I was attempting to use XBPartitioner to allow my original Xbox full access to the 500GB HDD. I read that you need to make partition F into 32k Clusters and then it will allow you to have full access, making one huge F partition and a small or nonexistent G partition. So I FTPed the XBPartitioner over and opened it with XMBC through the "My Files" setting. It started up as usual and I was at the main screen which was divided into two different blocks. There were 5 regular partitions that I didn't change at all and the only ones I changed were the two under extended partitions, partition 6 and 7. My first attempt at using XBPartitioner I boosted up the amount of gigs on partition 7 to the max before the number stopped scrolling which I believe was ~330 GB, this left about ~120 GB (If my memory serves me right) on partition 6. I rebooted the xbox and checked to see if I had full access to the HDD but on system configuration screen and XBMC screen it either didn't update or didn't change anything regarding the change in HDD space. So I tried it again and this time moved all the GBs to partition 6 ~440GB and then rebooted the Xbox with partition 7 nonexistent. When it restarted I could not access any of the files I previously had on the HDD, the files don't even appear under any of the dashboard categories. I have no idea what I have to do to regain access to the files I have FTPed over to my F drive. It was a huge mistake for me to not check which partition 6 and 7 were but I think they correspond with partition F and G or partition E and F. Is there anyway for me to access the files on my HDD through EVOX, so I can just open up XBPartitioner again and redo the mistake? Any help would be appreciated, I just REALLY need to get the xbox to an accessible state. Many thanks! -Matt Edit: I have been reading up on the XBpartitioner and it says formating the partition to 32k clusters, the partition is reformated and all files are deleted. I suspected as much but when I go on my FTP program I can still see my folders and such in the F drive but I can no longer access them. Am I suppose to delete everything and just reFTP everything? I still have my EEPROM as well since it is the first thing I backed up multiple times.
Xbpartitionner Partition 6 is the F partition, and Partition 7 is the G partition. It depends upon your bios if you have only a F partition, or a F and G partition. The ndure softmod for instance has 2 different nkpatcher versions. The nkpatcher06 is the one that only has a F partition, the nkpatcher67 creates a F and a G partition. If you change the partition setup with xbpartitionner, than all contents of the F and G partition will be lost. You will need to reformat those partitions from within your dashboard. It's also a good practice to ftp a small file to the partition and check if the free space was reduced with 32K, proving that the cluster size is indeed 32KB and everything works as expected. regards.
I was guessing as much as I just attempted to FTP something over and it looks like all the files in my F partition are gone. What do you mean by formatting my HDD after using the partitioner? After I finish FTPing something like XBMC over and test if it did FTP over, how can I check if it is in 32k clusters and that everything I previously had on the HDD is gone? Thanks!
