Making G And F Partitions Usable

[The Magic Hobo]

I've recently gotten EvoX installed successfully on my Xbox, but have been unable to find way to make the G and F partitions on the HDD(OEM 10GB one that's installed already) usable, EvoX itself displays them as full and other apps like DVD2Xbox wont let me select them.

Someone told me that I need to format both partitions using FlashXP using a command like;

Format \Device\Harddisk0\Partition5 or 6 depending on which partition. I was adamant as surely formatting these partitions using FlashXP will format them to NTSC or FAT32 or something like that, not FATX, so won't this mean the Xbox will be unable to use them anyway?

Cheers for any help.

[Master Chief]

On the OEM hard drive? Why bother. You're better off buying a new one. Take a look here - Xbox Hard Drive Compatibility Chart (http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=list)

And about formatting a new hard drive, you can actually use EvoX to do this (you have to make a special EvoX boot disk however). Some modchips also have the option in their BIOS to do this as well.

[blueshogun96]

On my debug Xbox the G and F partitions show as memory card slots. I'm sure it is on a retail Xbox too. Is that what you're referring to?

[chipsugar]

The tool xbpartitioner.xbe can be downloaded from certain xbox homebrew ftp sites. Transfer that to the xbox and use it to partition from there. Also the f: and g: partitons shouldn't appear as memory slots but as normal xbox partitions.

[The Magic Hobo]

@blueshogun, out of interest, if G and F are memory card slots what are the partitions on the HDD itself on a debug console.

And chipsugar, cheers for that, I'll look in the usual place for getting Xbox apps, I've used it a few times in the past, invaluable while I was setting up my Xbox initially :)


EDIT AGAIN: I can;t be arsed to mess around with the OEM HDD, I'll figure out xbpartitioner when I have a larger HDD.

[blueshogun96]

@blueshogun, out of interest, if G and F are memory card slots what are the partitions on the HDD itself on a debug console.

Actually I don't know :) I haven't been able to do much with my debug Xbox since my DVD drive is f@#%ing up on me and is causing other problems. So now it only runs debug XDK apps, no retail apps, games or OpenXDK stuff either :mad:

[JJXB]

you need a bigger HD. that's the only way to use F/G on a soft/hardmodded xbox AFAIK