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Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 6:18 am Post subject:
SPPV wrote:
forahobby wrote:
ZedU54 wrote:
...edit: also, did AID format the HD correctly? I have a C: (328.8 MB), an E: (4.41 GB) and an F: (120.5 GB), no G: (this is a 160 GB drive; since it is larger than 137 GB, there should be a G:, shouldn't there?), also, a Q: (??), also 4.41 GB.
1. Where did the Q: come from?
2. Should the C:, E:, F: and G: be the same size?
3. Should I just blow the whole thing up and start again?? ...it seems a little crazy..,
Yes AID formats correctly..
1. Q Drive is your memory card
LMAO boy it has been a long time huh? Q is the XBMC drive (usualy E, but will be whatever partition XBMC is on. notice the identical partition sizes betweenE/F or C and Q)
Joined: Sep 13, 2010 Posts: 2644 Location: Kamloops BC Canada
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 6:30 am Post subject:
I dont know why they did it that way (seems very weird, maybe easier code wise, dont know) But Q is essentialy a fake drive. Its just a "mirror" of whatever partition XBMC is on. You go into Q via filemanager and compare it to the "Real" partition (E in this case) all the same files everything. You copy something to E, boom its on Q. Its not taking any space, and you will only see it in XBMC. If you pop in Babylon and boot it, no Q (cause Babylon is Ux backbone) or run an emu like Neogenesis then browse for your ROM folder Q wont be listed. Only XBMC sees Q. Seems very James Bond "Why hello 007 I have something new for you, its an imaginary invisible partition. I call it the Q drive" LMFAO
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Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 1:22 am Post subject:
SPPV wrote:
forahobby wrote:
ZedU54 wrote:
...edit: also, did AID format the HD correctly? I have a C: (328.8 MB), an E: (4.41 GB) and an F: (120.5 GB), no G: (this is a 160 GB drive; since it is larger than 137 GB, there should be a G:, shouldn't there?), also, a Q: (??), also 4.41 GB.
1. Where did the Q: come from?
2. Should the C:, E:, F: and G: be the same size?
3. Should I just blow the whole thing up and start again?? ...it seems a little crazy..,
Yes AID formats correctly..
1. Q Drive is your memory card
LMAO boy it has been a long time huh? Q is the XBMC drive (usualy E, but will be whatever partition XBMC is on. notice the identical partition sizes betweenE/F or C and Q)
Now since you dont see G most likely reason is because it wasnt formated. XBMC doesnt require G enabled in settings like Ux does,it will see it automatically. Your best option is to either use AID, Babylon or XBPartioner to format the G.
On to the dash issue. Very best/easiest way to go multi dash is to install the one you want as main dash to C or E (depends on your BIOS settings) then install the others as applications. Just make sure each dash's executable (XBE) is named default and pop it in 1 of your apps folders. And something else you may wanna consider is installing Babylon. Its very easy to do and then you will always have a backdoor right on the HDD for fixing messups. And it can double as the latest Ux dash. Just sayin And you will also have the latest emus and emu makers "official" ROM sets (Xtras) and they go great with the Xtras Installers if you want all that spiffy eye candy like box art and video previews etc.
And also just so you know you aren't missing much space. a 160GB HDD should format around 142-147GB Now F is 120.5GB, E is 4.4GB, C is about 330MB, and X/Y/Z are 750MB each. Your looking at like 14-19GB RAW which would be like 12-17GB formatted.
...well...couple weeks later, update: You're close; G: actually shows up as 21.55GB. Did the Babylon; actually liking the Ux dash better than the EvoX (and found a setting for my 24-hour time ). The direct link for XBMC doesn't work at present (not the end of the world right now; can get into it from Applications if I want to, but I'll get to it eventually). Also no problems FTPing with the Ux (EvoX had problems with FTP). Installed a few of the emus from the Babylon (NES, SNES, Genesis--my grandson loves the NES and SNES games, which is a big reason I wanted to get this working again), and got some other games back on it (Halo and Halo 2, Splinter Cell, Wolfenstein, and X-Men Legends) that had been on the original HD, along with a couple others (Doom 3 and Doom 3 RoE) that sounded interesting...still a work in progress, but everything is working well so far. Thanx for the help; once I got all the stuff (different install discs, etc.) sorted out I was able to muddle my way through...and have DVD-R 'hard copies' of everything if I ever have to do this again (I only use DVD-R for DVD burning; I've had compatibility issues with other types of recordable DVDs in the past)...
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Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:47 pm Post subject:
...for making my DVD 'hard copies' of the games (maybe I've done one or two unnecessary steps?):
1. Obtained the game from 'the usual sources'. Usually a large RAR file (often in two or more parts)
2. Used 7-Zip to un-RAR the game. I have an 'Xbox files' folder on my PC; I create a subfolder in there for each game and un-RAR it into that subfolder. Result usually comes up as an ISO.
3. Used C-Xbox Tool 2.0.5 to extract the ISO into the same subfolder. The folder now contains the ISO and a folder of the uncompressed game itself.
4. Used Filezilla to FTP the entire uncompressed folder into the F:\Games folder on the Xbox.
5. Rebooted the Xbox. The game complete with icon now shows up when I go to Games in the Ux dash and scroll through them.
6. Opened Imgburn. Write speed set to 4x (I know, I could use 8x, but given the age and reputation of the Thomson DVD drive in the Xbox, I choose to err on the side of caution and use a slower write speed). Loaded a blank DVD-R (no other type!) into PC's DVD drive. Opened the uncompressed game folder and used 'Select All', then dragged everything into ImgBurn, and burned and verified the disc. (I probably could just drag the whole unopened folder into ImgBurn, come to think of it, but I think this way I end up with a disc that would play directly from the DVD drive if I needed it to, and I can always use File Manager to copy the DVD onto a hard drive should the need arise again...then again, I could be wrong )
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Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2013 3:52 am Post subject:
The thing to remember with a 4x burn is the media MUST support it. Many quality brands are 8-16x, 4x seems to be getting rarer. And you need to be careful setting speed cause some media is just crap and burns at speeds it doesnt support, cough cough Sony DVD-r (auto burns at 22x even though max speed is 16x)
Also despite what you see online, Thompson drives are fine. The evidence as to drive quality for the various models is anecdotal and much comes from dare I say half-ass handicaps who wouldnt know there ass from a hole in the ground. To this day people blanket bash Thompson even though there was 2 models, first one pretty lame, second pretty good, and bash Philips even though they are the AK47 of DVD drives, and cry Samsung is best when it has more hardware failures than any other drive (tray failure, motor failure etc)
Since Fuji quit the burnable media game, I swear by Memorex and Maxell discs, both are made by Rite-K(The DVD GODS) and are 8x discs. As Im sure you can understand Ive owned every single XBOX revision made, and have never had an issue with any of them reading an 8x burn, but I have had issues with drives reading my older 4x Fuji discs. My Philips is the exception, sucker reads EVERYTHING
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Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2013 4:18 am Post subject:
...I used two Philips DVD drives (burners) when I built my last PC five years ago and they're still running strong. I'm using Sony DVD-R discs and they've been working fine at 4x. BUT-I've answered my own question above. My Xbox will not recognize the DVDs that I burned with the extracted files; if I load one it says 'DVD: Empty'. Logic seemed to dictate that as long as there is a 'default.xbe' file there, a DVD containing the extracted contents of an ISO file would run. Not so. I went back and burned new DVDs using the ISO image rather than the extracted files...and those work. Seems the Xbox is 'hard-coded' to only accept games in ISO (actually xiso) form via the DVD drive (interesting, however, that all the games work in extracted form off the hard drive). Perhaps the reputation that the Thomson drives has is based on ignorance of this...so I've gone back and burned ISO discs of the games I have so far. Not a total loss, though; the discs I made containing the files extracted from the ISOs are at least usable for FTPing or repairing damaged or corrupted files on the hard drive...
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And you will also have the latest emus and emu makers "official" ROM sets (Xtras) and they go great with the Xtras Installers if you want all that spiffy eye candy like box art and video previews etc.
). The direct link for XBMC doesn't work at present (not the end of the world right now; can get into it from Applications if I want to, but I'll get to it eventually). Also no problems FTPing with the Ux (EvoX had problems with FTP). Installed a few of the emus from the Babylon (NES, SNES, Genesis--my grandson loves the NES and SNES games, which is a big reason I wanted to get this working again), and got some other games back on it (Halo and Halo 2, Splinter Cell, Wolfenstein, and X-Men Legends) that had been on the original HD, along with a couple others (Doom 3 and Doom 3 RoE) that sounded interesting...still a work in progress, but everything is working well so far. Thanx for the help; once I got all the stuff (different install discs, etc.) sorted out I was able to muddle my way through...and have DVD-R 'hard copies' of everything if I ever have to do this again (I only use DVD-R for DVD burning; I've had compatibility issues with other types of recordable DVDs in the past)...
