USB External Hard Drive and Xbox 360

[TheCake]

Sadly both my USB external drives don't seem to compatible with the 360. When I go into "Media" and into "Music" I only get 2 options - Hard Drive and Computer.

Anyone had problems with this? I've got a Buffalo Link Station as well as a Toshiba PC World special.

Ta for any help, both work fine when connected to my PC.

 

[Dink]

i got cheappy caddy off ebay with a laptop hd in and works perfect:S

 

[TheCake]

LOL bugger!

 

[Dink]

lmao i just plugged my phone into the usb port and it's playing songs off the memory card:S:S:S

 

[sambonebs]

Sadly both my USB external drives don't seem to compatible with the 360. When I go into "Media" and into "Music" I only get 2 options - Hard Drive and Computer.

Anyone had problems with this? I've got a Buffalo Link Station as well as a Toshiba PC World special.

Ta for any help, both work fine when connected to my PC.

I'll try mine tomorrow (WD 80G USB) but I've got a feeling there's a size limit for devices connected directly to the 360. How big are the drives? Have you tried a USB Key or an MP3 player to see if it will actually detect any other devices?

 

[clio__chris]

if u have a usb stick that also works in the port.....

my 1gb stick is quite useful for moving music onto the 360

 

[TheCake]

Both 320 GB mate lol. maybe its a size issue.

 

[sambonebs]

Both 320 GB mate lol. maybe its a size issue.

Could be, my 360 is currently in it's box after having a holiday to my Mrs's house - I'll grab it out tomorrow and see what works and what don't.

 

[TheCake]

Ta fella. Hey Sam, just noticed we live in the same town. Small world mate.

 

[Dink]

if u have a usb stick that also works in the port.....

my 1gb stick is quite useful for moving music onto the 360

how do you move songs onto the 360?

 

[sambonebs]

Darth,

What's on the drives? The 360 only 'sees' Media such as music and photos so if there's none on the drive, it won't show up.

Edit: We do mate! I actually live in Leigh, but no one will have heard of that so it's easier to say Tonbridge

 

[TheCake]

Seems to be it can only read FAT32 drives and not NTFS

Edit: Music and pictures bud

 

[sambonebs]

Seems to be it can only read FAT32 drives and not NTFS

Edit: Music and pictures bud

I noticed that too, I'd guessed the drives would be FAT32 formatted. Hmmm, I'd guess it's the size issue then. The XBox.com servers seem to have fallen over so I can't check the forums there. Monkeynuts!!

 

[TheCake]

Doh. I found a thread out there about it. I can use something like knoppix (linux shell) to reformat my 320GB hard drive in FAT32 format so its not the end of the world. Obviously if I did it through Windows it would only have a max 32GB limit.

Backup contents, format, redump it back on, ta da. Shame its only music and pics vides would be nice but heyho.

 

[sambonebs]

Doh. I found a thread out there about it. I can use something like knoppix (linux shell) to reformat my 320GB hard drive in FAT32 format so its not the end of the world. Obviously if I did it through Windows it would only have a max 32GB limit.

Backup contents, format, redump it back on, ta da. Shame its only music and pics vides would be nice but heyho.

I don't have a linux box so I'd have to go the 3rd Party Format tool route - actually, that's a point - will the 360 see multiple partitions on a drive? That gets over the FAT32 limit doesn't it?

 

[TheCake]

I don't know mate but i'll find out. I have a knoppix live cd I can boot from to see how it turns out. more later.