External Hard Drive with Xbox 360

TG Kanoki · Oct 15, 2014

So i am seriously debating going out and buying a large external hard drive, one of my friends says that he formatted his 1T Hard drave and can use all of the 1T as Xbox memory. though i have seen some information debating that it can only format up to 32G
so before i go out and buy a new external hard drive i would love some definite information. and if it matters any i have an old xbox 360 Arcade

:)

The 4th Estate · Oct 15, 2014

External hard drive only

My official Xbox 360 internal hard drive is faulty. I was wondering if it would be OK to take it out and use an
external USB hard drive instead. Has anyone got any experience using only an external hard drive with an Xbox 360?

Rhys Spagnolo · Oct 15, 2014

External Hard Drives: De-Formatting From Xbox One

I am going to tell you how to remove the formatting on a External Hard Drive from a Xbox One.

Requirements:

Xbox 360

1. Insert external hard drive into Xbox 360

2. Go into System

3. Go into Storage

4. Press 'Y' on External Hard Drive (Will be called "unformatted device")

5. Click on Format

6. The External Hard Drive will now contain the Xbox 360's formatting.

7. If you do not want the Xbox 360's formatting on the External Hard Drive, all you need to do is format the External Hard Drive on a computer. Otherwise, if you don't care that the Xbox 360's formatting is on the External Hard Drive, then ignore this step.

Hope This Helped Anyone Who Did Not Know How To Remove An Xbox One's Formatting From An External Hard Drive!

onyxishere · Oct 15, 2014

An external hard drive can only be used to a maximum of 32GB per device with only two of them be used at the same time.

Any attempts to modify the system to recognize a larger drive is considered modding and could result in the console and/or gamertag being banned from the Live service altogether.

StuartATrueRed · Oct 31, 2018

Could your friend be talking about an external hard drive with an Xbox One. You can use an external usb 3.0 hard drive with that console, but you can only use external storage upto 32gb on an xbox 360.

H-F Hum

I'm gonna be more specific: the game doesn't accept installation on external storage. Whether it's flash drive or external hard drive, the game isn't meant to install on external storage connected through USB just like Need for Speed Rivals on Xbox 360.
You need to install it on an internal hard drive (media hard drive). The link I provided to you aren't external hard drives; they're internal hard drives for the Xbox 360:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/accessories/harddrives

Lady ll N lK

You have to have an external hard drive plug in. It does not have to be 360 just reformat it. External hard drives that plug in the USB are not recognized as a hard drive for the 360.

Smwutches

Some games do require an Xbox hard drive due to the system files on the drives. External hard drives will not work. They require an official MS Xbox 360 hard drive.

Internet Expert

The Xbox 360 should be able to support external hard drives for game storage.

Is your Xbox 360 fully updated? Have you also formatted the hard drive with the Xbox 360?

Obsessive Power

Hi,

You only really need an official Xbox 360 Slim hard drive if:

The game insists on using an internal 360 hard drive. There are a select few 360 games that need to install some data from the disc to run, these games need an internal drive.
You still want to play original Xbox games.

For almost all other Xbox 360 games you can install to a external hard drive via a USB cable. The Xbox 360 supports external drives up to 2TB. If you connect an standard external hard drive via USB you can just move the game or saves to the external drive.

Unless your Xbox 360 drive is official, you won't be able to play original Xbox games. Most drives are not official. Any official hard drive will be quite old now as Microsoft hasn't made these drives for nearly a decade.

I have an old Xbox 360 I use occasionally for games that are either not BC on the Xbox One/Series X or were never released on PC. I use a 1TB external hard drive. I also want to insure that my Xbox 360s old DVD drive will continue to work into the future, so I install my 360 disc games to the 1TB drive.

External Hard Drive with Xbox 360