XBox Hard Drive - How much can it hold?

JackB1 · Post by **JackB1** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 1:36 pm

I have been copying lots of CD's to my xbox to use for custom soundtracks and was wondering how much room there is on the
hard drive? Is there a way to tell how much room is left also?

James_E · Post by **James_E** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 2:31 pm

some xboxes have 10GB HD, some have 8GB HD.

The ones that have 10GB might be setup so that you can only use 8GB, unless you change the bios... I don't know.

I've read that there are around 500,000 blocks of memory on the 8GB disk, around 610000 blocks of memory on the 10GB disk.

Apparently there is around 62.5 memory blocks/megabyte.

The above info is all pulled from various places on the net. I cannot vouch for the validity of it all...

bayousooner · Post by **bayousooner** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 4:02 pm

How do you change the BIOS?

James_E · Post by **James_E** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 4:35 pm

Changing the BIOS takes you down the road of modding your Xbox, something with which I am not that familiar. I think if you google "xbox mods" or something you'll find out.

www.xbox-scene.com is a good place to start.

Murph · Post by **Murph** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 4:42 pm

Some interesting facts about the Xbox hard drive:

All Xbox games use the HD for caching.

On a factory standard Xbox drive, there are 5 partitions.

Partition C is 500 MB. It is the boot partition and is exclusively reserved for the dashboard.

Partitions X, Y, and Z are each 750 MB. They are exclusively reserved for game data caching for the 3 most recently played games.

Partition E takes up the remainder of the physical hard disk drive and is used for soundtracks, game expansion packs, downloads, and saved game data.

bayousooner · Post by **bayousooner** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:09 pm

Not interested in modding my xbox, but thanks for the info.

Parker · Post by **Parker** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:33 pm

Interestingly, in a recent development, you can now backup and play games from a PS2 hard drive using the network adapter. Of course, you would want to use a bigger hard drive than the standard PS2 one, but this is even more easily installed than with the Xbox. People with ps2s that have bad lasers may find this a very useful development.