I have a 1.1 xbox with xenium ice and avalaunch as dash, I did not change the HDD, but have an external 160gb drive I would like to setup for use. I know the transfer rate is extremely slow, but I only plan on using it for media center and game storage, not be using as primary run source. I have looked in the tutorials but have only found out about setting up for a drive swap. I was wondering if anyone could assist me. What format structure do I need to do with the drive (currently NTFS), any help from the very beginning to the end of the process. I am pretty good with comps and hardware, but not what I would call technically proficent, but I do follow instructions well. Thanks everyone

reading USB harddrives on the xbox is only possible through linux. it cannot be used in XBMC or any other app.

actually they do support it to some little degree, search on it there is a lot of work with it... but the moral of the story is it sucks.

http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/foru...t=ST;f=4;t=527;


Supported input media formats and devices:
- Read files directly from a CD, VCD or DVD media in the Xbox's DVD-ROM drive**
(Support CD/DVD formats: ISO 9660 - Mode1/2/XA, UDF 1.02 and XDVDFS/CDX)
(DVD-ROM playback is on-the-fly only** (no option yet to auto-cache to HDD first)
- Play files directly from Xbox built-in hard drive (copy first from DVD** or network)****
- Xbox Memory Cards (note that only FAT-X formated memory cards is supported)****
- Stream media files from a computer over a local network via XNS*, XBMSP or SMB,
(including all NAS, Network Attached Storage devices that support SAMBA/SMB).
- XBMC XBMSP-client code updated to support "Auto-Discovery of XBMSP servers"
- Stream supported media files from the internet (if stream format is supported too)*
- iTunes Music Shares via DAAP (network stream from Apple iTunes on Mac or PC)*****
- USB Mass Storage Devices (USB-HDD's/memory) with FAT-X filesystem*
* = Experimental, unfinished, unstable, buggy and/or limited

Thank you for your posts, guess i will just put the drive in the box, and use my non-modded box for live for here on out, while I am in there I may change the dvd drive, have to look in the tutorials for that one too. Thanks all