Upgraded bios 2913 formatted my drive

[Luckyone]

Hey,
I upgraded my X3 chip to the new 2913 bios and it booted fine after the update. I had it set boot to my dashboard (evox3935). I rebooted and held the white button so I could check out the new bios options. Right away a screen came up saying formatting usb drive and it deleted my full 200 gb maxtor drive. It didn't give me any options just rebooted itself and went to a black screen. It kept my led color change from when I had configured the old bios and displays my custom message on lcd screen. I have tried 3 drives and it formats any ide drive attached.
I tried both HDtv cables and the regular cables same results. If I disable the chip and put back in the stock xbox drive it boots normal with video. If I try to reflash the bios from http or disc or hard drive it says no bios found.

Please Help!!!!

 

[Luckyone]

Can anyone help me with this???? I have searched the forums and nothing...
Thanks

 

[d22k]

the reason its formatting is cos u uploaded the sample script, it clearly says it will reformat your drives.

 

[SniperRH]

thats sketchy, how do u disable the script?

 

[Luckyone]

Actually I didn't put the sample script on my xbox drive I only copied the bios and skins folder over to the xbox.
I had close to 200 GB of data on the drive and didn't want to risk it being deleted so after reading the read me file I decided to leave it off...

 

[erasedgod]

I had a similar experience. I went to my dash, then my games folder... empty... My F: drive was empty. I didn't get a formatting message, so I'm still hopeful it might... appear... or something. It's not showing the space though. It only says I've got 50Gb free. Which is about what I had before.

*Edit* Upon re-reading the original post... maybe it's not that similar.

 

[newnickhere]

That definately sounds like the sample script got onto your xbox somehow, or is being copied across. For now, either delete it from your system or alternatively put a # in front of any line that does not already start with the # character. That makes all lines comments only and nothing will execute from the script.

Unfortunately there is no way to recover the files you had on the formatted drive.

* It now appears that the sample script file has been edited and all lines are commented out now. That is how the one I downloaded today is anyway.

 

[Luckyone]

It keeps doing the same thing If 2913 is running even with a new drive or a drive that never had 2913 on it. Some how it retains the settings and just formats anything attached to it. I have the old bios loaded on the other banks and that boots fine. I have tried flashing the second banks with the old bios than updating to the new one and it still retains the old settings and starts to delete. It also saves the color led change and my custom x3 lcd settings. Even if I change it before I upgrade to 2913 it reverts back to what the settings were before in the original 2913 script.

 

[Luckyone]

Managed to fix the problem it was something with the EEprom I was able to reflash the EEprom and now it works fine..
Any suggestions as to why it got stuck in that loop??

 

[nartac]

just out of curiosity, what prompted you to reflash your eeprom? Did you just flashed your eeprom prior to bios update or something?

 

[Luckyone]

I flashed the EEprom because nothing else was working and I figured it was retaining the bug in there as it was erasing the banks when it flashed the new bios. I tried numerous drives with the same result so the EEprom had to be where the bug was. It's gonna take me forever to recreate that drive...But what the hell
At least it is working..