Xbox360 Does'nt Recognize My 1tb External Hdd Options

[rich1515]

Hi Folks,

I've bought the usb2 Buffalo 1TB external hard drive (HD-LBU2) for watching media etc.. on my x-box360.

I used the disk formatter that came with the drive to change it to FAT32. This was done successfully and my computer recognizes that it is now FAT32 (960GB).

The drive seems to start up correctly when i plug it into the x-box360 with the green light coming on, but the portable devices option in the video library remains greyed out.

Is there anything else i can try to get this working or should i be using another program to format it into FAT32?


Thanks

[darklord88]

glad to hear it all worked out for you!

yea theres certain formats that the xbox wont play, strange how it worked then didnt, but ive had mp4 files do that as well, it worked on one of my externals, but when i copied it to a different external for my dad, he said it didnt work. perhaps some sort of drm protection so that it cant be played on a million different things, but i doubt it lol

the HFS+ is a great easy format for the 360, it just sucks that you need macdrive on all computers to read the drive!

i wish m$ would just update to NTFS and do away with all these silly limitations so we could all just use our hard drives!

that and MKV support and id be a happy man!