Gaming Can I plug an External Hard Disk?

[TheTwoR's]

Thanks to all who answered.

Now I know I'm getting over-frustrated about this but JUST to make sure I wouldn't go and spend a good $40 on nothing:
I could just go and buy this.
Then I take the housing shell off.
Then I shove it in the Xbox as shown in the video on the previous page and...
That's it? Suddenly more capacity? Am I missing something? xP

 

[TheTwoR's]

No, if it's NTFS. Format it as FAT32 and it works

At the moment, I don't have any internal hard disk to use in the Xbox.
I plugged in an external 300 GB one, and it only let my use 16 GB of it. It was formatted as NTFS.
And again, I came back to this thread and saw your post.
I formatted it is FAT32 but when you plug it in the Xbox it formats it again for you, in its own way, which then, I can only use 16 GB of.
Help me pleaaassseeee

What can I do to use all of the 300 GB in my 300 GB external hard disk?

(Note: I'm not gonna JTAG or hack or whatever - my console

, so pleaase help.)
Plzkthx

 

[hundshamer]

You can't sorry.

 

[dilav]

Thanks to all who answered.

Now I know I'm getting over-frustrated about this but JUST to make sure I wouldn't go and spend a good $40 on nothing:
I could just go and buy this.
Then I take the housing shell off.
Then I shove it in the Xbox as shown in the video on the previous page and...
That's it? Suddenly more capacity? Am I missing something? xP

That's a hard drive.. what shell? if you take it apart, you will ruin it . That drive will work but you will need to run hddhackr on it, and can only use 250GB atm. so it would be wise to buy a 250GB wd drives with models hundshamer listed or buy the 500 and wait until m$ releases a bigger HDD, then you can upgrade it to what m$ supports with hddhackr. External will only work up to 16GB, unless jtagged. To jtag you need a dash 7371 or lower.

 

[kylehboc]

Hey all.
I'm gonna preorder this when I get the money.

But I noticed that the 250 GB is too expensive, so I'm thinking of getting the 4GB one.
Here's the thing though,
I'll only get it if there's a way I can plug a 250 GB hard disk in it and use it like the HDD that's in the Xbox.
I've never touched an Xbox before, but I know it's really good so I'm getting one.
Yeah whatever.
My question was if I can plug a 250 GB external hard disk and use it normally. (I don't even know if the Xbox has a USB slot.)

So umm... I appreciate your help and thanks

I am 100% certain that you can, including installing games to and playing as such, I can confirm. Up to 16 GB currently

 

[hundshamer]

Save yourself $10 and buy this. You will only be able to use 250GB so no point in spending more for something you cannot wholly use. DO NOT TAKE IT OUT OF THE CASE. Plug it into your PC, use HDDhackr to format it (to retain xbox 1 backwards compatibility). Then put it in the 360 as per the video.

Check your PM for a link to the tutorial I used as I do not want to post outside links in the forum.

 

[dilav]

I think hundshamer means product link or amazon

Yes, the model BPVT is not on hundshamer's first list. However in HDDHackr 1.24, the following drives were added.

- WD Scorpio Blue Series BPVT
- WD AV-25 Series BUDT

HDDHackr 1.25 is the current version of this software.

 

[TheTwoR's]

Wow, k thanks all

 

[KingNL]

Why don't you try using Macdrive
It formatted my external HDD and let me use all 1TB of it on both my PC & XBOX360

 

[hundshamer]

In this case it would only work for media. His 360 is not jtagged, so he would not be able to use the whole drive for XBLA, DLC, games saves, ect.. The biggest memory size available to him for those purposes is 250GB as an internal HDD.