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cameron_in_oz Nov 17, 2002, 10:06 PM Anyone know if anyone is working on a disk defrag tool for the xbox yet ...
I loaded 3500 mame roms onto my harddisk yesterday, plus a few gigs worth of games ..
If I decided to take some of that off ... my disk is going to be in a bit of a mess ...
anyone heard anything yet??
Slomar Feb 17, 2003, 07:59 AM I did a search on this topic and its the newest post. I'm not familiar with all the new utils so I figure I'd just bring this back up. Any way to do this yet?
Jaymus Feb 17, 2003, 02:35 PM Nothing out yet as of yet. I also loaded tons of roms on mine, it's not a big deal since I play games off DVD. Just the mame ones I want fast access to.
saintgames Feb 17, 2003, 05:10 PM Ah yes, this is why I asked if you could just delete files the other day. I'll keep my eyes peeled.
Jaice Feb 17, 2003, 07:35 PM Hook it up to your PC and defrag it
toofan Feb 18, 2003, 06:05 AM jaice....can u defrag the xbox hardisk when u connect it to ur pc?? without it being fat32/ntfs system?
Game Master Feb 18, 2003, 06:44 AM im not a genius on this topic but with what little info ive gathered i think i've come to a few conclusions. the xbox hard drive cannot be read under windows without a swap solution, meaning it has to be unlocked by the xbox then attached to the pc. the hard drive cannot be written to succesfully, atleast not that i know of. i've heard of a linux based program that is able to write to the drive but i've yet to figure it out. even with the program running, there is no defrag tool with it, its pretty much a straight forward save and drive editing tool. sorry to disappoint and please, i'd love to be wrong because my xbox runs music a little rugged at times during tony hawk
deniro-s Feb 18, 2003, 08:49 AM what if you map your xbox hard drive as a windows drive? I remember seeing a post on how to do this, maybe you could map it as a network drive and then run a normal defrag program? Is this what you're talking about Jaice?
PUNKASS76 Feb 18, 2003, 11:26 AM i think theres a guide in xbox-scene on reading your xbox drive in windows explorer
Jaice Feb 18, 2003, 09:21 PM Yeah, there is
toofan Feb 19, 2003, 01:13 AM the things is that for defraging windows maps the different types of files on dive, like system files, unremovable files, etc, Its just odd that windows would recognize the filesystem/type of xbox.
deniro-s Feb 19, 2003, 11:10 AM so defragging a mapped drive should be ok? I asked about defraggin way back in June, but there was no way to do it then, and I don't want to screw up everything on my hard drive if something goes wrong. Anyone successfully defraged their HD yet?
old_engineer Feb 21, 2003, 03:29 PM Hi
Waste of time Defragging the Xbox.
....Its not like a normal P.C, It can't multi-thread lots of applications at once.
It fires up, it can run an application or game and thats it, if you don't believe me try playing a game and FTP at the same time, it's impossible.
...In other words there is very little HDD thrashing in the Xbox that the in-built FAT/processor/DDRAM/Win2k Kernal combination can't handle.
Defragging goes back to DOS days when P.C architecture was slow, it's virtually redundant nowaday's.
...By the way the Xbox uses a unique filing system(XDFS), not compatable with a P.C, so you can't put the HDD in your P.C to defrag, cos it won't let you.
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