features.. along with normal booting of msdash, it will enable you boot xbox live dash if you want..

[Contillion]

First of all, thanks for the Ndure installer.  My X2L was acting up (stupid pogo pins) and your installer really made it easy to switch over to a softmod.

I patched my C drive using the BASIC setting, which works as advertised.  I would like to change my install to RETAIL since I need to access the Xbox Dashboard to change my system settings (need to enable 5.1).  What do I need to do in order to do that?  Reason I ask is because I ran the installer again on a backup of my original C drive except this time used the RETAIL profile.  When I tried to upload those files over to the C drive on my Xbox, it wouldn't let me copy over some of the files like shadowc.img, the xboxdashdata folder, and a couple others.

Am I doing this right?  I noticed that there is now an H drive that has pretty much everything that I copied over to the C drive when I originally did the patch - would I need to update those files?

BTW - is UnleashX required for a softmod, or could I change the dash to EvolutionX or XBMC?  Would I just need to update e/dash/ with the appropriate files?

Thank you

[kingroach]

if you copied shadowc.img file in your first softmod attemt then you have shadowc enabled.. you dont need to change the softmod to get ms dashboard.. you can just copy fresh C drive ( from slayers etc) to the shadowc drive and run msdash from there.

you can use any dash you want... just replace files under E:\dash\ folder.

[Contillion]

QUOTE(kingroach @ Aug 15 2007, 01:21 PM)

if you copied shadowc.img file in your first softmod attemt then you have shadowc enabled.. you dont need to change the softmod to get ms dashboard.. you can just copy fresh C drive ( from slayers etc) to the shadowc drive and run msdash from there.

you can use any dash you want... just replace files under E:\dash\ folder.

How do I get to the shadowc drive?  When I FTP into my box, is the C drive that I see there the shadowc drive, because I see nothing there in that drive?

If so, I would just need to extract the fresh C drive from the Slayers disk, which includes these files:

[Audio]
[fonts]
[xboxdashdata.185ead00]
[xodash]
Xbox Book.xtf
Xbox.xtf
xboxdash.xbe

and FTP them over to that C drive?  Sorry if this seems elementary, but I'm new to the softmod world, so I'm not terribly familiar with the vernacular.

Thanks again.

[kingroach]

yes.. if you see nothing in C drive after you ftp then thats the shadowc.. just upload the files you mentioned..

[Contillion]

Worked like a charm - thanks kingroach

[Contillion]

One more issue - when I enter into MS Dash to change my audio settings (from STEREO to SURROUND), it appears that they do not get saved after a reboot.  Searching the forums, one said that I needed to add a backup eeprom.bin to my shadow c drive.  Before I ran the Ndure installer, I backed up an eeprom.bin file.  I went ahead and ftp'ed that to the C drive, so now my C looks like this:

[Audio]
[fonts]
[xboxdashdata.185ead00]
[xodash]
eeprom.bin
Xbox Book.xtf
Xbox.xtf
xboxdash.xbe

I went back into MS Dash, changed the settings and rebooted, but they did not keep.  Any ideas how to resolve this?

[kingroach]

run E:\ndts\default.xbe.. this will expose the real C drive.. copy th eeeprom in C:\shadowc\ folder.

[Contillion]

That did it.  Thanks again!!!!!!!!

[GregToR]

first of all: thank you very much for this installer! really awesome work ;-)

I used to work with Softmod Installer Deluxe 5.01 and Auto Installer Deluxe 4.12,
but since playing ISO games from hdd was not possible with that software I switched to Kingroachs Ndure Installer,

but I have some questions - comments:

first of all an annoying bug:
- when freshly ftp'ed, network is set to DHCP, so when I change it to Static and configure ip to 192.168.0.2 & reboot, the ip is after reboot 192.168.0.100... so have to adjust it again, and reboot again!? quite frustrating...

- in the standard UnleashX dash the fan is very loud, even louder than 20%, so I check and put treshold to 45C and fan speed is set to 1x, but still remains that loud?!

- as I read in this thread it's normal that files of C are not visible when Retail is chosen, why's that?
in SID5.01 & dual boot (MS dash and EvoX/XBMC) it's also with shadowc.img, but the C files remain visible (I think only those softmod files like shadowc.img etc. are invisible), cause this makes the menu entry MS Dash useless (since XBox says then can't find necessary files...),

- I went from my old softmod to Ndure like this: made the patched C and E files with installer, deleted my C and E files, ftp'ed them (didn't work at first, files could not be transferred, so I used Restore C with files in E:backup),
but my question now is, do I have to install Ndure Retail also in install menu of UnleashX (E:ndts/default.xbe)? and what does activate Ndure do (necessary?)? and what about nkpatcher settings: 'use nkpatcher.67 w...' ? also for nkpatcher.67 there are 2 entries: they both end with 'w'... so I don't know what the difference is between them?

I used AID4.12 to format my hdd, does that go in conflict with this Ndure softmod?

any info/help very much appreciated,

thanks in advance   ,

Kind regards!

[GregToR]

ok I think I understand about MS dash now:
I just have to install the unmodified C files on the shadowC invisible C (therefore appearing empty drive)?
so I've first ftp'ed the C and E files made by the Ndure installer, then when in softmod dash C shows no files (invisible because of shadowC), I ftp the standard unmodified C files so I can use MS dash too? correct?

derived that from this post, if I understand it correctly: http://forums.xbox-s...p;#entry3346273

and running nkpatcher.67 is to enable G drive (6=F, 7=G), do I have to re-format it after that? can I use AID4.12 for that?
still don't know what the difference between those 2 'use nkpatcher.67 w...' entries are... anyone?

and please check if you know the answers to my previous questions in earlier reply...

thanks!

[GregToR]

what I was also wondering:

in AID there's an option to 'Unmount Virtual C' after which you can uninstall its softmod,
but when I want a fresh install of a softmod I just format C and D,
in that case everything's gone right, so no need to 'Unmount Virtual C' first?
a format wipes everything clean, right?

the fact that the fan runs louder now (in UnleashX dash and everywhere else outside XBMC (in XBMC I configured it to just keep it at max. 45C, so it's silent there), is that because of the UnleashX dash (and its settings?), if it can't be changed I'm definitely going to change it to EvoX or XBMC dash...


thanks,

Regards

[kingroach]

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I just have to install the unmodified C files on the shadowC invisible C (therefore appearing empty drive)?
so I've first ftp'ed the C and E files made by the Ndure installer, then when in softmod dash C shows no files (invisible because of shadowC), I ftp the standard unmodified C files so I can use MS dash too? correct?

Thats correct. C drive files are not visible because shadowc is activated. Normally the installer copies the original C drive files in in shadowc ( if you are using the xboxhdm installer). Otherwise, you need to copy the C drive files to shadowc ( the empty C after softmod is installed).

you shouldnt need to format the drives again if you choose nkpatcher .67. As you said .67 is for F and G drive and .06 is for F drive only.