Xbox Reads New 60 Gig As Only A 48gig Drive...y?, New H/D Question Options

[1zzy]

I pulled my stock W/D hard drive last night and replaced it with a 60 Gig W/D hard drive. I used Slayers 2.1 to rebuild the new drive. All is fine in Xbox land as everything works, even copied some games onto the harddrive so I could return the cd's to my buddy and I could still play them at the same time.

My question is that when I go into the System Settings area, my Xbox only reads my 60 Gig as a 48 Gig....of course this is before I copied the games over. I only had the Slayer's 2.1 installed and I doubt that took up some 12 Gigs of space.

So where did the other 12 Gigs go?

[TykSak]

Is it your F drive thats "only" 48Gb coz you know the other drives take up space to.

[hawgman]

thats about right my 80 gig gives me like 69 gig of free space on F. but you also have 5 gigs on E. i have 2 games on e also you have to edit you ini so it will add the games from the 3 drive to your launch menu.

[1zzy]

I'll look tonight at the size of each partition.

What I did was:

I took a new 60 gig drive, put it in, used Slayers 2.1 to format and install Evox. Before I did anything else at all, the setting told me I has a 48 gig h/d in my Xbox. It was after that when I put the games on it. With the games on I still have 42 gigs of free space but the total size still reads only 48 instead of a 60 gig drive.

I assumed it was giving me a reading of all the partitions added together.

This post has been edited by 1zzy: May 22 2003, 05:48 PM

[sorienor]

First of all, a 60 gig hard drive is not 60 gigs to the xbox

HD gb=1,000,000,000 bytes

Computer gb=1,073,741,824

So you only get 55.8 gb

~500mb for c
~5gb for e

so your just about right

[coleraine]

I have the same problem 60gb only gives me 5gb on E and 25gb on F,where is the rest of the 60gb.i did HDPREPARE FULL on my PC and then formated each partition 1-6.
I only get 25gb plus 5gb plus say 800mb on the other 4 partitions,thats only 33gb in total.

Help me please