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> Gain Additional Gb's Without Losing Data, For Converting to LBA48 with > 137GB
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post Jan 3 2004, 06:54 PM
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Caution: You must backup your entire HDD in case something goes wrong. I can not stress this enough!!

Scenario:
You've got a hard drive installed on your Xbox that has more than 137GB and you want to gain the extra HDD space without losing all of your data by completely reformatting the entire drive.

Flash:
You need to have a BIOS flashed with the LBA48 patch and it must be set for "Partition 6 Takes up to 137GB / Partition 7 Takes Rest".

Format:
For Evox, set "UseGDrive = Yes" and place the following at the bottom of the menu portion in your evox.ini file:
CODE
Section "Install Menu"
{
Item "Install G Drive",@210
Item "Reboot",ID_Quick_Reboot
Item "Power Off",ID_Power_Off
}

[Action_10]
Info "Format G"
Warning "This will format your G drive"
Warning "Have a Backup!"
Progress "Formatting drive"

Format g:

Reboot:
Reboot and choose the menu and install the G drive. When it is finished, you need to enable the G drive in you evox.ini file.

This idea (I changed a little) was taken from http://teamxecuter.com/modules.php?name=Fo...iewtopic&t=7307

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post Jan 3 2004, 07:00 PM
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Additional reading - oz_paulb's LBA48 topic:
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?act...ST&f=41&t=97997

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post Jan 3 2004, 07:03 PM
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Success story number 1:

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thanks burrito! You were right. I added the lines you had and now I have access to the other 23gb of drive space. I had only formatted the first 137 gigs and hadn't checked the space until after getting my new hdd all set up and ripping games to it. It works perectly now. Thanks everyone!!
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post Jan 9 2004, 04:18 PM
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This is a no brainer. Of course it works. Anyone who's edited evox.ini to ONLY flash f: for the 10GB stock HDD's would know that this is how you format G with the new bios.
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post Jan 24 2004, 07:14 PM
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Hey u guys seem to know what your talking about,so i was wandering if you could help me .
I have just upgraded my hard drive to a seagate 60gb,everything went ok,but it does not give me a total of 60 gb free space,it looks like this

C DRIVE HAS 300MB
E DRIVE HAS 5GB
F DRIVE HAS 25GB
AND THE REST HAVE 767MB

MY QUESTION IS WITH DID I NOT GET THE FULL 60Gb
Please help.
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post Jan 26 2004, 03:20 AM
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coleraine, have you put anything on F?
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post Jan 26 2004, 06:24 PM
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QUOTE (coleraine - PM sent Jan 26 2004 @ 01:37 PM)
no i have not put anything on F: drive

Consider backing up all your data and reformatting...
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post Jan 29 2004, 09:38 AM
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ive tried the above without any success. I have C,D,E,F,X,Y,Z - no damn G drive grr.gif

ive got a 300GB Maxtor
X2Lite Chip
Bios which supports partition 7
i have an old dash 1.8.3752 - could this be the reason it doesnt work, i was under the impression that as long as you have a bios that supports it then it would work - obviously not.

please help. Cheers


Sorted it out now...dashboard update. cool.gif

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post Jan 29 2004, 03:36 PM
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Sounds like you may not have the G drive enabled in your dash... Edit the config file for this...
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post Jan 29 2004, 04:10 PM
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There is no option in 3752 for G drive; you need to upgrade.
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post Feb 2 2004, 12:43 AM
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when i go to click on install g drive, it gives me this message:

Error in action number
Action: 10

then it gives me a yes or no option, what should i do?

here is my menu section of the evox.ini file

[Menu]

Section "Root"
{
Item "Play Game from DVDROM Drive",ID_Launch_DVD
Section "Play Games from HD"
{
Line "- Games on the Hard Drive -",2
Line " "
AutoAddItem "E:\GAMES\"
AutoAddItem "E:\HDDLoader\"
AutoAddItem "f:\GAMES\"
AutoAddItem "f:\HDDLoader\"
SortAll
}
Item "Game Trainers",ID_trainer
Item "DVD MOVIE Player - Region Free","f:\Apps\DVDX\default.xbe"
Section "Emulators"
{
Line "- Emulators on Hard Drive -",2
Line " "
AutoAddItem "f:\Apps\Emulators\"
SortAll
}
Item "Xbox Media Player - XBMP","f:\Apps\XBMP\default.xbe"
Section "System Management"
{
Item "Game Management on Xbox HD","f:\Apps\HDDLoader\default.xbe"
Item "Game and Media Backup Tool","f:\Apps\dvd2xbox\default.xbe"
Item "Choose a Different Skin",ID_Skins
Item "Flash Bios",ID_Flash_Bios
Section "Launch Apps from HD"
{
Line "- Media and File Managers -",2
Line " "
Item "Dvd2Xbox Media Copier","f:\Apps\Dvd2Xbox\default.xbe"
Item "PxHDD Loader","f:\Apps\HDDLoader\default.xbe"
Item "Xbox File Explorer","f:\Apps\boXplorer\default.xbe"
Line " "
Line "- Auto Added Items -",2
Line " "
SortStart
AutoAddItem "e:\Apps\"
AutoAddItem "f:\Apps\"
SortEnd
Line " "
Line "Asst. Games"
Line " "
SortStart
AutoAddItem "f:\Games\"
AutoAddItem "e:\Games\"
SortEnd
}
Item "M$ Dashboard",ID_MS_Dash
Item "System Settings",ID_Settings
}
Item "Reboot Xbox",ID_Quick_Reboot
Item "Power OFF Xbox",ID_Power_Off
Section "Install Menu"
{
Item "Install G Drive",@210
Item "Reboot",ID_Quick_Reboot
Item "Power Off",ID_Power_Off
}

[Action_10]
Info "Format G"
Warning "This will format your G drive"
Warning "Make sure you have a backup of your entire disk"
Progress "Formatting drives"

ConfigSector "backupdisk.bin"
Format g:
}

[Action_10]


[Action_11]


[Action_12]

LogFile = "f:\unlock.log"
Info "This function will unlock your XBOX Harddisk"
Warning "You will now unlock your XBOX harddisk and will not be able"
Warning "to boot from an original XBOX bios"
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We didn't need the whole ini file but thanks...

Remove these lines:
CODE

[Action_10]


[Action_11]


[Action_12]

LogFile = "f:\unlock.log"
Info "This function will unlock your XBOX Harddisk"
Warning "You will now unlock your XBOX harddisk and will not be able"
Warning "to boot from an original XBOX bios"
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post Feb 2 2004, 12:56 AM
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i removed exactly what you told me but it still gives me the same error message, could it be because my hdd is locked?
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No, thats not it...

In this:
CODE
ConfigSector "backupdisk.bin"
Format g:
}
remove the last }

Forgot to add that before...
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post Feb 2 2004, 01:15 AM
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thanks for your help, i now have about 60 more gigs of space i can use
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