firstly guys i have done a lot of digging with our friend google and fail to find an answer.
the problem i have is i hook up the drive (hitachi 60g jun 08)to my pc to view with explorer360 and it see's the part0,2,3 i can see what is in 2 but no others so i tried xport360 i can see part2 the same nothing in part3 and some ascii rubish in part1 with extremley weird dates ie 02/09/2067 this is hooked up to a via card if i use my on board ich7 ide based controllers i cant see the drive and if i use my scsi based sil0112 i cant see it either.
i need to back up part3 to transfer it to my 120g hdd anyone had probs like this an maybe shed some light on the subject.
also i should mention i can view the 120g and see everything this is aug 07 hitachi hdd
i'm also using up to date application's
thanks in advance.
Try a VIA card or a chip set that is known to be supported and compatible.
I'm not familiar with the 360 partition type's, however, I'm going to offer, IMHO, what I would do.
I would start by booting into a *nix environment with the hard drive connected and running (as root) an fdisk -l. This will give you some more info on the partition type.
If that doesn't help:
Try flashing the hard drive to work with the 360 and (as root) doing an fdisk -l and identifying the hardware address of your 360 hdd (if no other SATA hard drives are connected it will be /dev/sda). I would then do (as root) dd if=/dev/sda (or whatever fdisk says your hardware address is) of=/dev/sdb (new harddrive address).
If you disconnect all hard drives and then connect only the original hard drive to the on-board SATA, then after the boot-up sequence has finished and you are at a GUI, connect the new (120 GB), already flashed hard drive you would run:
sudo fdisk -l
Look for the one that says 60 GB (should be /dev/sda)
Look for the one that says 120 GB (should be /dev/sdb)
then run
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
MAKE SURE if= IS YOUR ORIGINAL DRIVE AND of= IS THE NEW DRIVE AND NOT THE ORIGINAL!
As long as you don't mix up your drives', nothing will happen to your original.
In order for that to work you would have to have something mounted at /media/disk/ that is larger than your hard drive. A byte by byte copy is uncompressed, and therefore, the same exact size as the original device (not partition, device).
This will do a byte by byte copy of the input file (if) to the output file (of) including all partitions (tables and headers) and data.
If the 360 doesn't recognize it as a 120 GB you might have to "extend" the partition (grow it).
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