Is It Possible To Use An External Hard Drive For Xbox?

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Is It Possible To Use An External Hard Drive For Xbox?

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notorious19	Feb 6 2007, 03:18 PM Post #1
X-S Enthusiast Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 28-July 06 Member No.: 291721	just wondering if its possible to use a external hard drive to store music films and so on then be able to stream them from it to the xbox?

cerealkillajme	Feb 6 2007, 03:27 PM Post #2
X-S Messiah Group: Head Moderator Posts: 3241 Joined: 1-August 05 From: The Den Member No.: 238013 Xbox Version: v1.6 360 version: v1 (xenon)	If you use an external drive it will only show up as one big memory card.

notorious19	Feb 6 2007, 03:32 PM Post #3
X-S Enthusiast Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 28-July 06 Member No.: 291721	so is that a no then ?

Imgod	Feb 6 2007, 03:40 PM Post #4
X-S Member Group: Members Posts: 65 Joined: 28-January 07 Member No.: 326591	Hm, im not sure i havn't tried. But im guessing you can. As for 'stream'... i donk know what you mean by that. Like play them from the external HDD? Well, try this first... Using a file explorer in evox or something else like boxplorer Copy a song to your mem unit... THen using unleashed X 'My Dash of choice' open up file explorer and select the song with the 'a' button and see if it plays or not. If it doesnt, then nope... if it does... then yes i think you should be able to.. If this sounds confusing then tell me ill re-write it for you.

notorious19	Feb 6 2007, 03:43 PM Post #5
X-S Enthusiast Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 28-July 06 Member No.: 291721	yea i mean play it from the external hard drive, i dont have a mem unit at the moment so i cant try it

Imgod	Feb 6 2007, 03:48 PM Post #6
X-S Member Group: Members Posts: 65 Joined: 28-January 07 Member No.: 326591	See i dont know if you can play from the mem unit. If you can play from the mem unit then yes you can from an external HDD. If you have the external HDD, then plug it into the box, format it Format instructions.... Plug it into the xbox... Open up the file explorer... Highlight your External HDD... Press the button that lists your options like 'move, copy, delete, rename' Format should be listed there... Format it. Put music and stuff on it using your PC or Xbox, Open up the file explorer, Select the External HDD, Select a song in it or video... See if it plays. If it does then it works, if not then no dice

Chancer	Feb 6 2007, 03:50 PM Post #7
Don't You Trust me? Group: Head Moderator Posts: 18687 Joined: 31-October 03 Member No.: 71217 Xbox Version: v1.6 360 version: v3.0 (falcon)	QUOTE(Imgod @ Feb 6 2007, 02:47 PM) Hm, im not sure i havn't tried. But im guessing you can. As for 'stream'... i donk know what you mean by that. Like play them from the external HDD? Well, try this first... Using a file explorer in evox or something else like boxplorer Copy a song to your mem unit... THen using unleashed X 'My Dash of choice' open up file explorer and select the song with the 'a' button and see if it plays or not. If it doesnt, then nope... if it does... then yes i think you should be able to.. If this sounds confusing then tell me ill re-write it for you. Why are you guessing answers??

notorious19	Feb 6 2007, 03:50 PM Post #8
X-S Enthusiast Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 28-July 06 Member No.: 291721	thanks for your replies, i dont have one yet im trying to decide if it would be easier to get an external one or get a internal one and use that so thought i would ask to try help me decide

cerealkillajme	Feb 6 2007, 03:52 PM Post #9
X-S Messiah Group: Head Moderator Posts: 3241 Joined: 1-August 05 From: The Den Member No.: 238013 Xbox Version: v1.6 360 version: v1 (xenon)	Get an internal and lockable IDE drive, like one in this chart that's lockable, http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=list7QFruVa...ojAszxYW9nBFlLA

Imgod	Feb 6 2007, 03:53 PM Post #10
X-S Member Group: Members Posts: 65 Joined: 28-January 07 Member No.: 326591	QUOTE(cerealkillajme @ Feb 6 2007, 03:59 PM) Get an internal and lockable IDE drive, like one in this chart that's lockable, http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=list7QFruVa...ojAszxYW9nBFlLA That would be the easiest way to do it

Chancer	Feb 6 2007, 04:02 PM Post #11
Don't You Trust me? Group: Head Moderator Posts: 18687 Joined: 31-October 03 Member No.: 71217 Xbox Version: v1.6 360 version: v3.0 (falcon)	If you fancy adventure try this http://208.34.209.68/411gb/411gb.htm

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