FTP Of games from Network HDD to Xbox Prob

[Rentakill]

Hi Guys.

Heres something i'm having problems with.
After FTP backedup games from a networked PC HDD to Xbox the Game does not appear correctly in the Games Directory in XBMC.
Instead of displaying an Icon for the game, i get a black File with a Controller on top Icon.
Has anyone encountered this problem ?.
I'm using FlashFXP as my FTP client.

Also, using both FlashFXP or XBMC/DVD2Xbox Filemanager i am unable to delete these corrupt games..

Any ideas ??

[freakee1]

had the same happen to a friends xbox and discovered that the e:\ partition was full (like really full) - check if your e:\ partition has files other than the standard tdata and udata in it and move it to the f: or g: partition


see if that helps



freakee

[Rentakill]

Hi Freakee1

E Partition is fine.. Plenty of capacity left.
All games are on F partition which is around 300Gb.
I had the same experience a while back with a smaller 250Gb Drive.
I have done an FTP from Xbox to Xbox and had no probs..

Another thing i did notice with previous installs, i have FTP'd games from PC to Xbox with no probs, then found that DVD2XBOX wont copy DVD games to the F games directory, even though theres stacks of capacity left..
Its as though DVD2Xbox doesnt recognise what Capacity is on F partition after an FTP transfer has been made..

Its got me beat...


Cheers

[freakee1]

Hi Freakee1

E Partition is fine.. Plenty of capacity left.
All games are on F partition which is around 300Gb.
I had the same experience a while back with a smaller 250Gb Drive.
I have done an FTP from Xbox to Xbox and had no probs..

Another thing i did notice with previous installs, i have FTP'd games from PC to Xbox with no probs, then found that DVD2XBOX wont copy DVD games to the F games directory, even though theres stacks of capacity left..
Its as though DVD2Xbox doesnt recognise what Capacity is on F partition after an FTP transfer has been made..

Its got me beat...
Cheers

have you tried downloading a more recent version of dvd2xbox?

[Micksxboxmods]

Hi Freakee1

E Partition is fine.. Plenty of capacity left.
All games are on F partition which is around 300Gb.
Cheers

Wouldn't mind betting this is your problem!

an Xbox cannot handle a single partition size greater than 256GB as it will corrupt if bigger than this size, unless you formatted in 32kb clusters.

[Rentakill]

Hi Micksxboxmods

Currently using Version 0.7.8 DVD2Xbox.
Id say your right with saying its due to me using a drive over 300Gb.
Ive never seen this before with other boxes modded out, although they have allways been using 250Gb HDDs.

As mentioned earlier, from XBOX to XBOX using DVD2Xbox File manager FTP transfer is fine..
Just when going FTP from PC to Xbox, the file becomes corrupt and unrecognisable.


Cheers

[Micksxboxmods]

Hi Micksxboxmods

Currently using Version 0.7.8 DVD2Xbox.
Id say your right with saying its due to me using a drive over 300Gb.
Ive never seen this before with other boxes modded out, although they have allways been using 250Gb HDDs.

As mentioned earlier, from XBOX to XBOX using DVD2Xbox File manager FTP transfer is fine..
Just when going FTP from PC to Xbox, the file becomes corrupt and unrecognisable.


Cheers

Yes mate, I know this will be the problem! Seen many xbox1 setup incorrectly causing this!

your best bet is to reflash with a .67 bios and reformat the HDD again(you will loose everything)

But, once done(setup properly) you will never have this happen again!

[nsdn]

Just want to point out that even with 16K clusters a partition greater than 250gig will perform perfectly normal UNTIL it is filled with more than about 250gig of data, which is why so many installers miss it, and so many people only find out when its way late.

If your drive was say only half full then there is most probably something else wrong.

Still if its only been formatted with 16K clusters then it needs to be corrected, but there may be an opportunity to FTP the good data down before you reformat. The other way of doing this is to split into a F and G partition and you can keep 16K clusters, so long as your PARTITION size is less than 250gig yr good. 250gig drives btw are fine with 16K clusters.

The only real advantage with a smaller cluster size is that the cluster size represents the smallest packet of data the drive can store, for example a 1K file will take up 16K of space on a drive with a cluster size of 16K, with 32K clusters, 32K. Some games have lots of tiny files, so in theory you could waste some space, in practice its not really significant.

For those that are interested the reason the corruption occurs in laymans terms is that the xbox can only keep track of so many clusters, if you divide 256gig by 16K then thats how many clusters the xbox can keep track of, when you fill the drive with more than 256gig of data the xbox thinks your reading OR writing cluster zero instead of cluster 372653276527 or whatever the number is, but what happens it clocks back to zero, by doubling the cluster size it means you can address physical disk partition sizes of double the size, but the actual number of addressable clusters (MBR info) remains the same.

[Rentakill]

Hi Mick / Nsdn

Thanks for the pointers.
Can confirm i have flashed my box using 4981.67 bios and gained G drive as left over partition from F drive.
Everything FTP'd over no problems, No corruptions or Glitches.

You guys are legends..

Cheers:

[Micksxboxmods]

Hi Mick / Nsdn

Thanks for the pointers.
Can confirm i have flashed my box using 4981.67 bios and gained G drive as left over partition from F drive.
Everything FTP'd over no problems, No corruptions or Glitches.

You guys are legends..

Cheers:

thats why we get paid a pittance......hey Craig?

We give too much away free...lol only joking, happy to help mate!

In turn it helps you understand how the little green box works!
Mick