January 6th, 2009 XBMC Total Failure F partition gone!

  • Hi All,

    XBMC 2.0.0 was playing an mp3 and stopped mid song with the visualization freezing. I restarted and got

    XBMC fatal error, cant find q:userdata/sources line 0
    starting ftp etc.

    I got in touch with the box via ftp. There is no F partition visible. As I remember the XBMC was all in F. Strangely some of it seems to be in q: but thats not how I remember it. I am specially worried about the 85g of music that I can't find. I don't want to load that lot again!

    I suppose all is not lost as XBMC still starts in a limited way and it was in the apps folder in F.

    I am not messing with it until i find out if any one else has had this problem.

    I will post more info as I poke around

    http://web.aanet.com.au/stevearm/xbmc.JPG


  • It has been running for the last 6 months. Even now xbmc is found and runs in a limited way and it is in f/apps/xbmc.

    I will get a boot disc and look at the drive.


  • It saying q: instead of f: is normal.

    Afaik its like a "virtual" drive, mapped to the contents of your XBMC folder, i guess this is to give it a universal path, so the user can chuck it wherever they like, without having to mess about with settings.

    Boot to some other dash, such as evo-x and ftp in a fresh XBMC and you should be good to go, i'd think.

    Shorty

    P.S - if you wanna poke around, i believe the error is the file in f:appsxbmcuserdatasources.xml on the first line of text (Corrupted or missing file perhaps)


  • How large was the F partition and how was it formated? If a partition is larger than 256GB, the harddrive needs to be formatted with 32k clusters. I suspect you formatted it with 16k clusters and all data is lost.


  • Well it would appear that xbmc froze and deleted sources.xml and keymap.xml In this state it didn't show F as present but showed the contents of F/apps/XBMC as in Q.

    Booting from dvd showed every thing there. I replaced sources.xml and keymap.xml and all appears well.

    What a relief!


  • I guess i'm too slow a typer... :rofl:


  • I have just booted of an evox boot dvd. Every thing is still there:)

    My system has xbmc in f/apps/xbmc. The box uses the

    Option 1 - Using the Team XBMC Shortcut.xbe (Recommended)

    to jump in as a dashboard. But it would seem that that all works. Its just that xbmc cant find q:userdata/sources. But really there is no q:

    I will research this sources.xml







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