[This is a copy/paste from another board, so please excuse me if something doesn't make sense or out of context]

This app is pretty self explanatory -- created by me from ground-up, and has been in development for a while now. To use, connect your drive (if using a drive), press File>Open>Open Drive Selector>Select your drive. If you're not using a drive, load your file by going to File>Open>Open Dump.

Features so far...

• Backing up of drive
• Extracting files
• Reading files
• Reading backups/files that are a single FATX partition (such as the xlaunch.fdf file found in devkats)
• USB support added 1/13/2010

Future updates...

• Adding support for memory units
• Backing up security sector, josh sector -- Done.
• Writing to individual sectors/clusters
• Reading fromm individual sectors/clusters
• STFS implimentation (so you can see the game name/file name of an STFS package) -- Done.
• Maybe undeletion... -- Done.
• Anything else that people would want
• Package creation

One known issue I want to address is when extracting multiple files from a hard disk, it will throw an error about the handle not supporting asynchronous operations, etc. -- working on that.

Instead of keeping this closed-source, and having licensing and all that junk, I've decided I'll just make it open-source. I figured it would be too annoying for Cheater912 for me to ask him every time I need to update for him to obfuscate the executable, and then to have to create a licensing system would be annoying as hell.

Quick note if you peek at the source code...
The code in just about every single one of the forms is really messy. Please excuse that. Also, if you use the dev build, you're doing so at your own risk... I wrote a lot of the code in the writing quickly, and have barely tested any of it. So if you're using a hard drive, or anything else you don't want to get messed up on accident, please use enable beta mode by changing the bool at line 16 of the main form to true.

Screenshots:





Source:
http://clkxu5.com/drivexplore/src/fatx.zip

EXE (will auto-update):
http://clkxu5.com/drivexplore/Party%20Buff...%20Explorer.exe

If you want to donate, do so hurr (I'm not trying to be one of those guys who's like you donate or else I'll stop developing, I'm just sayin, it'd be cool if you did): https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_...gif%3aNonHosted

meh?

win xp /250gb xbox drive

This is real nice, good that it can read the USB drives, good for uncourrpting profiles and moving between consoles.

same as what i see

xp 64 / 2gb usb stick

Shuts down on my computer before it can even open up the drive.

I'll look in to that here in a second -- see what the problem is. Probably a quick fix... Would either of you feel like letting me on your TeamViewer to check out the problem for myself though?

@MoonTar
Make sure you're running as admin.

Thanks.

Is there a reason that it is trying to connect to the internet? does it check home for updates? I blocked access to the net for it since there is no reason.

Will it be possible " in the future " to add to a memory card or usb drive being used as a memory card. with this program?

I have been trying to add the media update to my usb drive, formated by my xbox 360 so I did not have to swap my internal hard drive between my 2 jtaged xbox 360's to watch movies. 1 xbox 360 is in a bedroom and the other is in the living room.

Yep, that's correct.

Finally a program that just works with my 250gb

I kept getting an error when trying to extract the compatibility folder.
I could extract each item individually and rebuild the directories manually, but if I selected the main folder and hit extract I got "fuck, error" lol

Also, I backed up my whole drive. Does anyone know if I can manually delete HD installed games? I don't need them wasting precious space on my PC. For example, I only have one right now, Halo: Reach

I located it (by the size) in:
\Data\Content\0000000000000000\4D53085B\00004000\D5F8036CA497AFADC59687E1566C10D3.data
The files are Data000 through Data0041
Do I delete the whole folder? Just those Files? More folders?

Just wondering. Would rather not have to delete them, backup, then reinstall.

Thanks!

Yeah, that error message is one of the things I forgot to change for the beta... As for the error you got, I'm guessing before it said that, it gave you a different message? If so, I'm working on that guy -- more of an annoying bug because it has to do with the Win32 API.

Edit: Oh yeah, and as for the HDD installed games, you can just delete those files. Games install as Dataxxx



What exactly do you mean? Writing to the drives? That's disabled for now since I haven't tested much of my writing stuff, and I'd rather mess up my own drive than someone else's. So until I'm sure it's 100% stable, it's disabled.

I thought it would let me image my usb stick but the option is greyed out guess ill stick with usb image tool
Thanks any-ways appreciate the work and new software is always nice ..

Dataxxx
What exactly do you mean? Writing to the drives? That's disabled for now since I haven't tested much of my writing stuff, and I'd rather mess up my own drive than someone else's. So until I'm sure it's 100% stable, it's disabled.
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Sorry for the confusion.. I was asking if the program will be able to write to a xbox 360 formated usb drive.. When i use the transfer data on the xbox 360 it will not let me transfer the optional media update to the usb drive..

I tried to make a content folder on my usb drive and just copy the media update to the drive, It did not work. and when I hook up the usb drive to my computer it has a folder named XBOX and the files in that folder are named " DATA001 " and so on. like the files on the partition is a differant format than the internal hard drive.

Iam glad to here that when and if you are able to get the writing to drive 100% you will release it.

Thanks! As for the imaging, I figured it'd be redundant since the partitions are already in files.



Ah, yeah I should have the writing features fully done and tested in the next week or two. Sounds a little long, but I've got school and some other reading-related bugs to fix first

It crashed it win7 64bit using 20gig on M$ USB cable. (On Opening device)

Any fix for that (yet?)



Brgds/Dan

Someone else messaged me with the same problem. If you don't run it as administrator it will do that, so I'm guessing that could be the issue.

Ah cheers, (Sorry I didn't search better)

If you don't hear from me again on this issue , then it will be confirmed (As the issue :-)


Brgds/Dan


NiceApp BTW Did you use the X360 dll's ???

Haha, alright, and not your fault. I didn't post anything else in it in page 1, and I forgot to state so as well in the OP. And nope, I did not use X360 dll's -- coded this entirely myself

Edit: I just pushed out version 1.0.0.4 -- here is the changelog:


If you didn't get the auto-update for whatever reason, you can download it here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VD1Y6EKD

(Mirror)
http://www.mediafire.com/?70f0iagx4qf4mhf

was that my ghetto fix with the 0x1000 hole?

have not gotten a chance to test this yet but so far it looks good, nice to see a new app since xplorer360 seems to be dead and I had a hell of a time trying to find a dl link to restore my partition 2 after I upgraded to a 250GB HD

Yes, unfortunately... You were right about that -- that was the cause of some problems.

Can you add a feature to format the flash drive and make it xbox 360 compatible without the data loss check?

Like this? ;p
But they do the performance check for good reasons. Bypassing it may not be the best idea.

Anyways, nice app, CLK. Fun to have some competition. ;p

Ditto! I didn't know your app had that feature.
@Hyperfire
Personally, I don't know much about the security sector, so most likely not. People seem to be satisfied with HDDHackr as well.

By the way which app is that? I've been trying to find it.

That is a part of FATXplorer.
Please note that the mini-tool pictured is NOT in the current 1.2 version. It will be in the upcoming 2.0 release.

I have 6 OCZ 16gb flash drives. Only 1 seems to work with xbox 360 as a memory unit. Rest fail the data loss test. Is there any way i can clone the working drive as a memory unit for the rest of the drives?

Well since you have one working one, you should be able to just copy the Xbox360 folder in the root of the working USB onto one that doesn't work.

Let me know if that works.

just tried that but it wont detect on the xbox 360 as a memory unit.

also tried usb image tool and that didnt work also.

is there some security sector or something that didnt copy over?

Could it be possible to modify USB-drive(some info sector?) so that you could use more than 16GB?

I'm hoping CLK Rebellion and Eatonz can help figure out how to make all flash drive compatible. There has to be a specific thing that 360 format is doing because even the clone apps aren't working to make 2 flash drives identical.

Sounds like write-leveling, Might not be a good idea if that's the case. OR It could be the controller/FW in which case you may have other probs. Pls post ur results if u decide to try it as I often get asked about adding SSD's to JTAG's.


CLK: Thanx for the quick update etc.. IT WORKS GREAT!! (Using the 'official' USB adapter- I havent had time to try SATA yet but I will shortly w/a slim drive)

I have always wanted two features out of an XDFS manager:
(1) Ecc/DIR Check (ie; Disck-Check feature) AND/OR
(2) Disc defragmenter

The guy who did 360 drive commander was working on the above but I think maybe his interest now lies elsewhere....?...?...?


EDIT: I was also wondering why I can't delete (In right-click context menu) - I wanted to delete from systemupdate dir (a dash update)


Brgds/Dan

The weird thing is all of my ocz 16gb flash drives appear to have similar speeds in read/write performance but only 1 ocz drive works. My kingston 4gb data traveler is much slower but works with 360 perfectly. Thats why i'm interested in what we can do to fix it through pc route.

When you attempt to format the USB, what is the exact message you get on the dash?

If you copy the files, you're copying everything.

I get something like Failed Data Loss Test.

One more thing I wanted to add is that i've formatted these drives through various software. I tried to set the 16gb drive to 7gb xbox storage through the dash and one time I was able to make it work. Not after that one time though...

Good job clk.

Why thank you sir.

I just coded up a function for getting the STFS name/general info (still have to work on images, as they're not in the same buffer as everything else), but I need to figure out a good way of getting it for folders... I was thinking I could load up the subfolders/files and grab the game name from one of the files, but that would slow things down a little bit, yet it may be the only solution. It's already sort of slow getting names for folders with a lot of files (for instance the cache folder), as it checks the header of each file to see if it's a valid STFS package, and if it is it loads all of the info at once and caches it. -- Lied about that. I just put in a filesize check to make sure it's got the minimum package size before doing anything, and loads the cache folder almost like normal.



Also, I made it so that the app requests to be run as administrator upon startup (would make it so that if people don't run as admin, it doesn't crash on them when going to the drive selector), so expect that in the next update as well. (This is my little way of procrastinating from doing anything writing-related, although all of it should work already -- just haven't tested any of it except for creating new folders )

smells like an xploit it's comming from this XD

When right-click on a folder in either the tree view or file list view and Extracting, I get everything inside the folder but not the folder itself. It would be significantly more convenient to get the topmost (ie right-clicked) folder as well.

What I'm doing right now is copying one of my arcade games. I right-click on 584108C and Extract to the desktop and I'm left with just the folder 000D0000. If it copied the 584108C folder as well I could just drag that into my FTP client and transfer without having to manually create the folder in Content\000...\
This is while browsing a flash drive, in case that makes a difference.

Great program otherwise.

I thought I had it create the root -- guess not... I will get on that right now. Thanks!

I am pretty sure the device ID is the issue. I will have to verify how it is calculated and maybe I can get it to work.

Confirmed. The Device ID value in the data files is what locks it to the USB itself. Modifying it to match the ID of the new USB will make it work. Unfortunately, it seems to be calculated differently than hard-drives. Once I figure it out, formatting will be a possibility.

Good work and good luck sir. If all goes as planned, I'll hopefully push out an update that includes writing functionality and the above (STFS stuff) today.

Does the program have a limit on how many folders/files it can display? For whatever reason it doesn't show all of my folders under my gamertag and even trying to navigate to them manually tells me "Path Not Found"

It shouldn't... But I have a feeling that it's with the flags I set for it to recognize as folders. If you could, could you open your drive in a hex editor (in HxD it's Extras>Open Disk, and the disk will be under physical drives with the number under the "ID" in my device opener), then go to offset 0x130EB0000. After that, search for the name of the folder, and any folders you can't see, could you tell me the byte directly before the name of the folder?

My 16GB USB flash drive doesn't show up a device in the DeviceSelector. My friend's 8GB USB flash drive doesn't show up either. We are both using 1.0.0.4. Have we both missed a step? Do we need to install something other than the .exe?

Thank you.

Nope... my guess is that it could either be used by another program or just something else that's weird. I'll be sure to look in to this -- thanks! Just to make sure... you guys ran it as admin, correct?

Edit (don't feel like double-posting):
Here's 1.0.0.5. Still no writing support for the standalone exe, but you can download the source and compile that with the "IsBeta" bool in the main form set to false (be careful, that form is very messy!)

Changelog:
-Fixed a bug with a reading function that liked to read more bytes than it should
-Made it so that it should request administrator permissions at startup (should fix some people's issues...)
-Added the reading of general STFS info, as you can see from this screenshot: http://imgur.com/neMr6.png
-Added a "properties" window for files
-Other small bug fixes that I can't remember

Source
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FEW8OQ6C
(Mirror)
http://www.mediafire.com/?nem1z2205tpxg99

EXE (should prompt to update automatically upon startup)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=187BV84C
(Mirror)
http://www.mediafire.com/?a1cd47q6m2egkpf

Happy gobbler day, everyone.

Thanks for responding! I tried 1.0.0.5 and again, my USB flash drive doesn't show up in the DeviceSelector.

I can mount the flash drive fine in USB XTAF Xplorer 32 beta3 and the flash drive works fine in my Xbox.

The flash drive is SanDisk Cruzer, appears as H:, device descriptor is USB Mass Storage Device at Port_#0001.Hub_#0008 if that helps at all.

My friend and I found that USB XTAF Xplorer seems to have a bug where you can't transfer a large file (like a 2GB), so we wanted to try out your app.

Cheers.