![]() ![]() Go to Xbox Settings->Storage->(Your storage device)->Configure USB Storage, select 2. ![]() Create a new Fat32 primary (must be primary, otherwise you will end up formatting whole hard disk) partition of X GB (Space freed up in Step-1) ( Guide).(Replace X with any number of GBs you want to be available for Xbox) ( Guide) Shrink size of any existing partition (in my case 2TB NTFS partition) by X GB.The trick lies in the 2 options presented when you plug-in your hard disk and navigate to Settings->Storage->(your storage device)->Configure USB Storage: Bummer! Isn’t it?īut after experimenting with a SanDisk 8GB pen drive and a spare Western Digital 750GB Hard disk, I came up with an original (at least I think it is original) solution. Here is the reason all the guides required to have Fat32 file system only – because Microsoft Xbox 360 simply won’t support a file system developed by Microsoft and supposed to supersede Fat32. But I din’t find any guide which allowed to keep my existing data without converting the file system to Fat32. Because Fat32 file-system has certain limitation, it doesn’t allow files over 4GB size and I did not want to lose such files. But when I looked up online for a guide to do it, all the guides required the hard disk to either have Fat32 file system or required me to format the hard drive and create a Fat32 partition. I have an external hard disk with NTFS file system which is nearly full of “important” stuff and I want to use it with my Xbox 360. ![]()
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