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Ok, well I suppose since there's nothing wrong with the current hdd (yet), I can always get a new larger one, try installing Aurora again on the new one, reinstall my games, copy over my saves and do things without the fear of making any serious damage to any of my files. I don't think there's a solution for the music that isn't me just reimporting the music to the new hdd via the XBOX dash. Now, can anyone tell me (there is a lot of conflicting views online) if a 7200rpm drive makes a difference over a 5400? Are we talking a matter of 2-3 seconds in access times or more like 40-50 seconds?

I'll have a look around. I'm just afraid of taking this new hdd and messing up somehow. For example I don't even know what systemlink is. Is there a setup like Aurora that gives me the option for XBOX games even if they're not backwards compatible titles? Does anyone have any clue if I'm going to be able to copy over all my music that's on the hdd currently that I use in in-game music cues of my sports games? I read something recently about certain hdds being necessary for the XBOX to recognise certain DLC or updates? What is that about?

Ok, cool. The problem is, I have Aurora on there right now, saves, lots and lots of music I use in sports games and I wouldn't know how to reinstall Aurora and all the dash stuff. Right, I guess I could just copy ALL saves to a large USB flash drive (there's a lot there)

As time passes, I increasingly come back to the 360 to play games instead of dealing with so many awful games out there today. So I need more than the 120GB on my current rgh console's hdd. 1. What do I use to entirely clone my current hdd (120GB) to a new one? 2. Is this going to in any way affect the rgh on the console? 3. Is there any limit to the size of hdd I can get? 4. It would seem to me an SSD wouldn't make sense in a 360. Is that right? 5. Anything to watch out for like losing saves, etc? Thank you!

Good idea, hadn't thought about that. I'll check it out.

Thanks guys, I hooked up Aurora. Looks fantastic. Turns out there was a lot of artwork that FSD just wasn't getting for me that I'm only now seeing. I juts need to figure out how to connect my XBLA games and emulators.

Ok, cool. I've seen some videos on Youtube now. Any particular instructions for installing this since I already have FSD installed?

Ok well that sounds fantastic because honestly, I am so sick of looking at FSD. I was looking for a replacement recently when i updated the system. Are there specific instructions for installing it? Oh, and can it update my game artwork as well? Is there anything else out there worth looking at?

Well, I use FSD with links to the games on my hdd. Sorry, isn't FSD itself the game launching app?

Yes, of course. I just meant, how do you clone so that I can buy a new hdd and then clone this content that's on here already. Then I at least know the drive isn't damaged. The thing is I can't be sure this hdd isn't damaged because it's been in there for 6 years, reading and writing though mostly reading. Oh, and I found 3 more games that wouldn't boot claiming some sort of error. Had to delete them. Ok, so no benefit from SSD keeps it cheaper, you can get great deals on 1TB 2.5 hdds. With the dashlaunch, I was recently told there was nothing necessarily better than FSD or at least that no major improvements had been made in launchers in the last few years. I don't know Aurora but are there any others as well that I should look at? Keep in mind, I don't use it for audio or video media at all, just to boot games.

Ok, thanks 1. How can I check on problems with the dashlaunch settings? 2. What is the best way to clone this hdd and will the slim 360 take SSDs? Does the 360 even benefit from SSD for booting and playing games?

Has anyone had a game just completely stop working that was installed in FSD? What can cause this? Everything else on the harddrive is running fine and the last time I booted this game it played fine.

Yeah, I know, it was a complete shot in the dark to try this. Sort of pointless. I need to get another ISO.

What do you mean not bootable? They won't run if burned to a disc? I've got a game in file form, I have actually played it on my rgh by ftp-ing it over but it stopped working so I wanted to see how this game worked burned off a disc.

Is there any way to create a 360 disc from files? Do I make an ISO? Thanks

I burned one CD-RW repeatedly until I got all the music on there. By making sure I named the albums for what they'd be used, I was able to create the playlists I needed without caring that there were several 'Track 01' in the playlists. You don't see the titles of the songs in the game anyway.

Yes. Probably. When you rip a disc to the 360, the files get labelled Track 01, Track 02 etc etc etc. Do you know what happens when you then go to rip a new disc? Does it overwrite the last ones? Or does it go "Track 01(2)" "Track 02(2)" . Any idea?

Here's the one created by the program: mindex.xmi Now I can't seem to get the 360 to read my burned disc. I'll have to get back to you with the one generated by the console.

I'm only getting an .xmi file. No .ini

Ok, I'll have to make the legit one first because I deleted all the music from my 360. And then I'll make one using the tool but with maybe 50 tracks so I know it doesn't crash. Would that be useful?

Well, yes, except I have no idea what I'm looking at in the ini file.

Right, well that won't do what I'm asking for. Thanks for the help guys, I'll have to figure this out. That's fine if you can do 100, but then what happens when you do another 100. Why can't you do a mindex folder in batches and then just keep adding files to the mindex folder? Does it use the same filenames, is that why? So confusing.

Ok, so you put all the music files you want on the flash drive and then create playlists from the tracks on the drive and then those playlists will see those songs in-game from the flash drive via the 360 playlists you made? I was getting to the point that I was just gonna burn one RW disc over and over but none of the songs will have titles and I won't know which song was which to put in which playlist. I'll have one 'Track 01' for each disc burn.

Sorry guys, I'm not understanding what's funny. I'm completely missing the joke.

How many audio tracks do you do at a time? Also, I've seen with these kinds of beta applications that sometimes if you run them too many times, you get random crashes. I'll reboot and try again. Thank you!