Connecting an external HD to an XBOX

ibster · 20-12-2006, 11:08 AM

Has anyone tried this, i have an external Western Digital My Book HD which i want to try and connect to the XBOX, has anyone tried this ? Ive found a XBOX Controller to USB lead which should enable connectivity, would there be an issue with drivers etc or should all external Hard Disks work ?

thanks

scumball · 20-12-2006, 11:11 AM

I don't think any work... The drive would have to be formatted as FATX for one thing - how would you do that?

ibster · 20-12-2006, 11:14 AM

The drive is already formatted to FAT32, what is FATX ?

scumball · 20-12-2006, 11:17 AM

FATX is the file system used by an XBox...

*triplea4uk* · 20-12-2006, 12:33 PM

Only way it will work is if you have installed linux on your XB.

If you want access to the drive just set it up as a network share when it's plugged into PC XB will then see it.

scumball · 20-12-2006, 12:39 PM

But you can't load games and homebrew on it...only useful for streaming media using XBMC really. Best to fit a new bigger HDD in the XBox itself or you could get an Xtender case and fit a couple!