USB HDD on 360?

[magicalbeef]

i want to use my usb hdd to watch video files off. i created a partition using partition magic to make a fat 32 partition, but xbox doesnt recognise the hdd, any ideas? i wanna use it to watch avi's etc as i cant be bothered setting up a media sharing connection

 

[sniggyfish]

you have to farmat the hdd as mac using software install on windows and you can acess the mac hdd on your pc and 360 (cant remember the software but their is another thread on this topic on here ,just do sum searching)............................





ACTUALY just remebered you want app called macdrive///

 

[magicalbeef]

why do i need to format the drive as a mac drive? i thought the 360 supported windows drives? i just thought they had to be in fat 32 format?

 

[hawkish]

why do i need to format the drive as a mac drive? i thought the 360 supported windows drives? i just thought they had to be in fat 32 format?

Thats true - the problem lies with files over 4GB in size - FAT32 wont do it, but HFS+ (the mac standard) will - xbox likes both

 

[magicalbeef]

can i [partition the drive to be half and half? as i dont wanna lose the content

 

[hawkish]

can i [partition the drive to be half and half? as i dont wanna lose the content

Had a look on my macdrive prog and it only gives me the option to format the whole thing - sorry mate. maybe you can borrow a mates ext hdd for the changeover

 

[Purity]

Had a look on my macdrive prog and it only gives me the option to format the whole thing - sorry mate. maybe you can borrow a mates ext hdd for the changeover

Us PS3 users have overcome this problem already

https://www.digitalworldz.co.uk/index.php?threads/161858/

You'll still have issues with files over 4 gig though

 

[hawkish]

Us PS3 users have overcome this problem already

https://www.digitalworldz.co.uk/index.php?threads/161858/

You'll still have issues with files over 4 gig though

Nice work Purity (sneaky dig too! lol)

Can you use media files over 4gb on your larger fat32 partition (i.e wmvhd stuff is >4GB) I dont think its possible, hence the HFS+ method.

 

[magicalbeef]

cheers for the advice guys, thing is i only want to play avis etc, nothig bigger than 1.6gb a file, but it still doenst find them, any ideas??

 

[hawkish]

try running them through transcode360 it should sort the files - will be quick for avi's too. Also see if you can update the dashboard as I believe support for AVI has improved recently

 

[magicalbeef]

cheers for the quick reply, dash is up to date. wierd thing is i can run avis off my usb stick, but when i plug in the usb hdd, it doesnt come up to let me select it, as though the drive isnt compatible, but ive deffo put a 60gb FAT32 partition on, and shot some mighty boosh on just to test, just not having any of it

 

[jedi_ringo]

Mac Drive those huge files

You need a PC program call Mac Drive
This will allow the 360 and PS3 to see and read larger files of a external drive
like those lovely 8-9Gb WMV files that Novo do!!!!

 

[magicalbeef]

i dont actually want to view large files tho, less than 2gb each. is there anyway i can get it sorted without formatting?