Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2017 3:55 pm Post subject: Max. Partition Size Possible in Original Xbox HDD?
Hi there. Having recently acquired a 2TB modded Xbox, I'm somewhat concerned that the 'G:/' partition is showing 1,776,000 megs of free space available. Although I'm a complete novice at such things, I've heard that the original XBox is wrackef by some very nasty issues if it contains a drive over 500GB i.e. en masse data corruption. Can anyone confirm this to be true or can I continue using my Xbox without concerns?
Assuming that the former is true, I'm guessing that I'll have to divide the G:/ drive into smaller, more manageable partitions. To that end, I've downloaded XBPartitioner 1.3 but it doesn't appear all that user friendly. I'm totally perplexed by the interface; can some kind person please give me instructions on how to split up my G:/ ddrive?
Finally, I've also heard that for the drive to run smoothly, they need to be formatted in 32k clusters. Firstly, I'm not even sure what that actually means. More pressingly however, XBpartitioner doesn't seem to offer that as an option. Instead, it seems to automatically select the cluster size (e.g. 16k, 32k, 124k) based on th spatial dimensions of the drive itself. Could anyone shed any light on this?
Thanks in advance!
Tomypop Xbox-HQ Newbie
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 4:01 am Post subject:
Original Xbox HDDs, without a partition table, can have both F and G drives. If there is extra space after the stock/retail partitions, it can be used for an F drive, and sometimes a G drive. The F drive can be up to 120 GB. That is the limit because that is the maximum size the stock/retail Xbox BIOS can support.
Dkoots Moderator
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 1:28 am Post subject:
You can use Cerbios or Titan and they will allow one partition to hold everything. No more needing to add a G: partition. _________________
Tomypop Xbox-HQ Newbie
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 7:14 pm Post subject:
Original Xbox HDDs, without a partition table, can have both F and G drives. If there is extra space after the stock/retail partitions, it can be used for an F drive, and sometimes a G drive. The F drive can be up to 120 GB. That is the limit because that is the maximum size the stock/retail Xbox BIOS can support.
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 12:47 am Post subject:
This is an almost six year old thread and whilst the new information about the BIOS is useful it is not going to apply to softmods so the old partition rules still have to be observed.
That means for a 2TB like the OP says he was using you must format both F and G to have less than 1TiB each. You simply split it equally between the two. That means it should report on the Xbox as about 962GB free space each.
Each must be formatted to use 64K clusters.
If you use 32K or, actually more likely, forget you need to reformat them and use the default 16K the drive(s) will corrupted if more than 512GiB or 256GiB respectively, of content is written to either.
The tool to use is XBPartitioner v1.3. That will not only format the HDD correctly (in most cases) it will show you if there are any errors on either extended partition 6(F) or 7(G).
You can use a 2.5TB or 3TB HDD to give you a little more space as you can partition it to go up to 1TiB for each drive, the maximum supported when using 64K clusters.
Of course you'll waste all that extra, unusable HDD space so IMHO it is best to consider a 2TB the largest HDD worth using and not just for that reason.
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