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Posts by Eaton
Comment responding delay
April 1, 2021
by Eaton
Jan 21, 2022 Update: This finally appears to have been resolved.
Over the past few months there have been significant problems with new comment email notifications. As a result, some comments made in the past ~3 months may have gone unanswered.
The comment queue will now be reviewed manually [...]
FATXplorer 3.0 beta 12 – new disk health checker, memory and deletion fixes
January 22, 2021
by Eaton
FATXplorer 3.0 beta 12 is out now and brings with it a new feature and various fixes.
New Feature: Disk Health Checker
Beta 12 utilizes a new API introduced in Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update) to check disk health/status. FATXplorer will now tell you whether your disk is healthy or not, [...]
FATXplorer 3.0 Beta Program Update
December 25, 2020
by Eaton
It has been several months since FATXplorer 3.0 Beta 1 was released and since then, more than a thousand people from all over the world have given it a try! Before the year comes to an end, I thought I would give an update on how things are going.
Beta Program Statistics
In the past 90 [...]
OG Xbox F & G Drive Help Article
November 3, 2020
by Eaton
A new KB article has been posted: OG Xbox F & G Drive Help
Many beta testers have written in asking why FATXplorer doesn’t handle their F drive correctly. After investigating each case, 3 primary problems have been identified. Read the above-linked article for detailed descriptions of these [...]
FATXplorer 3.0 beta 4 – write support and a new level of performance
June 17, 2020
by Eaton
The moment everyone has been waiting for has finally arrived: full read/write support for original Xbox devices! With FATXplorer 3.0 beta 4, you can mount any partition on your original Xbox HDD or MU and explore it like you would as if you plugged in an external USB drive.
It has taken a while [...]
FATXplorer 3.0 beta now available!
March 28, 2020
by Eaton
FATXplorer 3.0 beta launches today and is available for download right now.
Emails will soon roll out to customers and those who have expressed interest.
Beta information and download links
Original Xbox support in action!
February 9, 2020
by Eaton
At long last, original Xbox support in FATXplorer is in a very usable state! Below is a video showcasing the mounting of my HDD image, and the mounting of a HDD image that has a custom partition table on it that someone generously provided. This is being done on a Windows 7 VM – even though [...]
Updated backwards compatibility files
December 10, 2019
by Eaton
The backwards compatibility package hosted on the site has been updated with the latest April 2018 title update, and a few unnecessary files have been removed. Click to download – install instructions are included in the readme.
FATXplorer 3.0 – UI Sneak Peek
November 19, 2019
by Eaton
Work on the base UI for FATXplorer 3.0 has recently finished for the upcoming beta and should closely resemble what will eventually be released as the final product. The UI has been completely redone to give FATXplorer a more modern look and to work well with high resolution displays, while also [...]
FATXplorer 3.0 – 2019 Progress Update
September 12, 2019
by Eaton
Hi everyone, it’s been a while since the last update, so I wanted to provide an update on where things are.
Original Xbox Support
The hype around this feature is real and it’s really cool how the OG Xbox scene has come back to life. It’s important to me that original Xbox support is as [...]