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2 TB USB Hard Drive with XBOX 360

MarkR · 2015-08-27 10:00:03

Friend in work had an issue with her kids xbox 360, they bought a 2tb usb hard drive which isn't being read correctly. I had a quick look online, but i'm still not sure whether I have it right. I presume there are limitations in regard to partition size and file structure, but can't seem to get it right. What's the…

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27-08-2015 11:00am

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MarkR

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Friend in work had an issue with her kids xbox 360, they bought a 2tb usb hard drive which isn't being read correctly. I had a quick look online, but i'm still not sure whether I have it right. I presume there are limitations in regard to partition size and file structure, but can't seem to get it right. What's the recommended way to do this?

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#2 27-08-2015 11:07am
Fingleberries

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If it's a new Hard Drive, they should just let the 360 format it first before saving anything to it and then it should work.

Also, if they haven't connected to Xbox Live recently (in the last year or so) it could be that they are missing the firmware update that supports 2TB external drives instead of only 16GB.

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