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Title: 250gb Hd F Drive Odd
Post by: J_B on December 07, 2004, 10:45:00 PM

F drive only reports approximately 220gb total, but free space is only ~120gb. As I continue to fill the drive, the correct amount of space being used is reported as used.

Xbox has the M8+ bios set to partition 6 takes rest of drive and LBA48. Xenium ICE mod chip with 2.0.1 OS. 1.6 version xbox.

So am I missing soemthing here? Could the drive be corrupted?

Thanks for any points in the wight direction,
JB

Title: 250gb Hd F Drive Odd
Post by: J_B on December 08, 2004, 11:18:00 AM

Anyone seen this before? Only abotu 1/2 the F is usable.

Title: 250gb Hd F Drive Odd
Post by: rtheil on December 08, 2004, 11:57:00 AM

I didn't think the partitions could be larger than 120GB anyway. I have a 250 in mine, and I have a 120GB F and a 120GB G. But mine correctly reports both size and free space.

Title: 250gb Hd F Drive Odd
Post by: Wiggin78 on December 08, 2004, 12:23:00 PM

I'm having the same problem. I posted a few minutes ago but haven't heard anything. config magic also won't read the xbox version so I can't lock the drive.

Title: 250gb Hd F Drive Odd
Post by: PollardHimself on December 08, 2004, 12:58:00 PM

did you use a bios the supports large hd xbtool has the support its called lba48

Title: 250gb Hd F Drive Odd
Post by: J_B on December 08, 2004, 03:14:00 PM

Yes. I am using M8+ with LBA 48 support and configed for Partition 6 takes rest of drive. I did this with Evtool.

Thanks,
JB

Title: 250gb Hd F Drive Odd
Post by: Justin_Case on December 08, 2004, 05:02:00 PM

did you lock the harddrive to the xbox?

Title: 250gb Hd F Drive Odd
Post by: J_B on December 08, 2004, 06:48:00 PM

Good iea, but it is locked. Maybe unlock it?

Title: 250gb Hd F Drive Odd
Post by: tagler on December 08, 2004, 06:52:00 PM

i have a partition that is 144 gb, so they can be this big at least

Title: 250gb Hd F Drive Odd
Post by: lordvader129 on December 08, 2004, 06:58:00 PM

i have a 250gb with all on F, free space reported accurately

its possible its your dashbaord

Title: 250gb Hd F Drive Odd
Post by: J_B on December 08, 2004, 11:28:00 PM

I certianly have not ruled that out. What dash are you using? I'm on the latest EvoX./

Thanks,
JB

Title: 250gb Hd F Drive Odd
Post by: FallsInc on December 08, 2004, 11:44:00 PM

the f drive must be formatted properly (IE while using lba48 bios.. double check the bios too)... use slayers and format the f drive, but i'd recommend the whole thing just for posterity

Title: 250gb Hd F Drive Odd
Post by: J_B on December 09, 2004, 01:38:00 PM

I'll give that a try and get back - as soon as I can backup what's on F!

JB

Title: 250gb Hd F Drive Odd
Post by: J_B on December 10, 2004, 09:14:00 AM

That worked... I just reinstalled the whole box.

Here's where I think the problems started - I used the Xenium ICE OS to prepare the drive. The OS must not support LBA48, so you need to use Slayer's with the M8+ and LBA48 hack (on a 1.6.)


JB