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Sandm4n   12-05-2007 at 11:52:10 AM

Does the Xbox 360 support USB Hard-drive devices?

I have a Western Digital MYBOOK 500gb External USB Hard-drive (NTFS formatted)

My Xbox 360 Doesnt seem to recognise it though =/ =(

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Andydigital   12-05-2007 at 12:38:55 PM
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The Xbox 360 only supports FAT32 formatted drives. My laptop HDD drive enclosure works fine with it playing movies etc.


Message edited by Andydigital on 12-05-2007 at 12:41:34 PM
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San   12-06-2007 at 06:15:46 PM
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So can you use any USB harddrive as long as it is FAT32 format? That would be nice if its possible because I think the 360 harddrive is way overprice

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RickHere   03-08-2009 at 11:42:24 PM
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So FAT32 does not support files larger than 4GB, many of my HD movies are larger than 4GB. When will MS Xbox get with the program and support NTFS, there own OS format as other already do?

Isn't there a update for the Xbox360 that gives this support?

FAT32 is OLD.

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Anonymous   04-25-2009 at 07:58:59 AM
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download easeus partition manager and reformat the hard drive and make sure you format it PRIMARY. whether its fat32 or ntfs shouldnt make a difference. the xbox wont recognize it if its not a primary drive

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Anonymous   05-31-2009 at 12:25:23 AM
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for me i use swiffnife its eazy download it its free run it select the drive you want to for maat then select left above partition or quick fomat set to fat1ยง left above look down select delete wen delete then you press create exit the programe done :wahoo:

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Anonymous   05-31-2009 at 12:29:41 AM
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compuApps SWISSNIFE V3

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Stigster   06-17-2009 at 08:24:22 PM
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So, will I be able to save my games to the usb drive?

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Anonymous   06-21-2009 at 04:07:42 AM
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to my knowlege I would say no you can only save the save data to a item that has been made by microsoft or if it was a spoof of another xbox 360 hard drive as if i remember from game saving they have a device id number. You can use it to run movies ect if they in the correct format the xbox 360 reads. Many years ago I used a mp3 player to play music video on my 360 and I think that was MPEG format not avi files. I dont know if any future updates may have changed this.

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will_chellam   06-21-2009 at 04:54:24 PM
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yep last year the 4cc (divx/xvid) update came out - it asks if you want to install it the first time you try to play an avi

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doakwolf   08-17-2009 at 11:36:08 AM
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Hi guys,

I don't have Xbox live - can I still play AVIs on the 360 or do I need to subscribe to Xbox live in order to download the update as mentioned above?

If so, I sense my 360 is about to get traded in for a PS3.

Cheers,
Jero.

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