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External hd for saves and watching videos

  • 31-07-2010 8:37pm
    #1
    feelgoodinc27
    Registered Users Posts: 714 ✭✭✭


    Hi i have an external hd currently formatted to ntfs that i intend to create a partition in FAT on so I can connect it to my xbox and watch videos stored in the FAT partition. Would it also be possible to have a separate 16gb partition formatted by the xbox for save games on the same drive. Also does the size of the drive matter for reading from it.


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  • #2
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    feelgoodinc27 wrote: »
    Hi i have an external hd currently formatted to ntfs that i intend to create a partition in FAT on so I can connect it to my xbox and watch videos stored in the FAT partition. Would it also be possible to have a separate 16gb partition formatted by the xbox for save games on the same drive. Also does the size of the drive matter for reading from it.

    It should be. Someone else can advise the maximum size for save games for the Xbox, but a gig or two will be more than enough, keep the rest for videos. I have a 1.5TB harddrive hooked up and it's fine. :)


  • #3
    feelgoodinc27
    Registered Users Posts: 714 ✭✭✭feelgoodinc27


    I haven't tried formatting the external for game saves yet but I used partition magic to create a 10gig FAT32 partition keeping the rest as NTFS, but the xbox doesn't recognize it so I suppose I'll have to format all the drive to FAT32 or HFS. How did you set your drive up?


  • #4
    Evolute
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭Evolute


    Make a partition of 16 gb as Fat32(If you need to you can make a couple of partitions) and you can use that for your saves and installed games if you wish and then the rest of the HDD will work as normal.


  • #5
    feelgoodinc27
    Registered Users Posts: 714 ✭✭✭feelgoodinc27


    Hi thanks for the help the external is working great now. Using 16GB for game saves and the rest of the FAT32 partition for movies.The rest of the drive is partitioned to NTFS for my other stuff.


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