Would i be able to use an External Hard Drive (which can be plugged in through the usb plugs or whatever) To play videos (wmv), pictures, and my music?

Yes, but the media must be in the supported formats, or it won't show up.

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Ok, thanks... Now to go out and buy one :)

 SoulChief wrote:

Ok, thanks... Now to go out and buy one :)

If you have a CD or DVD burner, you could put the content onto a disc and view it on your Xbox 360 that way. May save you some cash (although the other way would be a lot easier). Again I want to stress that the media must be in the supported format.

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Remember to format your external harddisk in FAT32. XBox 360 never read NTFS.

 Nsane Kracker wrote:

 SoulChief wrote:

Ok, thanks... Now to go out and buy one :)

If you have a CD or DVD burner, you could put the content onto a disc and view it on your Xbox 360 that way. May save you some cash (although the other way would be a lot easier). Again I want to stress that the media must be in the supported format.

I dont have a dvd burner, and most of the content is too big for a cd (over a gig)

 JOHNNY KO wrote:

Remember to format your external harddisk in FAT32. XBox 360 never read NTFS.

How the *** can you watch a file that is over 4 GB then??

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hmmm, that could be the issue, as I was able to see the files on this drive when connected to my pc, and shared them to the xbox, however when I connected my drive to the xbox directly, It did not even show up as a memory device... I will have to check when I get home to see what the format for the HD is...

Thanks for that hint...

:o)

Good point about not being able to watch files over 4 gigs though, but I guess if it's a wmv the likely hood of having one may be lessoned.... (hopefully)  Cheers.

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The native Windows format will format FAT32 up to 32GB.  You can use third-party tools to push past that limit though and I believe the 360 and 2000/XP/Vista will read that.  Let me rephrase, I know that 2000/XP/Vista can read large FAT32 partitions, I'm just not sure about the 360 but I'd guess it would since it's a heavily modified form of XP.

I have a 120 Segate and I have had no problems.

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Is it formatted as FAT32 or NTFS?

windows 98 is actually the best to use for formating in fat32, it goes higher that 32gb, i forget what it can go up to, i think 100, not possitive, but i know its more than 32gb's that u get from xp

This is a great option that I wish more people knew about. I've been going back and forth with an old 80gig USB for a while now. Mostly for downloaded videos and trailers from X-Live. Demos, updates and emulation drivers to the default drive.

I don't think people are aware of this option, cause people are screaming for "larger drives", but if MS did release a larger drive it would be priced rediculously. The 20gig is plenty big enough, so long as my external works, for updates and drivers.

~soulguard

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 SoulGuard03 wrote:

This is a great option that I wish more people knew about. I've been going back and forth with an old 80gig USB for a while now. Mostly for downloaded videos and trailers from X-Live. Demos, updates and emulation drivers to the default drive.

I don't think people are aware of this option, cause people are screaming for "larger drives", but if MS did release a larger drive it would be priced rediculously. The 20gig is plenty big enough, so long as my external works, for updates and drivers.

~soulguard

I didnt know you could chose where to download Live content. As far as I knew, stuff from Xbox Live can only download to the attached 360 HDD.

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 SoulGuard03 wrote:

This is a great option that I wish more people knew about. I've been going back and forth with an old 80gig USB for a while now. Mostly for downloaded videos and trailers from X-Live. Demos, updates and emulation drivers to the default drive.

I don't think people are aware of this option, cause people are screaming for "larger drives", but if MS did release a larger drive it would be priced rediculously. The 20gig is plenty big enough, so long as my external works, for updates and drivers.

~soulguard

Wow are you say we can use any usb hd with the 360 to store movies/trailers, etc. I know there is an option to store to memory card when downloading stuff but I wasn't aware you could store it to and usb hd.

 SoulGuard03 wrote:

This is a great option that I wish more people knew about. I've been going back and forth with an old 80gig USB for a while now. Mostly for downloaded videos and trailers from X-Live. Demos, updates and emulation drivers to the default drive.

I don't think people are aware of this option, cause people are screaming for "larger drives", but if MS did release a larger drive it would be priced rediculously. The 20gig is plenty big enough, so long as my external works, for updates and drivers.

~soulguard

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What is the correct format for a movie to be in for me to be able to see it on my external hard drive with my 360. I am able to see pictures on there so i know its in the correct format. But i droped an mpeg in there and i cant see it. Thanks

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i think at the moment its only .wmv files but correct me if i'm wrong

I didn't think this was possible.  You had just made my day.  I'm going to get myself a external hard drive and use it exclusively to the 360. 

Thanks for this info.

Lets hold on here, people. As far as I know, an external hard drive can only be used to play existing media content that you put on it...that's it. You cant download Xbox Live Marketplace movies/tv shows to it or save games on it.

Am I right?

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It's not working for me. I have a 80gb hard drive with a 28gb FAT32 partition. The Xbox 360 will read the wmv's on it (actually in any folder), but it will not recognize it as a device in dashboard settings / media module, which means I cannot transfer any files to it. Do I have to create an Xbox-compatible directory structure?

Like I was trying to say above, you cant use an external drive to save things on the 360, only stream media for playback.

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Can you explain on how you are using your External Hdd, Please?  I mean, are you attaching it directly the xbox 360 usb port?  An how is the 360 recognizing the drive?   We need more information, but this is so exciting.  I can't wait to hear how you are doing this.

 Robo Zombi wrote:

Lets hold on here, people. As far as I know, an external hard drive can only be used to play existing media content that you put on it...that's it. You cant download Xbox Live Marketplace movies/tv shows to it or save games on it.

Am I right?

An why not?   The xbox 360 was design to be like media type console.  So, I don't understand your point.  Microsoft explains that we are able to transfer er streamline music and movies from our pc.  Then why wouldn't we be able to do this with the external hard drive? 

 

I am using a USB 2.0 Maxxtor 250 GB Drive. works perfectly!

when you say it works perfectly do you mean you can view info on your hard drive on your xbox or do you mean you can save items on your external hard drive from the xbox.

I can access items on my external hard drive and my pc but I cant seem to transfer items back to the pc or external hard drive from the xbox hdd

Plugging in a USB external hard drive is no different that plugging in a USB flash drive. You will only be able to play your prexisting Windows Media files. You will NOT be able to save marketplace content, game updates, or save data to the external drive.

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 Robo Zombi wrote:

Plugging in a USB external hard drive is no different that plugging in a USB flash drive. You will only be able to play your prexisting Windows Media files. You will NOT be able to save marketplace content, game updates, or save data to the external drive.

Explain why not?  I mean.  I thought that was the whole point in media sharing.  Being able to transfer information from your xbox to your pc hdd.  Or even the external hdd?   An if that's the case.  What a rip off!  Oh well, at least I can play video games.  But what happens when i run out disk space on the xbox 360 hdd?  I can't fork out another $100.00 for another drive.  

 

 Meistroracer wrote:

Explain why not?  I mean.  I thought that was the whole point in media sharing.  Being able to transfer information from your xbox to your pc hdd.  Or even the external hdd?   An if that's the case.  What a rip off!  Oh well, at least I can play video games.  But what happens when i run out disk space on the xbox 360 hdd?  I can't fork out another $100.00 for another drive.

I don't think he can really explain why not, it's just how it is :)  I thought the same thing as many on this when I found out you could stream content from an external USB device, that we'd be able to use it as basically another storage location.

Currently, you CAN NOT transfer or save content from your XBox 360 to an external device.  It is ONLY a one-way communication, stream from external device to 360.

Now, given how popular the download service has been, at least at the start, they are going to have to change that.  No way a 20GB drive is going to be a feasible solution for people that download more than a few episodes of TV or want to rent HD movies.  I have a feeling that soon we'll either see a) the ability to transfer content to an external HDD or b) they will offer up an offical XBox 360 large capacity drive.

From a consumer point I hope for option A but from a marketing, revenue perspective I'd bet on B.  Why buy a premium system if you can just plug in a large cap. drive instead?

 MonocularJack wrote:

 Meistroracer wrote:

Explain why not?  I mean.  I thought that was the whole point in media sharing.  Being able to transfer information from your xbox to your pc hdd.  Or even the external hdd?   An if that's the case.  What a rip off!  Oh well, at least I can play video games.  But what happens when i run out disk space on the xbox 360 hdd?  I can't fork out another $100.00 for another drive.

I don't think he can really explain why not, it's just how it is :)  I thought the same thing as many on this when I found out you could stream content from an external USB device, that we'd be able to use it as basically another storage location.

Currently, you CAN NOT transfer or save content from your XBox 360 to an external device.  It is ONLY a one-way communication, stream from external device to 360.

Now, given how popular the download service has been, at least at the start, they are going to have to change that.  No way a 20GB drive is going to be a feasible solution for people that download more than a few episodes of TV or want to rent HD movies.  I have a feeling that soon we'll either see a) the ability to transfer content to an external HDD or b) they will offer up an offical XBox 360 large capacity drive.

From a consumer point I hope for option A but from a marketing, revenue perspective I'd bet on B.  Why buy a premium system if you can just plug in a large cap. drive instead?

 

See!!! That's what I was getting at.  I don't have a lot of room left on the xbox 360 hdd. I have 8.4 Gb of space left.  Although, It may seem small to me, but you think about it.  That still quite alot of space.  But like you said, for those whose going to download movies or more games from xbox live marketplace.  Is going to need to make more room on hard drive.  

Now wait!!  What about this device X-port?  Isn't that device design to transfer games and stuff from the hdd to your pc? 

Now why can't that same concept be with the external hdd? 

An I'm not trying to be difficult, but I just want to learn.   More I kow the better.