[H]Format/Partion External Hardrive

Mickey

United States2606 Posts

May 27 2009 22:54 GMT

I tried connecting my girlfriends 500 Gigabyte SEAGATE hardrive to an XBOX360 via USB.

The XBOX360 wouldn't recognize it so after some Googling I realized that it doesn't support NTFS.

I don't want to format my girlfriends hardrive completely to FAT32, since she has a lot of files on it and because FAT32 as I've read is pretty much last generation.

My question is would I be able to use let's say ....

Use GParted to partion a certain amount of my gf's hardrive, and then format it to FAT32 in order to put some movies in there? Would the 360 recognize this partition at all?

Would that work, and note that I will be backing all my girlfriends files on my hardrive so not to initiate a disaster.
EDIT - GParted makes me burn it to a CD, are there any other programs that are just as good, but could be run stand alone on Windows?

BIG EDIT IT WORKED PERFECTLY.

TheFlashyOne

Canada450 Posts

May 27 2009 23:07 GMT

no clue, lol. but thats pretty lame from microsoft.

RaGe

Belgium9950 Posts

May 27 2009 23:11 GMT

r u sure Xbox360 doesn't support NTFS? I could somewhat understand Xbox not doing so, but the 360? I don't know anything about Xbox'es though

I mean Microsoft has stepped off FAT32 usage since Windows98..

You sure there's not just an update you need to install on your Xbox360?

caelym

United States6421 Posts

May 27 2009 23:13 GMT

start-->computer management-->disk management-->right click on drive you want to partition-->shrink-->format the new partition

Marine50

Australia1764 Posts

May 27 2009 23:21 GMT

On May 28 2009 08:11 RaGe wrote:
r u sure Xbox360 doesn't support NTFS? I could somewhat understand Xbox not doing so, but the 360? I don't know anything about Xbox'es though

I mean Microsoft has stepped off FAT32 usage since Windows98..

You sure there's not just an update you need to install on your Xbox360?

we are talking about microsoft here. They have no fucking idea what they are doing. So I wouldn't keep your hopes up.

Your best bet would be to conect your 360 with your computer using 'Windows Media Center' I think its called, then connecting your external to your computer and putting the files on to the xbox that way.

I tried to set up Windows Media Center for myself but my windows isn't legit so I couldn't.

You might find that your computers HD needs to be FAT32 to do that too. Which would be ridiculous.

T.O.P.

Hong Kong4685 Posts

May 27 2009 23:47 GMT

On May 28 2009 08:13 caelym wrote:
start-->computer management-->disk management-->right click on drive you want to partition-->shrink-->format the new partition

Do this.

klizzer

517 Posts

May 27 2009 23:54 GMT

Haha this is so funny. Fat32 doesn't support (single) files bigger than 4gb. It would be funny if any game file could take up as much

I also recommend Parted Magic for anyone who doesn't have a Linux distro and wants to partition his/her disk.

Mickey

United States2606 Posts

May 27 2009 23:57 GMT

On May 28 2009 08:13 caelym wrote:
start-->computer management-->disk management-->right click on drive you want to partition-->shrink-->format the new partition

There's no Shrink =/ I'm on XP Professional. I also find it completely ridiculousness that it doesn't support NTFS. All I want to do is watch some movies with my gf

caelym

United States6421 Posts

May 28 2009 00:34 GMT

are you sure? I'm on vista home premium, but I've seen my friend do this on xp pro many times.

GHOSTCLAW

United States17042 Posts

May 28 2009 04:35 GMT

#10

what codecs does xbox 360 support anyway?

Mickey

United States2606 Posts

May 28 2009 05:53 GMT

#11

On May 28 2009 13:35 GHOSTCLAW wrote:
what codecs does xbox 360 support anyway?

http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2007/11/30/december-2007-video-playback-faq.aspx
Basically you have to install this non-necessary update, and then you can view video files. Thanks guys for all the help =) I always appreciate it.

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