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I did like you said. Took out the drive, connected it to a sata to usb adapter and used Fatxplorer. Much quicker and no issues backing up F+G. Thanks Ive been tinkering about with XBPartitioner. These are the extended partition schemes that I've tried in XBPartitioner. All within iND-BiOS 5003.67. F Drive - 120gb, 16kb Clusters. G Drive - Not Used ***Working*** F Drive - 924gb, 64kb Clusters. G Drive - Not Used ***Working*** F Drive - 462gb , 32kb Clusters. G Drive - 462gb, 32kb Clusters *** Working*** F Drive - 120gb, 32kb Clusters. G Drive - 803gb, 64kb Clusters ***Not Working*** I have also tried a number of custom schemes. It seems that if I change G drive to anything beyond a 32kb cluster then iND-BiOS will not detect it. More information for anyone that reads this. My hard drive is a Western Digital 1TB WD10EZEX and I am using an 80 conductor IDE ribbon. I'm happy to split the drive equally into F+G. Is there anything you guys want me to try before I start to fill the HDD again?

Unfortunately it dosn't support extra ram so I dont think thats an option for me Do any of you use synology DSM File Station for ftp? Would you recommend it?

Yeah I followed your instruction. I moved the config files to there appropriate directory, flashed the bios and booted into each bios. With the X2 bios I could access G Partition in xbmc4gamers and other dashboards (emustation, avalaunch) With the iND-BiOS I had the same issue as before. No G partition. I also flashed with FlashX and Xblastos just to be sure something wasn't happening there. No difference. I thought initially that I had to have two seperate extended partitions for HDD's over 500gb's for that to work properly. I've realised that is only needed for HDD's over 1tb. So there is no reason I cant make one single extended F drive. Once I backup my data I will try a few different scheme's and see if the extended drives are detected in the iND-BiOS.

Apologies. You had asked to make sure that G drive is enabled in the replacement dashboards I use. I enabled G drive from within the other dashboards. I still wasn't able to access the G drive when using the iND-BiOS Edit: I'm assuming you mean that if I use EvolutionX dashboard for example. That I should enable G drive in the settings

Im going to back up my data and reformat the 5th and 7th partition. Ill try the same format I have now (6th partition 16kb clusters and 7th partition 64kb clusters) I will also split the extended partitions equally (two 32kb clusters). It will take some time to move my game files to my nas. Ill let you know the results probably next year (or hopefully sunday) Edit: G drive was enabled in other dashboards. Still no detection of the drive

I think I might do this. I have it in my head that something went wrong during the format of the hard drive. I would hate for my game files to somehow become corrupted. The cluster size of the 7th Partition is 64kb. Heres a picture of the disk.bin contents.

I could reformat. I have about 800gb of data which I need to backup before I reformat. This will take quite some time so im not too keen on that Is it possible to have two instances of X2-5035 with two different config files?

Notice in this picture with a bios that detects the G partition you can see the cluster size in the extended partition Then notice in this next picture with the iND-BiOS the cluster size is missing Edit also the LBA48 patch is defferent (v3 and v16) Edit SS_Dave these pictures are with the bios you sent me. The first image being the X2 bios and the second being the iND-BiOS

Hi guys It was the bios labeled "iND-BiOS.5003.67.bin" 256k. I believe I used the config file in bios/indconfig/untouched. However, I edited this with the config app. My intention is to have two iND-BiOS. One to boot to 4Gamers and one to boot to Emustation. I could then switch between them with the X2.6 bank switch. So to do this I created two config files "ind-config-b1.cfg" and "ind-config-b2.cfg". I then edited the bios files within the iND-BiOS config app to point to each of these config files on E partition. I had no reason to change the directory of the config files other than thats were the rest of my files where (dashboards, apps etc). They do seem to work. Each with differently edited flubber animations and colours. The only ceveat being that they aren't detecting G partition. Great work on the installer disc! I'm on windows 10 also. I cant say I had any issues running this app. It all seemed to work fine. Yes there is this option. There reason I wanted to use this feature is so I can run two instances of the iND-BiOS with their own configuration Yes I did. I kept a known working bios on one bank and flashed my edited iND-BiOS to the other bank. The seems to work to my knowledge but just wont detect the G partition. I have also tried Sweetdarkdestinys un-edited iND-BiOS and config file within the C partition. Still the same result, no G partition. I appreciate your time. I cant help thinking that Ive made an error when formating the new hard drive. Im going to post a couple more pictures of XBPartitioner Thanks

I boot into 4Gamers from the iND bios. I press the black button and it says G: Unavailable. When I enter the file manager and try to click on the G partition it says something like Remote Share: Unavailable or path dosnt exist. Not just in 4Gamers but any other dashboard also the same result. No access G partition. I'll take some pictures tomorrow. Unfortunately I have work in the morning so I need to go to sleep. Speak tomorrow. Thanks for your help

Making progress. The X2 bios works. Its detecting my additional ram and also detecting G partition and its contents. The iND-BiOS however still isn't detecting the G partition. Strange. I guess I can just stick with the X2 bios. Is there any other troubleshooting I could do to figure out why the iND-BiOS isnt working as intended? Thanks very much dave

its in e:/xbmc4gamers/default.xbe

My default dash is XBMC4Gamers. I have tried to access G partition with other dasboards (XBMC-Emustation, Avalaunch) but I can only access the partition with M8 bios.

Unfortunately that hasn't worked. Some more information. I have and x2.6 modchip. Two bios banks. In order to flash the iND-BiOS I create a config file with IND-Bios Config App v0.4.30 and change and point the bios to E partition where I keep the config file. I then change the bios size to 512k so I can fit two 512k bios on my modchip. Then I flash it with FlashX V1.2 Xecuter. Maybe I have caused an issue in this process? Thanks

Hi Dave I got the bios from sweetdarkdestiny's OGXbox Installer disc. I have an edited config file on my E Partition with the bios pointing to it. It all seems to work fine (edited blob etc.) I havn't tried the 5004.67 yet. ill give it a try now Thanks

I have tried to write the partition table like this in the picture below but it made no difference. After I re-wrote the table I rebooted the console from the power button and checked that the changed persisted. I have since changed it back tia

Hi again Following up on my previous post about mt ram upgrade. Ive ran into another issue. I have installed a 1tb HDD. Prior to upgrading my ram I had already formated the with F partition taking 120gb and G partition taking the rest of the space. I have filled F partition with xbox games which has taken quite some time. Ive now realised that IND-BIOS 5003.67 will not read G partition. M8 bios will read the G partition but then i wont be able to take advantage of my extra ram. From what Ive read it is to do with how my G patition table is written. If this is the issue, is there any way I re-write the partition table without disturbing the data?

Hi I was able to add the upper 64meg ram. It took a lot of patience and about four reflows of each chip. Thanks for the advice dave

Ah okay. I really need to do more thorough reasearch before I dive in. I'll continue on then with my other chips until I get the full 128meg. Thanks Dave

Hi Im in the process of upgrading my ram. The mod chip im using is an x2.6 with ind-bios. I have the xblastos xbe installed on my HDD. My thinking was that I could boot to my dashboard then launch the xblastos xbe to check each ram chip. However, upon powering on the xbox, it boots three times and the led's flash red and orange. My question is do I need the xblast bios flashed to my modchip for the xbox to boot during the upgrade or have I made a mistake during the installation? Im quite confident about my soldering. Checking under x60 magnification and lots of light tia

I havent reprogrammed it myself. I wouldnt know how. I bought this chip from new so I think it just has its stock programming. How would I interface with that? Ardunio? That defeats my purpose for this anyway. Shame about the IGR booting back to the power button bios. Its not important I guess. The chip works. I can boot a custom dash which is what really matters. I actually have my old x2.6 from a decade ago in my main xbox version 1.2. Complete with the three toggle switches. Works great. Two iND Bios which boot to seperate dashboards, depending on which bank I select with the toggle switch. Im going to upgrade the ram and install an internal Wii2HDMI mod hopefully in the next week. I would love an x3 chip to play about with but the price tag is a bit much. I wasnt aware of this either until I opened up XblastOS and seen the options for eject and power button.

I would be okay with this but I would like to be able to in game reset back to Emustation when im playing emulators and reset back to XBMC4Gamers when im playing xbox games. I know im being fussy. From the picture I believe its a 1meg chip. Ultimately its not important. I can still boot to a custom dash. I just wanted to make sure I hadnt made an error somewhere.

Hi Dave Thanks for your response. Yeah, i've set the default dash differently in each bios file. I know they work correctly becuase I can boot them from within XBlastOS and they launch the correct dash. It seems that if I dont have an XBlastOS bios flashed to the 256k bank then I lose the eject trick hack function. The LED light wont flash to red when I boot and when I press the eject button it only ejects the dvd drive and boots to the 256k bank regardless of setting. Correct me if im wrong. Its my understanding that the Aladdin XT has three bios banks - bank0, bank1 and bank2. Bank2 would hold the XBlastOS bios and this would persist to allow the eject trick hack to function and any other custom setting from within the XBlastOS configuration file. Is this correct? So its my thinking that bank2 is possibly broken? Would it be safe to flash bank2 with an older version of XBlastOS bios? Or would this be pointless Thanks, Its late in the evening here in Ireland so excuse me if I dont respond. Also fair play to you mate. I've been reading through these forums for a couple of months. Your name keeps popping up in topics that have helped me a lot. Its great that people are keeping the original xbox alive. I'm modding two xbox's at the moment. One for myself and one for my friend. We played halo on xbconnect way back before xbox live had launched. We're hoping to get playing again on xlink kai.

Hi This forum is great but i've exhuasted searching for a solution to my problem. What I would like to do is be able to boot two bios. One with the power button to launch XBMC4Gamers and one with the eject button to launch XBMC-Emustation. I've been away from the xbox mod scene for about a decade until recently but from what I understand I should be able to do this with my new aladdin mod chip. My xbox is a 1.6 so i've had to rebuild the LPC. I have modified two M8 16 bios .bin files - One 512k bios to boot to XBMC4Gamers and one 256k bios to boot to XBMC-Emustation (both 480p bios, I have Wii2HDMI internal mod) Flashed the bios files to their appropriate banks on my Aladdin XT Changed the settings from within XblastOS to allow quickboot - power button 512k bios, eject button 256k bios Regardless of what settings I change my xbox will only ever boot the 256k bios and launch XBMC4Gamers. However if i flash bank1 (256k) with the XblastOS bios the settings then it will work and I can choose which bios to boot (either XblastOS or whichever bios i have flashed to the 512k bank). I have tried to flash bank2 (OS) on the modchip with the XblastOS bios but it made no difference. Im thinking perhaps it is a problem with my soldering but i've checked my connections for continuity and they all seem fine. I have also earthed the d0 to the ground screw but the picture below was taken before I made that connection. Hopefully ive explained that okay. Its not a major issue because I can use the xbox as it is but I would like the option to boot into two dashboards, with the touch of a button, if possible. tia

XBMC4gamers is awesome. Shame you cant get it to work.