xbox360 and external HDD

[nocilah]

Hi All,

I recently decided to use my USB external HDD drive for my xbox 360, now that you can play DIVX and Xvid on your xbox.

the drive is 120Gb or something like that big and the first thing i realised is xbox only reads FAT32. Now unfortunately with windows Vista and XP you can only make FAT 32 partitions of up to 32Gb size. SO now i have a drive with many partitions.

The problem is when i plug the drive into the xbox360 it detects it and reads it fine, videos play etc however the xbox360 seems to only see the first partition?

Anyone encounter this and know of a fix or am i missing something painfully obvious?

Thanks

 

[photonman]

Gonna need to use Partition magic or a similar prog, to get the full 120gb (111gb)

 

[bwana]

I never knew you could just plug in an external hdd - is it really that simple?

On topic - if you know anyone with a Mac they'll should be able to partition it - I'm guessing a linux boot cd might also give you a similar result.

 

[photonman]

Yup, just stick in an external hdd or flash drive and voila

Divx update is a nice addition.

 

[bwana]

Yup, just stick in an external hdd or flash drive and voila

Divx update is a nice addition.

Awesome news - thanks

 

[nocilah]

Awesome news - thanks

Hi Bwana, The only restriction i know about is that you cant save xbox live content onto the drive - like downloaded demo's and vids. I have not tried this, just something i read while i was scouring the internet looking for a solution.

 

[nocilah]

Gonna need to use Partition magic or a similar prog, to get the full 120gb (111gb)

cool - have a mac at work will use that.

 

[Ewie]

Hi Bwana, The only restriction i know about is that you cant save xbox live content onto the drive - like downloaded demo's and vids. I have not tried this, just something i read while i was scouring the internet looking for a solution.

Correct - you can only have your own movies, mp3 etc on this external hard drive. no demos or anything else .

 

[sleeper]

Any device added via USB is read only - you have to get the MS memory cards to be able to store on it. Had to format my xbox drive the other day, and I sooo badly wanted to backup my saved games . My Halo was not saving any games after swapping the xbox for a new one. Formatting the drive solved the issue, but I now have to start all my games from scratch

 

[GavinMannion]

@Sleeper my dad has actually had that exact same problem and formatting worked but it was only a temporary solution. I eventually swapped his Xbox out and so far so good.

 

[BCO]

Your dad has an xbox? Cool.

 

[GavinMannion]

lol my dad had the original Xbox as well...

He now has the Halo 3 mongoose Edition... I think he has played more Bioshock, Halo (1,2,3) and Rainbow 6 than me....

 

[Highflyer_GP]

Wait whose mom was into boxing games?