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- Mostly, Xbox One supports the exFAT or FAT32 file system that you can pick from here and choose the partition size as well. This will format the hard drive for Xbox One in a compatible format and you can easily use it to extend the storage of your gaming console.
MS can make some stupid decisions, but this one takes the cake. I watch movies on my external HD connected to the 360. I was going to put some HD movies on the hard drive, but FAT32 does not.
Does Xbox 360 Read Exfat Usb
- 360gamer_2011 19 Sep 2011 15:50:23 11 posts
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Registered 10 years agoHey everybody, brand new to the forum and hope somebody could help me out with this issue. I have been using a 1TB fat32 usb hard drive with 360 for watching movies, listening to music etc but recently ran out of space and picked up a new 2.5TB drive. Went to format to fat32 and realized the max filesystem size for fat32 is 2TB. After doing some research I learned that the 360 also supports HFS+ and have been trying to format to this filesystem however I use windows which doesn't natively support hfs+. Was able to get a copy of Paragon HFS for windows which allows one to read and write to HFS+ drives in windows however I can't figure out a way to format to HFS+ within windows. I also ran into a bit of a snag because I was able to get the paragon hfs driver to install properly on my 32bit windows machine but not my 64bit one. If anyone could provide some advice it would be appreciated.
Recap: Looking for 1) a way to format to an external usb drive to HFS+ in windows
2) another option for reading/writing to an hfs+ formatted usb drive in a 64bit version of windows
OR: some other totally different solution that would allow the 360 to read the device and windows to read/write to it.
Thanks There's a Windows application called Macdrive which a lot of people use, but a lot complain that it's not very good. There's another program called Transmac which I've seen people claim is superior, but unlike Macdrive it's not free. Can't tell you much more than that as I use a Mac, but I expect one of the two programs will help. - chopsen 19 Sep 2011 16:02:55 21,668 posts
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Registered 16 years ago Incidentally, does anyone know why the 360 supports HFS+? It's good that it does, of course, but I just find it surprising that a Microsoft console supports a Mac system which their PC OS doesn't. - chopsen 19 Sep 2011 16:10:35 21,668 posts
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Registered 16 years agoYeah, supporting NTFS would have been a more obvious, wouldn't it? Ho hum. - kingcrowbar 19 Sep 2011 16:12:03 962 posts
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Registered 16 years ago - elstoof 19 Sep 2011 16:13:50 26,751 posts
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Registered 15 years agoXBox runs on PowerPC architecture so I guess that's the reason. kingcrowbar wrote:
iPods?
Ah, I guess that'd make sense, ta!- 360gamer_2011 19 Sep 2011 16:36:20 11 posts
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Registered 10 years agoThanks to all for the replies. I just tried using a Ubuntu LiveCD and run GParted to try to format the drive. Strangely it showed fat32 as an option so i figured I'd try that and it actually seemed to work, sort of. Formatted ok. read and write in Windows seemed to go okay however when i plugged it into the xbox, i got nothing. GParted had HFS+ grayed out in the livecd version of ubuntu i was running so i tried downloading hfs libraries however this failed. Currently going to try out macdrive and see how things go from there. - 360gamer_2011 19 Sep 2011 17:35:07 11 posts
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Registered 10 years agoUpdate:
Starting to get really frustrated with this whole process. Tried Macdrive 8 which didn't seem to really work as it appeared to let me create the partition but i couldn't view the partition contents at all so i installed the current verion Macdrive 9 which allowed me to create the partition and read and write to it in windows. But when I plug it into the 360 it doesn't show up in the usual 'Portable Device' section of the Music, Video tabs. The drive shows up in the memory settings of the xbox but doesn't show a size or anything and when I select itall it give is an option to configure usb device for storage of 360 content. This whole stupid process would be unnecessary if MS would just support NTFS on the 360. Why the heck would microsoft not include support for it's own current file system? It's not like it would cost them anything in terms of licensing. This seems absolutely ludicrous. If anyone has any other suggestions I'm willing to try just about anything at this point. Thanks again. - chopsen 19 Sep 2011 17:39:28 21,668 posts
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Registered 16 years ago - SteJosh 19 Sep 2011 17:40:07 258 posts
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Registered 14 years agoChopsen wrote:
Chopsen wrote:
Or just have 2 FAT32 partitions.
Do that. - 360gamer_2011 19 Sep 2011 17:45:18 11 posts
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Registered 10 years agoSorry if I didn't make it clear in my wording earlier: I had tried both a single fat32 partition and two 1.2TB partitions and it didn't seem to show up on the 360 (though they were available and seemed to work just fine in windows). If you have personal experience with this working I may give it another shot but didn't seem to work for me - 360gamer_2011 19 Sep 2011 18:11:19 11 posts
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Registered 10 years agoPenguinJim wrote:
Try removing all of the partitions from the HDD. Then plug it into the 360 and go into the Memory section of the dash. You should be able to find the option to let the 360 plop its 20GB partition onto your HDD. You're best to do this first.
Then connect your HDD to your PC and format a 2TB partition for regular data and a second partition using the remaining ~300GB.
Tried this but the 360 just stated there was an error performing that task when i selected both configure now and customize.
I guess I'll try creating one large ntfs partition and then trying the xbox configure now option. If this doesn't work will try the 2 fat32 partitions again. What hard drive is it? - 360gamer_2011 19 Sep 2011 18:48:52 11 posts
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Registered 10 years agotelboy007 wrote:
It's a WD Elements Desktop Drive 2.5TB
What hard drive is it?
Was beginning to wonder myself whether somehow this drive just isn't compatible with the 360 or whether no matter how a drive is formatted if it will work with the 360 when it's larger than 2TB.
I just tried creating a single 32GB FAT32 partition and again the xbox didn't seem to recognize it (showed up as a drive in the memory section of the settings but not anywhere else. and it failed to work with 'Configure Now.'
I may try to return the drive and see about another 2TB drive that would hopefully work without issue. Anyone have experience with a 2TB drive and the 360? - 360gamer_2011 7 Nov 2011 13:08:50 11 posts
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Registered 10 years agoWell, it seems like I may have figured out the issue. I kept the hard drive around as I seem to have lost the receipt and just pulled it out again to give it another go. While formatting in EASEUS Partition Master I noticed that where it stated my computer's internal hard drive as 'MBR' this external drive was listed as a 'GPT' drive. Did a little bit of looking and it appears to be a new way of storing partition information which provides some redundancy and allows for more 'primary' partitions. (If you're interested and want to learn more check out Windows and GPT FAQ.
I then found directions on how to convert a GPT disk to MBR in Windows 7 here Convert GPT Disk to MBR Disk. Hopefully this works. Will post a follow-up shortly. - 360gamer_2011 7 Nov 2011 13:38:11 11 posts
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Registered 10 years agoGuess my enthusiasm was a bit unwarranted. Successfully followed the instructions on converting from GPT to MBR and tried creating various FAT32 partitions to no avail. I really do wish I understood what the issue was so I could just accept that it's not going to work because right now I feel like I must just be missing something. Anyway, if anyone has had any experience getting a large drive like this to work with a 360 I'd love to hear how it was done. Thanks. My portable HDD is NTFS so I've never been able to use it with the 360, I save everything to a NAS and stream to the 360 that way. Doesn't help you out though, sorry! - 360gamer_2011 7 Nov 2011 13:56:37 11 posts
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Registered 10 years agoI've been thinking of doing this as I do have streaming working well from my two windows7 laptops using TVersity, however I kind of need the laptops to be portable rather than having them tied down to a single location due to being connected to an external hard drive. I'd also like to have my video library available without having to have a laptop turned on and plugged into the external drive. It would be much more convenient if I could just leave the hard drive plugged into the 360 and just plug it into the laptops once a month or so to transfer new content. Does the 360 support exFAT these days? - 360gamer_2011 7 Nov 2011 15:31:06 11 posts
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Registered 10 years agoFrom everything I've read so far and a fairly quick google search, no, I don't believe the 360 supports exFAT. - dominalien 7 Nov 2011 17:25:05 10,326 posts
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Registered 15 years agoHave you tried creating a single relatively small (e.g. 1 TB or 500 GB) FAT32 partition on the drive to see if the 360 will see this at all?
In order to enable HFS+ support in gparted from a Ubuntu LiveCD, do the following:
Boot the system, select Try Ubuntu (or close the window with the x button in the left upper corner); this will take you to the booted system. Now for the subsequent steps you need the internet, either connect the computer with a cable or configure your wifi network; you have a pretty good chance your wifi card will be supported out of the box.
Start Software Sources and tick the second option (universe), click Close.
Open the Terminal and type
sudo apt-get update
This will download some stuff, and then
sudo apt-get install hfsprogs
This will install support for HFS+ in gparted
You can now start gparted and HFS+ support will be enabled.
From gparted you can change the partition table type on the drive (Device -> Create Partition Table..). An MBR partition table will be created by default (it's described as msdos in advanced options).
Play around with partition sizes and PT types. Maybe you'll hit a combination that works. - 360gamer_2011 7 Nov 2011 17:46:53 11 posts
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Registered 10 years agoThanks for the instructions, dominalien
For the time being I think I've given up trying and have begun setting up an old Pentium3 WinXP machine to plug the drive into and use as a server. If this setup doesn't work well for me (due to only having USB 1.0) I may try revisiting HFS+. If anyone comes across this thread and has anything to add that may help others trying to do the same thing, please continue posting possible solutions (or what worked for you) as I can't be the only person experiencing this issue.
Thanks to all for the help - dominalien 7 Nov 2011 17:52:24 10,326 posts
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Registered 15 years agoYou're welcome.
Oh, and USB 1 will make you want to shoot yourself in the head after about 3 minutes.
Good luck
Edit: oh, and any filesystem more advanced than FAT32 (hfs+, ext3, NTFS, etc) will have the big advantage of supporting files larger than 4 GB. Whether your 360 will support such files is another matter entirely, of course
Edited by dominalien at 17:56:03 07-11-2011 - jjring31 5 Apr 2012 22:36:33 1 posts
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Registered 9 years agoFor anybody still having problems, i've figured it out. I use a mac so the steps below won't really help anybody running windows, but the overall solution should be the same for everybody. First, i'm using a 2.5tb WD Essential HDD.
Steps:
Plug HDD into mac
Open Disk Utility
Click on your HDD
Click on Partition
Under 'Partition Layout', click the drop down and select 'Partition 1'
Below that, click 'Options'
***This is the key step-***Select the 'Apple Partition Map' option
Click 'Ok'
Give your partition a name
Next to 'Format', make sure 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is selected
Click 'Apply'
And thats it. Let it finish and your hdd will now work with Mac and xbox 360. (haven't tested on windows yet)
**Note** - For windows users, I've never used formatting software for windows, but when you are trying to format to HFS+ (aka Mac OS Extended), see if there are any options to change the partition scheme before formatting. The three options Mac gives are 'GUID Partition Table' (which i think is the default and does NOT work with xbox 360), 'Apple Partition Map', and 'Master Boot Record'. You want to make sure and choose 'Apple Partition Map' if it gives you the choice.
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Brief introduction of Xbox 360 and PS3
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console developed by and produced for Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 features an online service (called Xbox Live), used to download games and game demos, music, and video media. The Xbox 360 was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12, 2005. Xbox 360 only supports FAT 32 formatted drives.
PS3 is the short for PlayStation 3, which is a home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan. It is the successor to the PlayStation 2, as part of the PlayStation series. Its main storage media is Blu-ray Disc, and it is capable to link with PlayStation Portable (PSP). SONY is using FAT32 as the standard for the PS3.
From the information above we can see Xbox 360 and PS3 both support to FAT32 file system, so they can not read NTFS partition.
How to deal with NTFS HDD cannot be read by Xbox 360 or PS3?
As we all know that Xbox 360 or PS3 cannot read NTFS HDD partition, how to deal with it? FAT 32 file system is key point to this question. FAT 32 is the standard file system to Xbox 360 and PS3, and it is also the most common used drive format. To solve this problem, we need to convert NTFS to FAT 32 file system. We can convert between two of them by Disk Management or AOMEI NTFS to FAT 32 Converter 2.0. Premiere pro last version.
It is well known to us that NTFS and FAT 32 are two file systems for computer to manage the files on disk. FAT 32 breaks some limitation of FAT, besides the limitation with 2TB drive's size at most. And it supports to files no more than 4GB, which means the single file over 4GB cannot be saved in FAT 32. Although it has this limitation, it is also can compatible with many machines, like MacOS, Windows, Linux, Play Station, XBOX, PS3, etc.
Solutions to Xbox 360 or PS3 Cannot Read NTFS HDD Partition
Solution 1: Disk Management
FAT32 is a good choice for the users who are running multiple OS, while NTFS is the newer drive format which has great security, file by file compression, quotas and file encryption. With Windows built in Disk Management, FAT32 can be converted to NTFS but it is not so easy to convert NTFS back to FAT32.
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First, it is not allowed to format the NTFS partition larger than 32GB as FAT32 file system, even the partition is empty. This is the inherent limitation in Windows. Second, format NTFS partition to FAT32 will cause everything erased including important data.
Does Xbox 360 Read Exfat File
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Can Xbox 360 Read Exfat
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