360 won't recognize USB flash drive.

BeguiledPrune6 · Oct 18, 2014

I am having the same problem. Watched a movie off of USB the other day and now the USB does not even show up in storage.

:)

DanielFlickinger · Oct 18, 2014

Game Drive - you need to attach an xbox 360 hard drive

Do you have any other usb storage devices plugged into your console? Because the Xbox 360 will only recognize 2 at a time. So let’s say you have two flash drives plugged in already, it wouldn’t recognize the hard drive without removing one of the flash drives
first.

daxmims · Oct 18, 2014

Please tell me this is a sick joke

You need a 16 gb USB flash drive. It MUST have sufficient read speed 15mb/s

"This initial install will require an Xbox 360 Hard Drive or an external 16GB USB flash drive with at least 8 GB of free space. If using a USB flash drive it must be at least USB 2.0 with a minimum 15mb/s read speed and formatted for Xbox 360 use. A new USB flash drive is recommended to ensure optimum performance. "

http://support.rockstargames.com/hc...-V-Xbox-360-and-PS3-Installation-Requirements

Good Luck

Mister Beep · Oct 21, 2014

Hey there BeguiledPrune6!

I'm sorry to hear about the USB issues. Have you tried switching to a different USB port on the Xbox 360 console? I would also try plugging the USB into a PC to see if it is recognized or needs to be repaired. Here is a support article with a list of troubleshooting
steps I recommend trying:
USB device doesn't work when connected to an Xbox 360 console.

IceStorm III

[quote user="MayhemsShadow"]the xbox has never recognized a usb flash drive larger than 16 gb[/quote]Wrong.

The 360 can recognize large storage devices just fine. Plug a 64GB USB flash drive into the console with one big FAT32 volume on it? No problem.

Up until Fall 2012, the 360 could only make use of 16GB of a FAT32 volume as a USB Memory Unit. As of the Fall 2012 update, that has doubled to 32GB.

Support finally got around to updating the
USB flash drive doc with the 32GB information. Note that to create a USB Memory Unit of maximum capacity, a drive larger than maximum capacity must be used due to differences in how the 360 denotes 32GB vs how storage manufacturers denote 32GB.

DanielFlickinger

Do you have any other usb storage devices plugged into your console? Because the Xbox 360 will only recognize 2 at a time. So let’s say you have two flash drives plugged in already, it wouldn’t recognize the hard drive without removing one of the flash drives
first.

Elohmn

Are you simply using it via the USB. it won't recognize it via SATA (if that's hat you were trying)?

Just an fyi, once it does "see it" and it's Formatted properly by the Xbox 360, it will only be 16Gb Maximum. In short, it's a lot easier to simply use a 16Gb USB Flash Drive. But it won't be recognized as a HDD either. Games and Game Features that require
a HDD will not work with only a USB Storage Connection.

In addition, there is no "Disc" or anything that needs to run by the Xbox 360. It is either a correct Formatted USB Storage Device or not. The Disc mentioned in the Transfer Kit is simply to Move Content from one Storage Device to another, not Format anything.

onyxishere

Ok, can you try the steps listed for formatting via disc management as listed in the link below?

www.tomshardware.com/.../usb-flash-drive-recognized-recovery.html

FourT2

In my case, the drive is recognized by PS4 just fine. But Xbox does not recognize ANY storage device - several hard drives or USB flash drive.

360 won't recognize USB flash drive.