Help!!! im losing my hair with this 360!!!

Xbox 360 Media Connectivity

Help!!! im losing my hair with this 360!!!

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Grubster Boy 06-29-2009, 4:00 AM
hi all,
      have just got a new desktop running vista home prem.
i have all my video files stored on a 1tb WD mybook external hdd.
the xbox will not pick up any folders i have on the hdd, or the pc for that matter it only shows recorded tv.
i have shared the folders on the ext hdd still no joy.
also windows media player wont add any of the files to the library am i doing something wrong or is this a vista thing

any help much appreciated.
troy

Re: Help!!! im losing my hair with this 360!!!

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Titanas 06-29-2009, 4:35 AM
The external hard drive has to be formatted to the FAT32 file system, unfortunately if you do this it will erase all of the data on it. You could move all of the data onto your computer, format the external hard drive to FAT32, then move everything back.

In Windows Media Player have you allowed your Xbox 360 under Media Sharing?

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Thus I refute thee.

Re: Help!!! im losing my hair with this 360!!!

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Grubster Boy 06-29-2009, 4:48 AM
if the ext hdd is attached directly to the xbox it has to be fat32. but i had it reading files when it was attached to the pc running xp. and streaming to the xbox.

yes have media sharing enabled

Re: Help!!! im losing my hair with this 360!!!

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Titanas 06-29-2009, 4:54 AM
Yes, if you want to attach it it will have to be FAT32. The file system right now is probably NTSC; your computer can read pretty much any file system, but the Xbox 360 is severely limited.

Do you have the external hard drive connected to your computer when you try to stream your media? What happens when you try to add the files to your library?

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Thus I refute thee.

Re: Help!!! im losing my hair with this 360!!!

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Grubster Boy 06-29-2009, 5:29 AM
yp hard drive connected to pc, wasnt adding to library at all. did a restart of both systems and all worked.
no idea wat happened havnt changed anything.
all workin now, hope microsoft bring out a codec pack for the 360 with xvid in it soon.

many thanks
troy

Re: Help!!! im losing my hair with this 360!!!

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Titanas 06-29-2009, 5:39 AM
Well that was easy.

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Thus I refute thee.