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Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: ZildjianKX on August 11, 2002, 02:36:00 PM
Which hard drive do you have?  I have heard people having 25 games on them and it being fine....
Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: AC Slater on August 11, 2002, 04:43:00 PM
I have a 120 GB drive with a little over 85 GB free and don't have any problems with games crashing.  I don't have Odd World so I can't say anything about that one but none of mine have crashed yet.  Here is a list of the games I have on the box:

Halo
DOA3
NCAA 2003
Genma Onimusha
Fifa soccer
World Series Baseball
Air Force Delta
Crazy Taxi 3

Quake 2

Genesis Roms and Emulator
NES Roms and Emulator
Snes Roms and Emulator

Seasons 1 and 2 of SouthPark on divx
Van Wilder screener
Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: anemicfrog on August 11, 2002, 09:59:00 PM
I have a smaller one a 30gig samsung for the moment , 9 games on it and the only game i have sometimes problems is World Series 2003, sometimes the game freeze, but i had the same problem playing this game with the original CD. blink.gif
Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: b16mcc on August 12, 2002, 08:03:00 AM
I'm not sure of exact numbers, but I have at least 25 games on my 120gb hdd and it still has about 65gb free, I will continue to fill it .

My xbox has never crashed, sneezed or hicupped since I flashed the onboard with Evo X 2.2 and added the 120gb hdd.

Its perfect.
Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: b16mcc on August 12, 2002, 08:05:00 AM
What about putting the hdd back in your pc and defragging it with Norton for instance.

If possible, then this would speed up access times and reduce the possibilty of crashes that some people are obviously seeing.
Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: telo{+} on August 12, 2002, 12:28:00 PM
Hey Negative-Nancy

This has been discussed b4, it has NOTHING to do with your hdd.

Try truncating the names of the directories you made, i hear jolliet works SOMTIMES... but i would really trust it, rename the files/dirs that YOU made to at least Bridged (8+3)

ie:  

C:/games/Max Payne A Super Dooper Kick Ass Game/WOOOOO/...
to
C:/games/MaxPayne/

And please dont go spouting of garbage like "120gig drive R Shit" cause i know alot of people have filled em up with more then 10 games w/o any problems...
Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: public_enema on August 12, 2002, 01:08:00 PM
Yeh it kind of makes sense, since the games aren't gonna be stored sequentially.

When you delete a game, it isn't really deleted - but rather the pointer changes location.

So you can have a 120gb HD with only one game on it, but it will run like a full one if it was once full before, then the games deleted but the drive never defragged.

I'm still gonna buy one though.
I guess I won't be deleting anything then.
Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: b16mcc on August 12, 2002, 02:09:00 PM
Has anyone actually tried defragging it in the pc ?

Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: 123456 on August 12, 2002, 09:33:00 PM
RULES

For Legal reasons we do NOT allow links to the EvolutionX software or EvolutionX BIOS. So don't post it & don't request it!
Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: HELLTICK on August 13, 2002, 05:12:00 PM
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Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: warbeast on August 13, 2002, 06:51:00 PM
cheers ill get a hdd fan to c if it helps also i moved odd world to pc and burned as iso wont boot anything a could try i just get a black screen also happed with moto i got a dirty disk error? i am useing dvdr/rw with full erase done
Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: Speedo on August 14, 2002, 05:20:00 AM
Yeah...

if you do the "cable trick" and install the HDD driver you should be able to read from the disk. And defrag could work.

Ohh.. and a disc cant crash coz you put a game into it. When discs crashes its because of mechanical problems. But most likely that the disk was bad from the start if its a new drive.


/Speedo
Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: jpresto on August 29, 2002, 11:48:00 PM
Has anyone resolved this problem?  I have a WD 120 gig 5400 rpm installed, top is off the unit.  Crashes (actually hangs) but can recover by ejecting cd tray.  Been playing with it for about 2 hours, happened 3 times.  About 80 gigs free.

I may try a new drive cable, perhaps a new drive as well..

j
Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: cONEction on August 30, 2002, 03:39:00 AM
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Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: cONEction on August 30, 2002, 04:25:00 AM
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Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: cONEction on August 30, 2002, 07:28:00 AM
QUOTE (alfaromeo303 @ Aug 30 2002, 02:21 PM)
QUOTE (warbeast @ Aug 11 2002, 07:39 PM)
GOT EVOLUTIONX 2.2
120g hdd
mame
divx
dvd-x video
video mode

so i staeted to fill up hdd with games
got to 10 games now they crash
u see the more games u put on hdd the harder it is for hdd to read them
u might be able to get 60 games on hdd but some like odd world will start to crash

One thing what could be the problem is that the harddrive needs too much power from the powersupply, and that the powersupply can't deliver enough power to the hdd, then it's possible that you receive such strange things.

bullshit , i dont think that causes the problem , cause if that would be the problem, your xbox wont even boot blink.gif  rolleyes.gif
Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: Bob Marley on August 30, 2002, 08:38:00 AM
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Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: Demon on August 30, 2002, 09:00:00 AM
QUOTE (cONEction @ Aug 30 2002, 09:28 AM)
QUOTE
One thing what could be the problem is that the harddrive needs too much power from the powersupply, and that the powersupply can't deliver enough power to the hdd, then it's possible that you receive such strange things.

bullshit , i dont think that causes the problem , cause if that would be the problem, your xbox wont even boot blink.gif  rolleyes.gif

Actually, it could be the problem.  A flkey power supply can cause lots of freaky unknown problems.  I had a HD that worked fine until I put a heavy load on it.  Swapped the power suppy with a newer, better one and everything was fine.

It may have a "burst" mode or something that kicks in and requires more power.  The XBox power supply isn't really the best.  Anyone tried modding in a good 300-400 watt Power supply?  Might crank the heat up, though..

:d:
Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: jpresto on August 30, 2002, 08:06:00 PM
with the case on, i was able to ftp about 60 gigs without any problems.  I had two lockups during 1.5 hrs of gameplay..

I *think* this is better than I've seen, but still inconclusive.  I actually have a fan attachment coming from Lik-Sang, we'll see how that works.  May mess with some different cables while I'm at it..

j
Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: Flowzarus on August 31, 2002, 01:35:00 PM
It is a flakey error, I have about 10 games on my 120GB 5400RPM drive and I could be playing it for hours or for minutes and 9 games work flawlessly and Dead to Rights always crashes.  Definetly flakey and not heat or power supply related.  Maybe a file gets minorly f'ed in the transferring.
Title: 120g Hard Drives R Shit
Post by: M3_DeL on August 31, 2002, 02:11:00 PM
has anyone tried the new tutorial about modding the box to allow the HD to work out side of the box???? if you put the HD in a cooled HD case and had it outside of the box, wouldn't that eliminate any issues with heat (if it were an issue) that might be causing this?

-M3