Post by: poopiemagee on February 07, 2007, 07:43:00 PM
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?sho...81073&st=45
But in a nutshell here's what my problem was:
Ok so here's the deal. I got a Seagate 750 gb hd as a gift and installed it in my softmodded xbox. Everything looked great,
the G: drive showed 523gb or something. So I started loading it up, then went into games and noticed some of the games
weren't listed. So I went into file explorer and although dvd2xbox went through the motions, the folders were empty. So I put
the game in and tried to copy in file exlorer...nothing, just get an error message right away. There's about 200gb left on
the G: partition but it won't let me copy anything to it. Does anyone have a clue why this is happening? I tried copying a
game in G:/games to G:/games2 and the same thing happened...it copied the folder but it was empty. And this was after file
explorer actually went through all the motions of copying it.
If this is happening to you, grab a seat and I'll tell you how to get out of it, because I finally got it through trial and
error (WEEKS of it!) and to thank the people that took the time to help me I've decided to give back! The problem is that
you need the .67 patch and in order for you to have that, you need the 5960 dash. Just do what I say because I know 100%
that it works!
What you're going to need-
Your Xbox's eeprom
Xboxhdm v1.9
slayers 2.6 or 2.7
Krayzie's NDURE
Craxtion 4.0
xbpartitioner
I'm going to assume you're coming here with an already modded large hard drive.
Open Slayers with Craxtion and extract the whole thing. You need to navigate to Slayers2.7\SYSTEM\ALL\ everything in there
you're going to need.
Now- take the CONTENTS of the ALL folder and paste them into the xboxhdm/linux folder. Create the iso (for more info on
doing this click here: http://www.techfreaks.org/articles/modxbox2.shtml ) BE SURE TO READ CAREFULLY ON WHERE TO PUT YOUR
EEPROM!!!
Ok, now burn the ISO you just made with xboxhdm. I'm being vague about this because the process is described perfectly in
the link above. Now shut down your PC and plug the large hard drive into the PC and boot to the dvd you just made.
Everything you need to know about this is in the link 2 lines up. Unlock the hard drive, copy the contents of the drive,
then lock it again.
Hook the drive back up to the xbox. What you now have is a 500 or 750gig hard drive with the regular xbox files on it- it
should boot to the msdash if you did it correctly. The good thing is it's now a 5960 dash! Now softmod it like you normally
would. I used the SID mod and hit patch 5960 when I finished modding it. Now FTP or copy over the Krayzie's NDURE mod and
xbpartitioner. Using one of the supported games (I used Splinter Cell), bring up Krayzie's. Back up the eeprom and then
have it update to the .67 patch. When all is said and done if you did it correctly your xbox light will now be orange. I
installed unleashx so when I booted up I had to go into system/storage and enable the g: in order for unleash to see it.
Ok good...now boot up the box and open xbpartitioner. Highlight the f: drive, press white until it says format in 32k
clusters at the top and then press start and y. Do the same for the g: drive. Restart and you should be good to go!
***NOTE- if your dash reports the full amount of space IT WILL NOT WORK! THE MOST YOU'LL GET OUT OF A 750g is about 715GB!!!
thanks go out to xman for his patience and help!!!!!!!!!!!!
This post has been edited by xboxgamer733: Feb 8 2007, 06:47 AM
Post by: xboxgamer733 on February 07, 2007, 10:46:00 PM
Good job on your success!
Post by: xman954 on February 08, 2007, 10:31:00 AM
BTW what are the actual drive sizes of F:\ and G:\ that unleashX reports ?
(important info for others that are upgrading to a 750GB HDD)
Post by: poopiemagee on February 08, 2007, 02:40:00 PM
And xman-
F: 123,423
G: 579,821
Post by: poopiemagee on February 24, 2007, 03:40:00 PM
xboxgamer you were right!
there WAS something wrong...i tested it and it seemed ok but i just reached the corruption point of the drive. i hit it with 100g left...so i've got 650gigs of usable space. to hell with it, that's good enough. it will bother me not knowing how to do this correctly though. argghhh!
Post by: bearcreek on February 27, 2007, 11:17:00 AM
Has anyone tried 3 large partitions? I know H drive is for the memory card, but it may be worth a try.
Post by: Shonk on March 01, 2007, 09:36:00 PM
press b it will split the hard drive exactly down the middle between f and g
instead of 137 gig on f and rest on g
format it
job's a good one
full 750gig
QUOTE(bearcreek @ Feb 27 2007, 07:48 PM) 
Has anyone figured this out yet. I have a 750 and formated using xbpartition in 32k clusters. I split the hd between F and G. Now I do not have access to 90 gigs on each drive, I am missing 180 gigs. I am using bios 5035.137 on a v4(I believe) xbox, which is supposed to correct the F larger than 137 gigs. I am now in the process of pulling all my files off of the 750 to try to format it a different way.
Has anyone tried 3 large partitions? I know H drive is for the memory card, but it may be worth a try.
Post by: bearcreek on March 03, 2007, 11:12:00 AM
Post by: poopiemagee on March 05, 2007, 09:05:00 PM
i did a little better than you...i only lost 100gigs
xman claims to have done it but he didn't take notes in the process so he's not entirely sure what he did.
its very frustrating isn't it? wish i knew before i bought the damn drive. for now i'm going to suffer with a 650gig drive (poor, poor me!)
Post by: bearcreek on March 07, 2007, 08:08:00 AM
Post by: snoopy22 on March 07, 2007, 09:34:00 AM
Will this one work ? Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3750640A 750GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - OEM
on a other hand i tried doing this with another hdd and i do all the step mentioned but at the last one, the one to lock the hdd, in xboxhdm i type the command to lock and it goes to try to lock but it says aborting and leaves the hdd unlock...anything im doing wrong...
This post has been edited by snoopy22: Mar 7 2007, 05:36 PM
Post by: FrostyTheSnowman on March 07, 2007, 10:07:00 AM
NOTE: You NEED a .67 BIOS before you can do this, and THIS DOES DELETE YOUR 'F' AND 'G' DRIVES! So, be sure to back up anything important before doing this.
1. Execute xbpartitioner
2. Highlight the 'F' drive (Partition 6) and click down on the RIGHT analog stick to disable that partition
3. Highlight the 'G' drive (Partition 7) and click down on the RIGHT analog stick to disable that partition
4. At this point both the 'F' and 'G' partitions should both be disabled. Now, press the START button and then the Y button to confirm the disabling/deleting of those partitions. Now, click the BACK button (Next to the START button) and press A to quit xbpartitioner.
5. Execute xbpartitioner again
6. Both the 'F' and 'G' drives should still be disabled, so now just highlight the 'F' drive (Partition 6), and press the A button to cycle through the common partitioning setups, and once the 'F' and 'G' drives are equal (same size, they should both be about 360 GB) press the START button and press Y to confirm.
7. Now, both your 'F' and 'G' drives will be formatted with 32k clusters. Once it finishes, just press the BACK button (Next to the START button) and then press A to quit xbpartitioner.
And you're all set! No corruption will occur now, as both drives are below 512 GB, and they are also formatted with 32k clusters. I have tried this method many times, and I have yet to see any corruption. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)
This post has been edited by FrostyTheSnowman: Mar 7 2007, 06:21 PM
Post by: -Gadget- on March 07, 2007, 11:38:00 AM
why not all on f ?? as long as ya format with 32k cluster should be ok...
be much better too bad enough having to split it bewteenb e and f, let alonf
e, f and g !
or is there an actual reason not to have it in this tyrpe of sturcture ? or just personal preferance ..
MIck ..
Post by: Movax on March 07, 2007, 11:59:00 AM
Post by: snoopy22 on March 07, 2007, 01:03:00 PM
Post by: FrostyTheSnowman on March 07, 2007, 01:11:00 PM
QUOTE(snoopy22 @ Mar 7 2007, 01:34 PM)
Does this method works on a v1.0 xbox ???
It works on all versions, as long as you are using either a .67 softmod or a .67 BIOS. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)
Post by: -Gadget- on March 07, 2007, 03:27:00 PM
presumable the 512GB limit per partition is a FATX restriction .. ?
Mick ...
Post by: bearcreek on March 07, 2007, 03:11:00 PM
Where is it explained about the bios suffixes(.67, .137, etc).
I should mention that I am using a modchip and not softmodded.
This post has been edited by bearcreek: Mar 7 2007, 11:15 PM
Post by: FrostyTheSnowman on March 07, 2007, 03:46:00 PM
QUOTE(bearcreek @ Mar 7 2007, 04:11 PM)
I am running bios 5035.137 and I split the difference between F and G. Both were formated in 32k clusters. So I should be able to flash the bios with 5035.67 and get the rest of the hd?
Where is it explained about the bios suffixes(.67, .137, etc).
I should mention that I am using a modchip and not softmodded.
Where is it explained about the bios suffixes(.67, .137, etc).
I should mention that I am using a modchip and not softmodded.
I have never heard of .137 before... but .67 means F & G drives (required for 750 GB hard drives) and .06 means F drive only. (512 GB maximum on .06 BIOSes.)
You will need to flash 5035.67 for your 750 GB hard drive to work, and once it is flashed, just follow my guide to format the drive and you should be set.
QUOTE(-Gadget- @ Mar 7 2007, 03:58 PM)
arr that explains it !
presumable the 512GB limit per partition is a FATX restriction .. ?
Mick ...
presumable the 512GB limit per partition is a FATX restriction .. ?
Mick ...
Yep, 512 GB is the absolute maximum for FATX partitions at the moment. Technically you could do 1 TB on FATX partitions if you formatted the partition with 64k clusters, but there is currently no way to do that.
This post has been edited by FrostyTheSnowman: Mar 7 2007, 11:59 PM
Post by: bearcreek on March 07, 2007, 06:50:00 PM
You have 100% gotten past the data corrupt point?
Just looked around the usual spot and could not find any of the bios that I listed above, so I dont know what to think. I guess I will try the 4981.67 first without the reformat. I have been backing up my info for about 2 weeks on and off, I am running out of places to put it, this is why I hate to reformat.
The bios chart on the home page needs to be updated or is there another site that compares all bios and their atributes?
This post has been edited by bearcreek: Mar 8 2007, 02:52 AM
Post by: Movax on March 07, 2007, 08:15:00 PM
Post by: bearcreek on March 07, 2007, 09:28:00 PM
Been doing some reading and 5035 does not support splitting F and G, it supports F to 137g and G gets the rest.
This explains why poopiemagee only has 650g. The actual size of the hard drive is 732g due to 1024m=1g, a loss of 18g. Now if he formated F to 137g and G gets the rest, G can only hold 512g because that is the highest you can go formated in 32k clusters.
Post by: bearcreek on March 07, 2007, 09:57:00 PM
I believe I am wrong about the 5035 not supporting the splitting of F and G, UnleashX shows 116g free for F and 106g free for G. I have around 250g on F with no corruption problems.
Post by: Movax on March 08, 2007, 07:41:00 AM
Post by: FrostyTheSnowman on March 08, 2007, 10:51:00 AM
This post has been edited by FrostyTheSnowman: Mar 8 2007, 06:52 PM
Post by: snoopy22 on March 09, 2007, 07:15:00 PM
I got a rar file named Krayzie_SC-NTSC_Ndure_Installer_v1.1.rar is that the good one ?
Post by: snoopy22 on March 09, 2007, 07:35:00 PM
Post by: snoopy22 on March 10, 2007, 04:43:00 PM
Post by: Simba7 on March 10, 2007, 06:15:00 PM
C: 500Mb
E: 4096Mb
F: 237016Mb (16k Clusters)
G: 524288Mb (32k Clusters)
X: 700Mb
Y: 700Mb
Z: 700Mb
With a 750Gb HDD?
Post by: Movax on March 10, 2007, 07:55:00 PM
QUOTE(FrostyTheSnowman @ Mar 7 2007, 05:46 PM)
Yep, 512 GB is the absolute maximum for FATX partitions at the moment.
Post by: snoopy22 on March 11, 2007, 06:00:00 PM
Post by: FrostyTheSnowman on March 11, 2007, 05:35:00 PM
You could also custom-make your own softmod (like I do), but that gets a little more complicated...
This post has been edited by FrostyTheSnowman: Mar 12 2007, 12:35 AM
Post by: snoopy22 on March 12, 2007, 04:36:00 PM
Or have i just misread and its basically the same procedure ??
Post by: poopiemagee on March 12, 2007, 09:06:00 PM
By the way, if you haven't played Aliens vs Predator (the strategy game) for xbox...it's awesome if you like Command and Conquer (real time strategy games)
Post by: cavinkeven on March 18, 2007, 02:48:00 AM
Post by: bearcreek on March 19, 2007, 12:44:00 PM
I am not sure but I think I saw where the sata to IDE will work, you should do a search to be sure.
As far as the bios, I use a modchip and I do not know how you softmodded your xbox. I would say you will have to get a bios that will recognize the large drive and large partitions.
Post by: cavinkeven on March 30, 2007, 03:05:00 PM
Post by: cavinkeven on March 30, 2007, 04:15:00 PM
Post by: FrostyTheSnowman on March 30, 2007, 04:19:00 PM
QUOTE(cavinkeven @ Mar 30 2007, 03:46 PM) 
Ok it will play some backup games I just discovered. alot of them freeze when loading a saved game. a few wont boot up at all and some will play fine. before, on my old softmod everything played fine. Thanks
Have you tried clearing your /E/CACHE folder, and X, Y, and Z drives?
Post by: cavinkeven on March 30, 2007, 08:36:00 PM
Post by: FrostyTheSnowman on March 30, 2007, 10:47:00 PM
1. Yes, just FTP into your XBOX and clear all the files in your /E/CACHE folder, and also clear all the files in your X, Y, and Z drives. (This is necessary to do when you change the hard drive in your XBOX, otherwise games will have loading problems, or freeze.)
2. Yes, your drives look perfect in Evox.
I'm willing to bet that the only reason that your 'G' drive doesn't show up in XBMC is probably just because the 'G' drive is not enabled in XBMC.3. The 'Q' drive in XBMC is a 'virtual drive' in XBMC, that is basically just pointing to the XBMC directory on your hard drive. Go ahead and take a look in your 'Q' drive, you will see that it just contains your XBMC files.
4. You would not have been able to get as far as you already have without the .67 version, so i'm willing to bet that you already have the .67 version installed.
I hope this helps clear up things for ya.
Post by: cavinkeven on March 31, 2007, 09:31:00 AM
Post by: rod8199 on March 31, 2007, 10:27:00 AM
BTW: The chip will be an x3 if that helps.
Post by: cavinkeven on March 31, 2007, 01:27:00 PM