SLOgamer123 1 Posted January 29, 2013 I've buyed new hard drive, Toshiba StorE Alu2 750gb USB 2.0 ( http://www.toshiba.eu/hard-drives/portable/store-alu-2/px1709e-1hg5/ ). I've formated it on FAT32, upload some games and connected it to Xbox 360 Slim (it has RGH). But the Xbox won't recognize the drive. Please help me! I'm freaking out! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prayer 49 Posted January 29, 2013 Try a different USB port and wait a little, I also have a 320 gb WD external hdd and i takes about 5-10 seconds for the Xbox to recognise it lol. Usually I plug the hdd to the front USB ports. If that doesn't help you could also try using another program to format it like guiformat (I use it and it works just great!) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SLOgamer123 1 Posted January 29, 2013 I've formated it with this program too. I've waited for 15 minutes, nothing! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prayer 49 Posted January 29, 2013 Delete the primary partition of your hdd in Windows and try formatting it again as fat32. p.s. does Metro recognise it as a drive that can be configured? If not it could be that your hdd needs more power than the Xbox can provide. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BL4K3Y 96 Posted January 29, 2013 Does FSD see the HDD? The NXE/Metro dashboard will not see a FAT32-formatted HDD. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JPizzle 0 Posted January 29, 2013 not an FSD issue, use the correct section for your threads. Moved. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prayer 49 Posted January 29, 2013 Does FSD see the HDD? The NXE/Metro dashboard will not see a FAT32-formatted HDD.That's true, @SLOgamer123 try formatting it to ntfs and then go to NXE/Metro and see if it recognises it. If not, then you should have an idea what's wrong with it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BL4K3Y 96 Posted January 29, 2013 That's true, @SLOgamer123 try formatting it to ntfs and then go to NXE/Metro and see if it recognises it. If not, then you should have an idea what's wrong with it. The XBOX 360 won't see NTFS drives/partitions. FSD will see FAT32 drives, but the NXE/Metro dashboard will only see those formatted as FATX (the XBOX file system). OP: You can tell if FSD has recognised the HDD when you click the right thumb stick - you will see available drives and free space at the top right-hand side of your screen. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prayer 49 Posted January 29, 2013 Well "see" as in the option in the storage tab to configure the USB to work with nxe as a memory unit to save gamefiles. If in that case the console could recognise the device at all it could mean that the partition is not right, in case the xbox couldn't recognise the hdd at all it would mean that it cannot provide enough power for the hdd to work. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
irishdave 236 Posted January 29, 2013 Format the hard drive ony our xbox 360 make sure you use the USB at the back. Front usb share the same system bus. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SLOgamer123 1 Posted January 29, 2013 It works now! I've formated it again, pluged bought USB's in the back of Xbox and waited for 15-20s and it works now! Thanks for your support! You are the best! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites