mod xbox wont see f drive (Solved)

my modded xbox has a 350 gig hard drive, I use DVD2XBOX to backup games.
Problem: Games saved to F: wont show up or run from the dash.
The xbox has a 10 gig drive as well and only games there will run?
Please help I love this thing.

 

Correction: dvd2xbox only saves to e drive (10 gig hd)
I have to move the games from e to f to save when memory low on e:
I want the F drive to be my main drive cus its larger
THX

 

Just to restate: DVD2XBOX only copies to e:
The dash only sees games on the e:
I can ftp and see and move files to f:

 

THX , I have been trying to do that in various areas, could ya be more specific.
I have enables F: drive every place I can find.

Appreciate your help very much

 

I have Evox and Avalaunch, checked both those settings again and both have f: enabled.
Could my mod chip be faulty?
THX again

 

Have you formatted F?.. it won't show unless it has a filesystem.

Once you have it formatted and visible look at the dvd2xbox .ini file and edit the paths for game dump locations accordingly (F:\games)

 

Its was formatted, but I think I should re-format it... Is there a tutorial that can step me thru that?

 

RTFM.. you have an installer disk. This is old hat.

FYI.. F: is a PARTITION not a drive.. in xbox (rel core linux os terms) terminology the hdd is /dev/hda and the dvd drive is /dev/hdb.. they are addressed as such by the bios.. with dev/hdb being tied in the bios to a udf/iso9660 file system.

C: = /dev/hda1 D:=/dev/hdb E:=/dev/hda2 etc.. so you try cramming anothyer drive in and the OS will assign it to /dev/hdc.. and the kernel has no handler for that.. because it's looking for IDE1 master which in an xbox doesn't exist as there is no controller for it.

You can't use 2 hdd's and a dvd drive at the same time. Only 2 devices are allowed at the same time on an ide cable, and I don't think the standard modded xbox kernel will handle 2 hdd's.. because it expects one to be a dvd drive.. That's why you can't see anything on the other drive. Just use the big drive which will need a full set of applications and dash files just the same as the stock one.

Only an xbox with a cromwell bios (linux boot) will operate with 2 hdd's and no dvd drive.. and those don't play xbox games.

 

OK that makes sense.
Should I just hook up the large HD to the IDE cable in place of the 10 gig.
Then FTP all the files to it then

By the way thanks for your help, been great. Afterdawn people are superb

 

Sorry to sound foolish...
I bought the xbox already modded, Im going to open it in a few hrs here.

I suspect Ill have only one hard drive but partitioned as e: and f: maybe c: as well?
Does that make sense.

So I should reformat it (after backing up all the files on c & e and partition as e: 10 gig, and f: as the larger but in 128 gig increments ( I read something about 32 bit clusters) g and H as well.
c, e f g h ?

 

What dash are you using?

 

I am using the Evox dash.
The unit got a power surge and thats when my trouble started.
Im very confused that itll see the 10 Gig but wont write to the larger partition even if I FTP.

 

Ok i'm a bit confused here.... so i'm going to guess what's going on. As far as i know you have a 350 gig drive in your xbox and you're having problems. So this could point to data corruption because somebody didn't format the drive correctly.

More than likely you'll have to reformat the drive. It doesn't sound like you're going to be able to do this by yourself, but I will try to help.

OR

If i didn't guess correctly and you actually have a stock 10 gig drive in your xbox.

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Either way click here and follow the instructions.

After you burn the iso to a dvdr throw it in your xbox, and if it doesn't auto boot load avalaunch and you will see a cd up in the right top corner of the screen. Select the cd and the program will load.

It will take about 45 seconds or so for it to load (it's a huge program)

When it loads you will see the very top option "Backup / Restore HDD"
Then down the menu a bit you will see "Backup Eeprom" select that option.

It will copy some files to your xbox and load the eeprom backup program. Just choose a place to backup your eeprom to.

It will automatically load the original auto installer menu.

Here i'll even take a picture for you...



On the right side of the screen you will see

Write all this information down and let me know what it says, you can even take a picture of it if i can read what it says.

Anyway we want to ftp into the xbox at this point.
Use this tutorial

or you can do what i do, pretty much the same as mik3h

1. go to the start menu and select run
2. type in "explorer"
3. a window will pop up, enter in what mik3h tells you to type in internet explorer.
4. you will see the contents of your hard drive, go to where you backed up your eeprom and drag it to the desktop.

Just to make sure we're on the same page if i were to ftp into my xbox right now i would type "ftp://xbox:xbox@192.168.0.2"

You want to copy your C folder over to your computer and your E over to your computer.

Reply back when you have all this done and i'll have another set of instructions for you.

 

THats great info and it makes sense.
Yes its a 350 HD only.
Im downloading the AID files, so It'll be a while b4 I get back with that info you requested.

Cant thank you enough

 

With this approach we can fix multiple problems at once so if we didn't diagnose the problem right it will still fix all the other problems you have.

Just make sure you back up your eeprom, C folder, and E folder and everything will be set.

You're welcome, and don't worry, we'll get this this figured out.

 

Heres the screen info you requested
Ver: 1.6
Video: NTSC M
IP: 198.168.0.2
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.0.100
c: 290.67 MB Free
e: 4,264.13
f:7,721.30
g:0

Using AID Ver: 4.30

 

Dont see the backup EEprom listed, but I dont see it listed on your screen shot.
at least from the main menu

 

OK found it. Clicked the backup eeprom option. It did some some work.
How do I move the eeprom files to desktop, or should I move it to e as some of the options suggest.

Getting closer and hopefull