Hi, I picked up a Xbox Debug Kit today, never owned anything Dev before. I sold my original Xbox 5 years ago but great fun to have an original Xbox again. From lots of reading on this great site I got XDK installed (after much time setting up a Virtual Desktop!) and connected successfully to the HD with Xbox Neighbourhood. Although I am very excited to own it, I must admit I was disappointed to see the applications list blank! I have been browsing the contents of the drive and found this screenshot, I would love to know more about the origins of my Debug Unit, not sure if this Army Men screenshot tells me much! I have a few questions after several hours tonight with my Debug Kit - Can anyone suggest things to search for or explore to find more clues? Are there any tools that can help recover data from the drive? Is my dash the latest version - can you tell anything from the version number?
Most likely, if it isn't readily available, then there is not going to be anything. You can see if any cache files were left behind on the other drives, but that is about it. Currently, there is no recovery software that is compatible with the Xbox drives that I know of. Your dash is not the newest.
I thought given the file system is FATX it was unlikely there was anything that could be used for file recovery. Thanks for the feedback, even with little data it is nice to have something like this in my collection. Yes I was surprised at how blank it was, not even dolphin!
Not all recoveries install dolphin necessarily. And most people delete it, since it just takes up space.
Something I normally delete as well If I do it, Id imagine many developers did. It is clear that this unit wasn't recovered, since there was a screenshot found, but rather that someone just went and deleted things.
The kit I own is the same. Many empty folders, I think we really do need a HDD Recovery tool for debug kits. Wish I could program :/
The issue is that with the harddrive being as small as it is, unless something was -just- deleted, there is a higher likelihood of things being unrecoverable, simply because the data would be overwritten that much more quickly. Thats why I've been trying to recommend people that, when they get their kits and they know something was just deleted, to make a full harddrive image if possible. I don't know if that will help anything in the future, but it would be worth it for the chance.
Backup and I was thinking about writing some kind of recovery, but I seem not able to get a new hdd working in my dvt4 (If it wil, then I am able to test some stuf.) Currently using sources my own C# app is able to read the first partition and show all the folders... but I stopped there because I really need a working hdd in the xbox (I have 1, but original, and I want to recover whatever was there.) DVT4, seems hdd locked.
My Debug is sealed so I don't plan on opening the system, but if there could be some app to recover the partition where data is kept would be awesome. I understand what you're saying Borman, if only it were more simple.
