Installing 250gig HDD with X2.6 mod

[Gza099]

I'll be striaght up i'm a noobie, but i got the mod installed and the bios flashed eventually with the aid of a programmer cuz bank 1 and 2 fragged after bios install. Install my slayers dash but got the 137GIG problem.

I can see note on 3x Config live but is that compatible with X2.6. Need some advice?

 

[dsscrusher]

Flash the bios with x2-5035 (there is 2 versions depending on ver of xbox). You can also use x2ool to change the above bios to allow partitions greater than 137gb and whether you want it to be all in F or F and G drives.

 

[Gza099]

thanx will try that tonight... running ver xbox 1.1 with a seagate 250. i also noticed that alot the guys on here have hitatchi drives? did i make a mistake going with seagate.

 

[Big_Whoopin]

There will be an LBA48 file in the 5035 archive that explains the settings. By default the 5035 BIOS is set to F gets rest, i.e. F gets all space after about the 8GB mark. You'll probably need to reformat to see the changes, I'm not sure. On my 160GB Seagate this is the case. Boils down to about 145-150GB once the byte -> kilobyte -> megabyte -> gigabyte math and filesystem overhead are applied. I haven't seen anywhere and no one has yet provided me with the absolute limits of the LBA48 partitioning, but for some reason the figure of 2TB sticks in my head. Anyone have the facts here? And like dsscrusher mentioned, be sure you put on the right BIOS version for your box. The file names identify which is which.

Also, be sure to back up your data before playing around with your parititions, if you've got anything of value on there.

-Whoopin'