Hi, I recently bought a pre-modded V1.0 Conexant XBOX with an Xecuter 3 modchip and front panel. It's been a very long time since I owned and used original XBOXs - at the time I was very capable to TSOP mod any xbox and fit new drives and dashboards, but that was 20 + years ago, so I'm very rusty... I also acquired a 2TB HDD + 80 pin IDE cable and SATA adaptor. The drive is recognised and loads the install of XBMC origins that was installed, however I can't see any of the pre-installed roms or games. It just complains of an invalid path - looking at it, it looks like everything is on F, but XBMC doesn't seem to be able to access it properly. Any ideas? I'd like to ensure I've got the best LBA48 capable BIOS flashed to the Xecuter3, but I'm rusty on the use of the banks and which BIOSs are the "best". Any advice? Thanks, Mark.
X3 Build 3294 (1024KB) banks 1-4. Other banks a variety of BIOSes can be flashed: X2 4983.[06 or 67].bin (256KB), X2 5035 (512KB), iND-BiOS 5003 (256KB) or Feb-11-05 Beta (aka iND-BiOS 5004 also 256KB), and Evolution-X M8plus (256KB). For HDD partition access problems, you need to make sure that the proper configuration for LBA48 is enabled for which the HDD was originally formatted to use. Partition 6 (F drive) allocated all the extra space or Partition 6 (F drive) up to 137GB and the remaining space to partition 7 (G drive) or other manually configured space allocation split with custom matching partition table written to the HDD. With a 2TB HDD, it is best to split the extra space equally between partition 6 and 7 (F and G drives) with each of 927.78GB's using 64KB clusters. Verify that 64KB clusters are in use by running XBPartitioner v1.3 and make sure that the extended partition lines do not have an "ER" (cluster size error indicator) printed next to the partition sizes. "ER" should not be visible in the boxed in RED area. Notice in this example the 16 to the left of the RED area for partition 6. This number indicates the cluster size in KB's - 16KB. For partitions greater than 512GB to 1024GB, the cluster size should be equal to 64.
