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wes302

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« on: December 13, 2009, 08:52:00 PM »

any help would be great.
i have a simple 500gb and would like to know how to make it show up on usb in 360.
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Chaosplt

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« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2009, 11:25:00 PM »

hey man, i heard you can format it with macdrive, you format it to that mac format.. FOrgot what its called.  But if im wrong someone please correct me.
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Chaosplt

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« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2009, 01:36:00 AM »

or you could format it in Fatx .. lulz.
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« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2009, 01:37:00 AM »

HFS+ is the filesystem...

you can try fat32format.exe, but no larger files than 4gb
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wes302

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« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2009, 09:57:00 AM »

any like to programs you have had luck with?
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wes302

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« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2009, 05:46:00 AM »

QUOTE(brazen @ Dec 15 2009, 12:17 AM) View Post

I followed the instructions at http://www.ridgecrop...fat32format.htm to format a 1tb external harddrive, from a command promt within windows, for use with XBR and it worked great.

worked like a charm. thanks
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wes302

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« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2009, 04:39:00 PM »

QUOTE(dave11674 @ Dec 15 2009, 03:14 PM) View Post

wes302

what did u do then to get it working ?
ive got a freecom 160gb drive here
ive formatted it with the above method (fat32) but its not picking it up when i plug it in to the 360 ?!?
iver tired front usb ports and back ones
i press X to refresh device lsit when i plug it in but its just not showing ?!?!

any pointers mate ?

dave



some one else had that problem. put some files on the drive then try
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