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Title: How Do I Get This To Work?
Post by: electpoopie on January 11, 2006, 04:12:00 PM

ok I've got an external 80gb hdd and i wanna use it on my xbox 360 but its not workin...and yes it turned on

Title: How Do I Get This To Work?
Post by: hamwbone on January 11, 2006, 07:06:00 PM

what are you trying to accomplish?

Title: How Do I Get This To Work?
Post by: mitch2025 on January 11, 2006, 08:28:00 PM

you cant. the only thing you can use an external USB HDD for is MP3s and pics. it wont work like the retail xbox 360 HDD

Title: How Do I Get This To Work?
Post by: mgamer20o0 on January 11, 2006, 11:47:00 PM

i have seen guides for this. dont have the link right now. you have to format it to fat32 file system (right?) xp cant format that big of a drive so you have to use a program Partition Magic to formate it or use win98. once again like mitch2025 said you can only put music and pics. it prob be best to put the hard drive in your comp and stream it over your network.


http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/mods/USB%20H...Drive%20Mod.htm

link for info on usb hard drive.

This post has been edited by mgamer20o0: Jan 12 2006, 07:48 AM

Title: How Do I Get This To Work?
Post by: TheMuffinMan on January 12, 2006, 12:43:00 AM

Plug in hard drive to usb port

Turn on hard drive

done.

NTFS works as that's how i format all my things, some external drives need the hdd to be set on master or CS to work

Title: How Do I Get This To Work?
Post by: ferrari_rulz_02 on January 12, 2006, 01:40:00 AM

well according to the llamma page, it has to be FAT, not NTFS

Title: How Do I Get This To Work?
Post by: ollie40 on January 12, 2006, 04:27:00 PM

I will give it a go does it have to be usb v2.0 or any version of usb.

Title: How Do I Get This To Work?
Post by: ferrari_rulz_02 on January 13, 2006, 12:14:00 AM

QUOTE(ollie40 @ Jan 13 2006, 09:58 AM)

I will give it a go does it have to be usb v2.0 or any version of usb.

eitehr USB 1.1 or 2.0 will work, its just that 2.0 will be a lot faster. you may not notice it that much just looking at pictures and playing music though. Id still get a USB 2.0 one.