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What external hard drives actually work on XBox?

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Shpadoinkle
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I bought a 500GB WD My Passport Essential and it doesn't work on my 360. I tried to format it to FAT 32, and it didn't work. Then I called tech support... Turns out I need My Passport AV. WTF?

What external drive do you use for your 360?
May 7 2010 2:02PM
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h_bar
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google.
May 7 2010 4:04PM
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soulskier
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sorry, cant help you
but i could name 7 kinds that dont work with xbox's
May 7 2010 4:19PM
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freeskibum82
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http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/mods/USB%20Hard%20Drive%20Mod.htm
May 7 2010 4:21PM
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leahey
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One of the recent updates, (last 3 weeks) Allows you to use flash drives, so whatever external hard drives work like a flash drive would work. But I tihnk they both work the same way.
May 7 2010 4:29PM
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IanAvery-Leaf
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yeah you can make up to a 16gb partition and the xbox has to format that partition so the xbox can read it
sucks that it only goes up to 16gb
May 7 2010 4:53PM
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Shpadoinkle
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This sucks. My friend can use his drive, which is pretty much the same, but I can't use mine?

I also have a Mac. I already reformatted it to DOS, but still doesn't work. So basically I need a flash drive?
May 7 2010 5:41PM
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leahey
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Or a drive with a max capacity of 16 GB.
May 7 2010 10:08PM
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KAS
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I have a LaCie external and it works fine on my xbox
May 8 2010 10:33AM
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Shpadoinkle
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Yeah, I don't think that's right.
May 9 2010 12:14AM
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SEABURN
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http://www.macproonline.com/250Gb-External-FireWire/-p5633964.html

this one works w/ my 360
May 9 2010 12:53PM
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Shpadoinkle
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This is getting retarded. If a regular PC can recognize the drive then an XBox should too.
May 9 2010 1:51PM
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