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[celinedrules]

You cant use a USB hard drive. When the Xbox formats it it sets it to use it as a giant memory card.

[lordvader129]

QUOTE(pinkdoggy @ Mar 13 2006, 12:07 PM)

There is another thread about this but it seems to have died  

If it were to be formatted as a massive memory card, could games be stored and launched from it from a dash?

no, games cant be launched from a memory card, as most games dont have the ability to read memory cards

besides, usb 1.1 is waaaaaaay to slow to play a game off of

[lordvader129]

QUOTE(pinkdoggy @ Mar 13 2006, 12:27 PM)

I wonder how much work it would be to modify a BIOS to allow running games from a NAS drive (hard drive that connects directly to a network, so could connect at 100Mbps to the XBOX Ethernet port)

wouldnt work too well either, same speed issues might arise, plus the fact that no game has the right protocols to read from a remote drive, and the CPU doesnt multitask, so you can run any app to maintain the connections

[TKramka]

QUOTE(pinkdoggy @ Mar 13 2006, 01:37 PM)

But it might still be a bit slow.

A bit?  The internal IDE bus is faster than USB 1.1...

[mrdan]

Sorry pal. ATA is in megabytes, whereas networks are in megabits.

100 megabits = 12.5 megabytes

[pinkdoggy]

Oh yeah

Shame xboxes don't have PCMCIA slots!

[xboxduox2]

QUOTE(rwf14 @ Mar 11 2006, 11:34 PM)

So I have a 40 GB external HD and I formatted it recently on my PC.  I then hooked it to my xbox via a 2.0 usb connection but when on my xbox it says the drive needs reformatted.  I tried to reformat it thru my xbox but it wont let me.  What should be done or what would you do with this problem??  

I almost want to do the same thing, but I like the external disk (200Gb) as a storage disk, to move games from xbox to xbox.

Does anyone know how to format it ?

[JrracinFan8]

QUOTE(rwf14 @ Mar 11 2006, 05:34 PM)

So I have a 40 GB external HD and I formatted it recently on my PC.  I then hooked it to my xbox via a 2.0 usb connection but when on my xbox it says the drive needs reformatted.  I tried to reformat it thru my xbox but it wont let me.  What should be done or what would you do with this problem??  

QUOTE(celinedrules @ Mar 13 2006, 12:55 PM)

You cant use a USB hard drive. When the Xbox formats it it sets it to use it as a giant memory card.

Right now are you using a G partition? Could try to format the drive as one big G partition through XBPartitioner but not to sure it would work. But not sure how valid my statement is and on the downside it would be running on usb 1.1 so it would very very slow like a snail.

[xboxduox2]

QUOTE(JrracinFan8 @ Mar 15 2006, 01:03 AM)

Right now are you using a G partition? Could try to format the drive as one big G partition through XBPartitioner but not to sure it would work. But not sure how valid my statement is and on the downside it would be running on usb 1.1 so it would very very slow like a snail.

Speed is not the issue, the xbox recognizes the drive as J:L: or N: depending on which controllerport it is connected.
The boot-disk I use, only has format-options through G:

So I'm looking for a pgm that formats higher drives.

frank

[lordvader129]

QUOTE(xboxduox2 @ Mar 14 2006, 01:35 PM)

I almost want to do the same thing, but I like the external disk (200Gb) as a storage disk, to move games from xbox to xbox.

Does anyone know how to format it ?

plug it in and launch the MS dash, it will format it automaticlaly if its compatible, if nits not it will just say its damaged