Solved.. Alright guys.. I finally got my G drive to show and take up the slack 60 some gigs or so.. and the F is free and clear..
I patched the bios (M8_16) with the large disc support patch.. reflashed.. didn't work.. Still couldn't see the items on the F: disc..
Thanks to rms2001 for this link.. was a life saver..
http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/hdd-ftp.php
In short you have to format your G: (after patching with LBA48 support via EVTools) and I don't think it would be completely necessary but they go into also formatting the E: drive to fix errors with online enabled games. Freezing and things of that nature..
This was all apparently due to a few little bugs in the built in formatter for the Xenium OS2.. (which I still really like)
Anyway once you get by that problem (for those with 137 gig and above drives) everything else is a breeze.
This was also helpful
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.p...&#entry1641972