Hi Guys, So I had my pre softmodded Xbox with the original HD in it, I bought a new hard drive to upgrade the original one that was in it and I used Chimp to clone the data from the original HD to the new one. That went fine however now my new HD does not show all of the space that it should be doing..the partitions are still the small ones from the original HD and the new, larger storage amount doesn't appear to be available..has anyone had this issue before?
I'm not really familiar with Chimp but if you had an original HDD it means you only had C: and E: partitions (not counting X:, Y:, Z: cache partitions) on that drive. Therefore if you cloned your original drive, Chimp only cloned partitions C: and E:. Those 2 partitions should be fixed in size and will not cover the whole HDD. You need to format new partitions (F: and G: optionally) using a formatting tool. To make it simple, use any bootdisk for Xbox like Xbox Deluxe Installer, Slayer's Evox Disc or Hexen disc and find the formatting options. Then format new partitions (F: only or F: and G and you should be ready to go! Your dashboard should pick up automatically the new drive letters. Maybe Chimp as a formatting menu but you skipped it. Like I said I never used chimp so I can't tell if this information is valid or not.
Thank you so much for the reply! I found an option in Chimp to format some partitions so I chose to partition the F: with the new space (Well it found 137GB of it) and now I seem to be fine..was just a bit worried that if I saved things to the F: that they would not appear in the relevant sections of the dash (Apps, games etc.) but the dash seems to just show things from all partitions within the dashboard and the relevant sections..I assume this is a feature?
I currently using UnleashedX..didn't realise I could just change the dash without reinstalling the mod..also I looked at XBMC and i just thought it was a media center (just for music and videos) take it I was wrong? Lol Found out a little more about XBMC and I see that it's just an app that I can set to auto run to avoid seeing the UnleashX dash..?
It does everything, really. File browser, media, games, apps, emulators, etc. My personal opinion is that it's the best out of the dash options.
Okay cool, I read about that application..don't want to go formatting my HD though..I think it's okay, just the data is on a separate partition to the one I wanted it to be on..
Partition F can only store 137GB, you'll have to enable Partition G to get the rest. Chimp was only to load backups during the cloning stages, I suggest you grab AID, and prepare the drive again.
Well that's not too bad because it's only a 160GB HD anyway so I haven't lost much space..I will just create the G drive too for the rest of the space . Don't want to go formatting my whole HD because I don't want to go deleting all my stuff and having to put it all back on again..
I'm not really into softmod but I guess you must have used a recent package with nkpatcher? According to nfo of v10, HDD partition table reading is supported since version v9 I think. You can create custom partition scheme and nkpatcher will support it. http://www.xbins.org/nfo.php?file=xboxnfo1164.nfo Just make sure to never modify C: and E: partition or you'll likely break your softmod. If so you could use xbpartitionner in order to manually extend the F partition to use up all remaining space. No G: drive but a single, bigger F: drive that use up all space available. Of course by doing this you'll need to reformat the F: drive but if you don't touch C: and E: in xbpartitionner they'll stay intact and your data and softmod install will still be there. Alternatively, instead of using xbpartitionner, you could modify your install of nkpatcher to go from "F up to 137GB and G takes the rest"(67 parititon scheme) to "F takes it all" (06 partition scheme). Basically, replace your nkpatcher-67.xbe file (likely it will be named differently) for nkpatcher-06.xbe on your softmod install. It should be on your real C drive (not the shadowed C the softmod package you used probably created). The second option will probably require more effort than using xbpartitionner. If you don't know how to use xbpartitionner you could look up on youtube or on xbox-scene forums.
I just cloned a 250 to a 500 gb hdd. So even though partitioner like Chimp gives me the option to have F occupy all the space, it won't work? Only 137gb?
I used Chimp to put in a 250gb hard drive and only use F drive which gave it 137gb, I then used Disk Partitioner to put the rest in it.
