Only have f drive
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Only have f drive
So i softmodded using rocky5s method then cloned the drive to a 3tb drive but only selected the option to have f take up rest of space so now i have a 2084gb F drive. Am i gonna have a problem with this or do i need to reclone and do the f&g equal partition option?
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Re: Only have f drive
Definitely yes.
The FATX formatting only supports up to 1024GB using 64K clusters. If you don't reformat for equal F & G partitions of that maximum size the moment the content on your single F drive exceed that it will corrupt. Its practically guaranteed.
Use XBPartioner v1.3 or Chimp to reformat to use both F and G extended partitions.
If you go up to the 1024GB limit for each partition you will be using more HDD space than if you were using a 2TB HDD which is actually 2,000,000,000,000B about 1860GiB (2 x 930GiB) ie. you get about 180GiB space extra across the two drives.
I think those calculations are correct but the actual figures are not really important, using a 3TB HDD gives you extra space but you will still be wasting about 800GB of it.
The FATX formatting only supports up to 1024GB using 64K clusters. If you don't reformat for equal F & G partitions of that maximum size the moment the content on your single F drive exceed that it will corrupt. Its practically guaranteed.
Use XBPartioner v1.3 or Chimp to reformat to use both F and G extended partitions.
If you go up to the 1024GB limit for each partition you will be using more HDD space than if you were using a 2TB HDD which is actually 2,000,000,000,000B about 1860GiB (2 x 930GiB) ie. you get about 180GiB space extra across the two drives.
I think those calculations are correct but the actual figures are not really important, using a 3TB HDD gives you extra space but you will still be wasting about 800GB of it.