X360 problems with external HD & Flash Drive

RaspiestGlint12 · Dec 26, 2015

I have an X360 - have run the Update today. Have a WD My Passport Ultra 2 tb external HD. The 360 recognizes the HD but none of the videos on it. Same issue with flash / jump drives. I'm a "newbie". so need to KISS.

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sc_shark · Dec 26, 2015

Pre-Loading Coming to Xbox One.

External hard drives are supposed to make the One run faster? Hmm.. I might have to go ahead and buy one then. I still have a good bit of space on the internal drive but I am all about anything that'll make it run faster or perform better.Click to expand...
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quite a few side by side loadtimes were done.. forza5 was one of the bigger ones.. where load times between tracks and such would range 10 seconds better iirc..

basically the internal hd is ok.. but the better external hd's western digital being one of them uses a hybrid sshd that offers load and unload speeds that are much faster than a normal sata 2.5 hard drive(which is what xb1 has internally) that paired with the 3.0usb go a long way.. also think once all apps,games ect ect are offloaded its basically like having a hard ddrive dedicated to supporting the user interface and operating system..

your real 2 options are
usb powered external they go to 2tb again the western digital has best reviews of performance its about 100bux on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Western-Dig...External_Hard_Disk_Drives&hash=item486cb416fa

your next option is going up to 4tb again the western digital is the best performer for the price.. and thats a consumer reportthing not me. ebay is about 150 for a new one.(externally powered)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/WD-My-Book-...External_Hard_Disk_Drives&hash=item4ad5edb222

only problem i have so far is when dnla/media stuff is avaliable the external hd is formated for xb1 and am not sure how i would save media files and the xb1 data stuff since.. its not like you can partition the hd..
my next problem is having enough space for the plugs.. my power bar is about full not sure i could get the external power for the bigger external hd..

xxJHARDYFAN92xx · Dec 26, 2015

Xbox 360 Will Not Play My Music

The other day, I was playing a game and it would play the music stored on my hard drive and on my external flash drive with NO problem.
Today, I boot my console up to play a game and I go to play some music to listen to while I play the game, and it will not play ANY of my music stored on my USB drive. It won't even play any of the music stored on my HD either!
Does anyone know what is going on??

Jena Makarov · Dec 26, 2015

What are the drives formatted as?

My knowledge is out of date but it used to be that the 360 would only recognise FAT32 drives.

Jena Makarov

What are the drives formatted as?

My knowledge is out of date but it used to be that the 360 would only recognise FAT32 drives.

Killswitch51880

I've never had an issue and I use small keychain flash drives and external HD. I don't want stuff fluttering my xbox hd that I don't frequently use... I've never had a problem. The safe remove option is more for when your inserting and removing flash
drives while power is on like pc and laptops.

Dirty Loco

External (USB) hard drives will work on any model Xbox 360 in the same way a USB Flash memory. Regardless of the size of the hard drive, the X360 will only use a maximum of 16Gb of that memory. The rest of the memory will not
be available.

ngocphi

the 4gig xbox s unit is not a HD

it is flash memory

for games that require hds that will not be accepted

using a external hd is kinda a waste due to the 16gig limitation USB drives will be a more useful device

only 250-320gig xbox s hds can be used as a HD on the xbox s units

MisterFizzle

Hey there Gib,

Sorry to hear you're having issues with downloading the HD texture pack for Battlefield 3.

For the HD content on that game, you need to save it to a Hard Drive. The internal 4 GB memory is not a hard drive, it is flash memory so the texture pack will not be able to save there. You'll need to save it to your external drive.

X360 problems with external HD & Flash Drive