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Main => Consoles => Topic started by: sean2276 on April 08, 2005, 10:30:18 pm

Title: Can this work?
Post by: sean2276 on April 08, 2005, 10:30:18 pm

I would like to use an external harddrive on my Xbox and my pc at the same time. How can I do this?

Title: Re: Can this work?
Post by: TalkingOctopus on April 09, 2005, 12:08:52 am

I do not have an Xbox, but I think you could easily have 2 partitions on the hard drive.  One for the xbox and one for the PC.

Title: Re: Can this work?
Post by: AmericanDemon on April 09, 2005, 12:22:58 am

Nope wont work.  Tried it.  HD gets formatted by the xbox for its file system.  You can access the HD from a PC via FTP but thats about it.  Sorry man!

Title: Re: Can this work?
Post by: M3talhead on April 09, 2005, 05:56:30 am

I've turned my xbox into a fileserver already using a Xenium ICE and a 120Gb WD. What are you wanting to do exactly? If you just want to store files and play games, you can still do this. With the way I have mine setup, there is an entire partition (F:) configured for only the storage of data files. I keep the xbox on and access them from my desktop via a mapped network drive. The C: holds all of the important program files the xbox needs to run dvds and play games, while the E: is where I store all the xbox games I've imaged.

Using this configuration, I can watch movies, play xbox titles, listen to uploaded mp3s, stream incoming internet radio stations, catch up on the latest weather reports, check out RSS newsfeeds, play a number of console emulators, and serve files over the LAN.