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GimmeTokens

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Lba48 Warning
« on: February 24, 2004, 03:18:00 AM »
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For those moving from a non-LBA48 BIOS, if your drive is greater than 137GB and you already have a partition 6 which goes up to the 137GB barrier then choosing the partitioning option "Partition 6 Takes Rest of the Drive" will result in data corruption when the drive is written to. You'll need to reformat the drive if you want to resize your partition 6 to use all available space.


I have a 250 hd in my xbox it was already setup and then i got a new box and a new chip and i want to flash it with 4981.67 bios but i wanted to customize it more before loading it so i used xbtool and there was that warning listed above if i already had a partition 6 and 7 will this work or will i get a corrupt hd?

Thanks alot
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SKllZ

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« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2004, 03:43:00 AM »
I have a 250GB WD with X2 4981.06 and I use all my space on the F drive and I have almost 60 games on the hard drive and still I have had no problems with files becoming corrupted the hard drive is almost full no. I just guess I’m one of the lucky ones! :unsure:
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ub312g0d

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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2004, 04:05:00 AM »
you'll be fine, just make sure that you ALWAYS use the .67 bios, if you used the F drive only bios then it would corrupt, but you'll be good with the .67.
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« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2004, 05:42:00 AM »
if your drive is 200gb or less then use .06. You'll have no problems. The only reports of corruption have occurred with very large drives (250gb+), so then you would use .67 for those large drives to avoid any problems. Unless you're extremely paranoid it is safe to follow this system.
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« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2004, 07:13:00 PM »
has anyone using a .67 bios on a 250gig drive using only a F partition reported curruption?

I was planing on going with 3 250 gig drives?

Should i go with 4 200 gig instead?

Thanks,
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polyesterjones

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« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2004, 07:25:00 PM »
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I was planing on going with 3 250 gig drives?

Should i go with 4 200 gig instead?


Good God man, that's a lot of storage space.  Since you're close, you might as well bump it up to a terabyte.

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« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2004, 07:31:00 PM »
In time i will... But the thing is should i use 200 gig drives or 250 gig drives?

.06 bios or .67 bios.

DOn't want any curruption!

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polyesterjones

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« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2004, 07:50:00 PM »
I would personally use a load of 200 GB drives with the .06 bios.  Better safe than sorry.  Besides, 200 GB drives are usually cheaper.
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sprkthead2

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« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2004, 08:00:00 PM »
QUOTE (GimmeTokens @ Feb 24 2004, 08:12 AM)
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For those moving from a non-LBA48 BIOS, if your drive is greater than 137GB and you already have a partition 6 which goes up to the 137GB barrier then choosing the partitioning option "Partition 6 Takes Rest of the Drive" will result in data corruption when the drive is written to. You'll need to reformat the drive if you want to resize your partition 6 to use all available space.


I have a 250 hd in my xbox it was already setup and then i got a new box and a new chip and i want to flash it with 4981.67 bios but i wanted to customize it more before loading it so i used xbtool and there was that warning listed above if i already had a partition 6 and 7 will this work or will i get a corrupt hd?

Thanks alot

Data corruption occurs on drives that are > 275 gigs, so you should be safe with 250 for f drive.  If the drive is 300 gigs or more choose f drive to  137 g drives takes the rest.
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Trevante

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« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2004, 08:16:00 PM »
275? i heard that it was 256.....

and this thread is in the wrong board...

This post has been edited by Trevante: Feb 25 2004, 04:18 AM
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aweirdguy

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« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2004, 09:34:00 PM »
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For those moving from a non-LBA48 BIOS, if your drive is greater than 137GB and you already have a partition 6 which goes up to the 137GB barrier then choosing the partitioning option "Partition 6 Takes Rest of the Drive" will result in data corruption when the drive is written to. You'll need to reformat the drive if you want to resize your partition 6 to use all available space.



I have a 250 hd in my xbox it was already setup and then i got a new box and a new chip and i want to flash it with 4981.67 bios but i wanted to customize it more before loading it so i used xbtool and there was that warning listed above if i already had a partition 6 and 7 will this work or will i get a corrupt hd?



What's important here, is that you have already been using this 250 drive and it is already partitioned. In your old box, did you have a huge F drive(.06 bios), or an F and a G drive(.67 bios)? You should flash your new chip with the same setting as the old box so that the box finds your existing partitions correctly. (unless you were planning on reformatting all your data away.... )

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