F Drive with all apps & games gone

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johnrufino

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Hi All

Ive had this problem twice now where i have lost everything on my F:/. When i look in F:/games or F:/Apps, all my apps and games have dissapeared. The folders are still there but nothing inside them. Avalaunch still loads up. Looking in Filemanager I can see that my free space (which was about 15GB) is still there. I still have my C & E drives. Its happened when i have tranfered some games onto my hdd. It has also happened to a friend of mine who was playing a game and it froze so he rebooted his xbox and his whole F:/ was gone.

Is just a pain as I have to format my hdd and put everything back on. Anyone else had this problem?

I have Avalaunch, X3 chip.

Does anyone know how to get Avalauch to keep the time according to msdash. I have to keep switching off my chip and setting the time in msdash then switch the chip on and then avalaunch has the correct time for a few days but resets to year 2004.

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Fantmx

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Your time problem has nothing to do with Avalaunch. Are you unplugging your Xbox?
 
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johnrufino

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Yes, i have unplugged it. So everytime i unplug it i have to set the date and time again.

What about the contents of the F:/ drive dissapearing...ever had that problem
 
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Fantmx

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Every time you leave it unplugged for more than a few hours, yes you will have to reset the time. Did you change your hard drive settings at all in the X3 bios? Are you using the latest version?
 
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Fantmx

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edwin108 said:
To be exact, it takes three hours before the Xbox loses the time.
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Not true. I've had mine unplugged for 6+ hours and not had to reset the time.
 
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johnrufino

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Im currently using X3_3294 bios and have a 320Gb hard drive. But lets forget about the time thing, anyone had the prob with the F drive and all its contents dissapearing?
 
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Fantmx

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You will probably get more support asking this in the X3 forum.
 
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badazz74

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I just found this out today on x-s "If a drive is bigger than 256gigs it will corrupt all data after 256gigs. Reformat your F drive with xbpartitioner and it will format with 32k clusters making data corruption happen after 512gigs." Hope this helps.
 
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Big_Whoopin

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DJBOOBY said:
well with a 320 G hard drive you should be useing G format hard drive with x3config setting F gets 137G G get the rest
with large hard drives just useing F you will get prolbems lost games and errors
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Sadly this is the first time I have heard of this, I have yet to work with drives larger than 250GB on the Xbox so had no need to look into it. A little bit of research found more info at X-S (and in fact the thread that I assume badazz quoted) regarding this limitation. With 750GB IDE drives now available (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148133) it appears we are again hitting a wall. I've posted my thoughts over on the X-S thread (http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=522783&st=15) and am going to now search to see if there is any discussion on this in the X3 BIOS area... I believe Xecuter is more active in those forums and may have discussed or could answer if there is any possibility of future BIOS mods to support additional partitions. It will need to be a change both in BIOS and software (XBE) I assume.

-Whoopin'
 
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