Joe Chip Posted May 2, 2018 Report Share Posted May 2, 2018 Hi, I've managed to swap out the 200GB hard drive on an old Xecuter3 modded Xbox and I've got it to boot to UnleashX, but I'm not sure about the formatting of F: and G. I've tried both setting it to around 927GB for each partition and also tried F 120GB G 1734GB but I seem to remember there are some issues with hard drive sizes and partitions. How should I be setting it up to avoid any data loss as I load up games and apps? Thanks for any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Chip Posted May 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2018 Like an idiot, I forgot to mention that I'm using a 2TB drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wikati Posted May 2, 2018 Report Share Posted May 2, 2018 are you using xbpartitioner? is G: enabled? i think that matters. (there is an option in unleashx) try booting to the x3 live config. maybe settings in there... i believe you hold white button while booting.... i always use just F but havent ever used a 2tb drive. apologies for lacking precision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Chip Posted May 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2018 Cheers for the reply. I've been into live config. You can set f to around 120GB with G being left over for the remainder. I'm not sure how that will work with such a large drive, though due to the cluster size. Honestly, it's been so long since I looked at this stuff and we didn't have 2TB drives back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Chip Posted May 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2018 Oh, and I've looked at XBpartitioner too. It will let me set various options but as I say, I'm not sure if they will work once I start filling up G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted May 2, 2018 Report Share Posted May 2, 2018 (edited) The maximum partition size using 64KB clusters is 1,024GB. Therefore, a G drive (partition 7) of 1,734GB won't work. With XBPartitioner v1.3, create two equal sized extended partitions: Partition 6 - 927.78GB Partition 7 - 927.78GB Then, use XBPartitioner v1.3 to write a partition table to the HDD. The latest X3 BIOS, Build 3294, should read the partition table saved to the hard drive. Edited May 2, 2018 by KaosEngineer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Chip Posted May 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2018 Cheers. I saw your previous post on this and it was very helpful. I was getting to the point where partition 6 and 7 were roughly the size you are showing here (949GB) but the Xbox kept deleting the G drive on reboot. Took a bit of digging but once I got into the bios setup screen I could make it read the partition table and then it started seeing G again. I've got to leave it now as it's late, but thanks for the help. I think I've sorted it but I'll have another look in the morning. Cheers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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