How to format your hard drive for use with Xbox 360

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How to format your hard drive for use with Xbox 360
How to format your hard drive for use with Xbox 360
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This article will show you how to format your hard drive so you can use it with your Xbox 360 as an additional storage for your photos and music, etc.

For this, only a Western Digital hard drive with a capacity of only 80GB and 250GB is suitable.

Steps

Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 1
Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 1

Step 1. In this process, your hard drive will be formatted, so back up all your files to another hard drive, laptop, or be prepared to lose everything on your hard drive

Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 2
Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 2

Step 2. After you've made your backups, connect your hard drive to your Xbox 360, then go to My Xbox / System Preferences / Storage

If an option titled "USB Mass Storage Device" appears, please skip to step 8.

Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 3
Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 3

Step 3. This may only work on Windows 7

Connect the hard drive to your laptop. Open the Start menu, right-click on "My Computer" and select "Manage".

Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 4
Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 4

Step 4. In the "Computer Management" section, select "Mass Storage / Disk Management"

Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 5
Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 5

Step 5. Find your external hard drive, right click and select 'Format'

Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 6
Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 6

Step 6. Change the file system to 'exFAT', select "OK" and then select "Continue" on the next screen

Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 7
Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 7

Step 7. Reconnect the hard drive to the Xbox 360, then go to My Xbox / System Preferences / Memory

Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 8
Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 8

Step 8. Select "USB Mass Storage Device / Configure Now", then accept the warning

Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 9
Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 9

Step 9. After formatting is complete, a warning window will appear, click "OK"

Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 10
Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 10

Step 10. Now on the "Storage Devices" screen you should see a new option "Memory Block"

This indicates that the formatting was successful.

Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 11
Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 11

Step 11. Unplug your hard drive and then plug it into your laptop, download your media files (this will make sure the file types are compatible), plug it into your Xbox 360

Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 12
Format a Hard Drive for Use With Xbox 360 Step 12

Step 12. Your selected media should not appear in the "Portable" section of your video / music / photo library

Warnings

  • This method uses up to 16GB of hard drive, if you don't want to waste that amount of space, this guide is not for you.
  • Formatting the hard drive will erase all data. Backups must be done first!
  • This guide was first created with a Windows 7 laptop and Xbox 360 using the latest firmware and dashboard on 2010-20-12.

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