Xbox Wont Detect My External Hard Drive.

Kanney · 01-01-2008 6:33pm #1

I have a Seagate 500GB. It says it is NTFS. It wont detect on my 360. I dont know why. I have all the updates... Anyone have any ideas? Want to play videos off it. Please any help would be appreciated.

Pacifico · 01-01-2008 6:34pm

NTFS is not supported by the 360. It needs to be FAT 32

Ri_Nollaig · 01-01-2008 6:40pm

by the way, you will need some third party tool like partition magic to format from ntfs to fat32.

Kanney · 02-01-2008 12:01pm

Does Partition Magic format without losing data?

Kanney · 02-01-2008 4:01pm

Got it working. Anyone have a similar problem do the following.
I had to format the External Hard drive to HFS+ format. It is described well in this tutorial, luckily the hdd that this tutorial used is the exact same as mine. But I'm sure its the same with all.
Now to copy back all my videos to my hdd so I can use them on the 360!! Yips!

Tutorial Link: http://www.360-hq.com/xbox-tutorials-60.html
Any problems PM me.

Oirthir · 02-01-2008 4:37pm

HFS+? That's random, it's the Apple File Format...

Pacifico · 02-01-2008 4:39pm

It doesn't have the limitations of FAT 32, like filesize and disk size limit. Odd that the 360 can use it though...

Xbox Wont Detect My External Hard Drive.

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