anyway i can upgrade hd without formating

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  1. marty3700

    marty3700 Member

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    I want to upgrade my xbox to a 160gb by using the one that is sitting in my computer as a secondary drive. Is there anyway I can put it on my xbox without having to reformat my drive? I have lots of good media on that drive that I want to keep on.

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    Unless you're going to have multiple hard drives hooked up to your Xbox, then I'd have to say no.

    Multiple hard drives - http://iso420.org/xbox/xtenderv2/index.htm

    If you use it as the primary, you'll have to format and partition it before the Xbox can use it.
     
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    no?? damn... is this a definite answer??
     
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    also, would i be able to form a partition of, say 100mb for the mod and misc stuff, (having that section formatted), and another partition for all my games and media? (unformatted)
     
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    Actually, I just remebered that the Xbox doesn't even use a PC file system for hard drives.

    It uses a modified FAT filesystem, so even if you used it as a secondary, your Xbox wouldn't be able to read it without it being formatted first.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FATX

    And yeah, it's a definite answer...
     
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    ok, thanks alot for your help man. I'll get right on backin my shit up on dvd's. lol
     

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