Xbox Hard Disk Filesystem Contents

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· 21 Feb 2024

written by Michael Steil, 8 May 2002

An Xbox that has never played a game or imported an audio CD has the following files on its hard disk volumes:

0 Game Cache 1

/XMTAXBOX.XBE 1347584

Total: 1,347,584
This partition will be deleted when a game is run. The meaning of this file is unknown.

1 Game Cache 2

empty

Amazingly, although there are no directory entries, there is a lot of binary data on this partition. Its bzip2-compressed size is about 150 MB.

2 Game Cache 3

`/BUFFER.IN`	32768
`/FFT.IN`	286720

Total: 319,488
The meaning of these files is unknown. This partition has a compressed size of more than 7 MB, it also contains additional (unused?) data.

3 System Files

`/Audio`	<DIR>
`/AmbientAudio`	<DIR>
`/AMB_05_ENGINEROOM_LR.wav`	5562348
`/AMB_06_COMMUNICATION_LR.wav`	5412228
`/AMB_12_HYDROTHUNDER_LR.wav`	6447588
`/AMB_EC_Pinger1.wav`	1259412
`/AMB_EC_Steam1.wav`	656484
`/AMB_EC_Steam2.wav`	943836
`/AMB_EC_Steam3.wav`	516156
`/AMB_EC_Steam4.wav`	746556
`/AMB_EC_Steam5.wav`	737340
`/AMB_EC_Steam6.wav`	534588
`/AMB_EC_Steam7.wav`	1021884
`/AMB_EC_Voices1.wav`	307932
`/AMB_EC_Voices10.wav`	525372
`/AMB_EC_Voices11.wav`	313404
`/AMB_EC_Voices12.wav`	672828
`/AMB_EC_Voices13.wav`	362580
`/AMB_EC_Voices2.wav`	307644
`/AMB_EC_Voices3.wav`	695292
`/AMB_EC_Voices4.wav`	521916
`/AMB_EC_Voices5.wav`	292092
`/AMB_EC_Voices6.wav`	709692
`/AMB_EC_Voices7.wav`	502332
`/AMB_EC_Voices8.wav`	313404
`/AMB_EC_Voices9.wav`	691260
`/comm static 1.wav`	39012
`/comm static 2.wav`	71052
`/comm static 3.wav`	104172
`/comm static 4.wav`	93948
`/comm voice 1.wav`	189636
`/comm voice 2.wav`	196116
`/comm voice 3.wav`	241044
`/comm voice 4.wav`	69036
`/comm voice 5.wav`	116484
`/comm voice 6.wav`	83796
`/comm voice 7.wav`	81852
`/comm voice 8.wav`	178620
`/comm voice 9.wav`	110076
`/Control Room Loop ver2.wav`	543732
`/Control Room Loop.wav`	541860
`/MainAudio`	<DIR>
`/Global A Button Select.wav`	18708
`/Global B Button Back.wav`	18708
`/Global Completion Beep.wav`	12012
`/Global Delete_Destroy.wav`	41820
`/Global Error Message B.wav`	14964
`/Global Keyboard Stroke 1.wav`	7044
`/Global Keyboard Stroke 2.wav`	11220
`/Global Main MenuBack3ver2.wav`	32892
`/Global Main MenuFwd3ver2.wav`	24108
`/Global Progress Bar.wav`	235356
`/Global Scroll Beep.wav`	1572
`/MemoryAudio`	<DIR>
`/Memory Controller Select.wav`	15828
`/Memory Games Select.wav`	45348
`/Memory Memory Slot Select.wav`	12084
`/MusicAudio`	<DIR>
`/Games Info Screen In MSurr.wav`	63348
`/Games Info Screen In.wav`	63348
`/Games Info Screen Out MSurr.wav`	71052
`/Games Info Screen Out.wav`	5964
`/Music CD Select.wav`	30300
`/SettingsAudio`	<DIR>
`/Settings Lang SubMenu Sel.wav`	161340
`/Settings Parent SubMenu Sel.wav`	21372
`/TransitionAudio`	<DIR>
`/Games Main Menu In_LR.wav`	72132
`/Games Main Menu Out_LR.wav`	75444
`/Games Sub Menu In_LR.wav`	74220
`/Games Sub Menu Out_LR.wav`	83148
`/Music Main Menu In_LR.wav`	53484
`/Music Main Menu Out_LR.wav`	51036
`/Music Select Track In_LR.wav`	68388
`/Music Select Track Out_LR.wav`	68100
`/Settings Main Menu In_LR.wav`	188844
`/Settings Main Menu Out_LR.wav`	159252
`/Settings Sub Menu In_LR.wav`	97908
`/Settings Sub Menu Out_LR.wav`	60468
`/default.xip`	1513422
`/dvd.xip`	166994
`/jkeyboard.xip`	732584
`/Keyboard.xip`	657751
`/mainmenu5.xip`	2283130
`/Memory2.xip`	2218385
`/memory_files2.xip`	2619139
`/Message.xip`	801448
`/music2.xip`	2007608
`/music_copy3.xip`	1618611
`/Music_PlayEdit2.xip`	2593571
`/settings3.xip`	2808774
`/settings_adoc.xip`	4191816
`/Settings_Clock.xip`	1684138
`/settings_language.xip`	1425470
`/settings_list.xip`	2928702
`/settings_panel.xip`	2732966
`/settings_parental.xip`	1008374
`/settings_timezone.xip`	1371179
`/settings_video.xip`	1978182
`/XBox Book.xtf`	17068868
`/Xbox.xtf`	15613736
`/xboxdash.xbe`	1394036