Fygar Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Hi all - new to forum Just soft modded my xbox and tried upgrading hdd with a 160Gb Seagate DB35.2.Loaded latest XBMC as dashboard and everything tested fine with the Seagate. Now to add some software - Copied my Big Ass Emulator Disk to E: & FBL to F: When I launched emulators I could see both of the above but they were showing up as 0 bytes and consequently wouldn't launch. After scratching my head for a bit I changed the hdd for an 80Gb Maxtor and everything is running fine. So I presume the Seagate is an incompatible drive (although doesn't show up on list of known drives doc). Is there any way of getting the Seagate working - does anyone have any knowledge of XBpartitioner and whether that would work. Any help would be much appreciated as feel like I just wasted £20 on drive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Hi all - new to forum Just soft modded my xbox and tried upgrading hdd with a 160Gb Seagate DB35.2.Loaded latest XBMC as dashboard and everything tested fine with the Seagate. Now to add some software - Copied my Big Ass Emulator Disk to E: & FBL to F: When I launched emulators I could see both of the above but they were showing up as 0 bytes and consequently wouldn't launch. After scratching my head for a bit I changed the hdd for an 80Gb Maxtor and everything is running fine. So I presume the Seagate is an incompatible drive (although doesn't show up on list of known drives doc). Is there any way of getting the Seagate working - does anyone have any knowledge of XBpartitioner and whether that would work. Any help would be much appreciated as feel like I just wasted £20 on drive!That's really odd... Speaking from just a PC user here, as I never upgraded my XBOX drive... did you run memtest diagnostics on it? How did you transfer the files over to the drive.. via FTP or when it was connected to the desktop? Is it supposed to be formatted in NTFS, FAT32, or FAT? Hopefully my questions for you will help you solve this problem you are having. I am sorry I can not be of more assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jitway Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) A lot of Seagate drives are not compatible with XBox. I would say that is the problem. Try a Western Digital they work the best in my opinion. Edited March 28, 2012 by Jitway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emu Newbie Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 I've had good luck with both WD's and Seagate's, but it def. could be the model type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggyte Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Download HDtune, (does not have to be the pro version) Click the info tab and see if there is a tick by security mode, if not you are out of luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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