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Optimist   01-29-2008 at 02:40:06 PM

This is a rather short question, and im a bit unsure if this is the right place to ask it. but i guess i will get pointed in the right direction if it isnt. :D

Anyway, my question is why did microsoft chose to use FAT32 insted of NTFS filesytem on thier XBOX 360.





Message edited by Optimist on 01-29-2008 at 02:41:23 PM
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STEMNIN   01-29-2008 at 03:23:56 PM
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probably the OS in the xbox wasn't designed for it.

I wondered this myself a long time ago..


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Optimist   01-29-2008 at 06:34:54 PM
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Without knowing this for a fact, i whould beleve that they whould have used thier windows core to some extend.

Also if the system can suppert USB which is a newer tech, it should also support NTFS, althought i think it all comes down to driver in the end. or so i whould beleave.

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Optimist   01-30-2008 at 12:58:19 PM
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Ok thank you, well ive read the link you posted, and its still basicly FAT32 in sense. the problem im having with this is it only supports files upto 4GB, where NTFS whould have supported files much bigger than that.

Anyways thanks.

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Optimist   01-30-2008 at 01:06:45 PM
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Well i found this

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Format Any External USB HDD for Xbox 360
Published by ozzy on 2007-12-05
Category: Custom USB Devices | Page Views: 3032

Introduction
This tutorial will explain how to format a External HDD drive into the HFS+ Format and enable it to be used on the XBOX 360 for viewing HD WMV, DivX, XviD, Mp3's and other supported content of any size. No longer is there a 4GB file size limit like FAT32.

Required Software:
- MacDrive 7.0 (trial does not work)

For this tutorial i am going to format my "SEAGATE Freeagent Desktop" 500gb USB External HDD from NTFS to HFS+.

Let's Get Started
1. Download Macdrive 7.0.
2. Install Macdrive onto your PC.
3. Restart Your PC.
4. Start "Macdrive" by clicking the icon from the start menu or desktop.
5. Click on format and repair mac disk.
6. Tick modify Mac volumes than choose "Next".
7. Click on the external usb hard drive than click on initialize disk
8. Click on "free space" then "new volume".
9. Name the drive .
10. Make sure format is Mac OS Extended (HFS+).
11. Press ok .

That's it. Your drive is now formatted ready for use with your Xbox 360.

Now you are ready to copy xvid/divx to drive and play your own HD content on the Xbox 360.
Thanks must go to forahobby (hobbs) for walking me through the process.

Hope this helps out all you guys wanting to watch your movies, music videos etc on your xbox 360 with the new divx and xvid codecs now supported.

UPDATE:
For now you will need to buy macdrive because once the trial runs out you can't access your files on the drive. Just remember if your USB HDD is FAT32 it should work just fine this tutorial is only to break the 4GB filesize limit.

HQ OZZY

Related URL: 360-Hq.Com Official Topic



from http://www.360-hq.com/xbox-tutorials-60.html

which as it says should break the 4GB barrier, however i havnt tested it yet so dont realy know if it works, but it was what ive was looking for.

Thanks

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