Xbox 360 Save data on memory stick?

16gb will still be fine, Just want to know 100% that I can just plug a USB stick in and use that for running save data from. If I can, then that seals the deal and I buy one. The 250gb is just too much at the moment.
 
Any modern USB stick will work. You just plug it in and tell the console to use the device as Xbox 360 storage. You can install demos, games, save your games, host your gamer profile, etc. For all intents and purposes, it's equal to a HDD but not as spacious. :)

You can plug in an external HDD too but as mentioned above, the Xbox will only reserve 16GB of space. And you can only have two USB storage devices plugged in at once for a total of 2x16GB.
 
Aye 2x16gb, your USB stick and possibly HD have to pass a performance and integrity test though.
 
Here's a little question I have relative to the OP. If you copy the data created on the stick to a PC, and then back to the stick at a later date. Will you break the digital signature and render the data invalid?
 
Senture said:
Here's a little question I have relative to the OP. If you copy the data created on the stick to a PC, and then back to the stick at a later date. Will you break the digital signature and render the data invalid?
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It works ok I've done it with the MW2 map packs, but I guess it's really against the T&C and I should get some more USB sticks.
 
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Memphis said:
The 360 data can not be read on the PC.
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I'm not looking to read the data on a PC, just store it on there for some time. I only have a single 4GB stick, which is housing my Xbox 360 GT and saves as I don't have a 360 right now. Can I safely transfer the data off the stick (it is FAT32 formatted) and reclaim it till a later date without killing the data?
 
You can use as many memory sticks as you have as long as you dont want them all in at once. Also you can read xbox 360 data on the pc.
 
Senture said:
I'm not looking to read the data on a PC, just store it on there for some time. I only have a single 4GB stick, which is housing my Xbox 360 GT and saves as I don't have a 360 right now. Can I safely transfer the data off the stick (it is FAT32 formatted) and reclaim it till a later date without killing the data?
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Well I don't know what exactly finite has done and I don't know about 'imaging' the USB stick, but the Xbox data is completely hidden from view when looking at the stick on a PC. Possibly imaging the drive would work, but you can't just copy the data off in a normal sense.
 
You should be OK to copy stuff from the USB drive to your computer but you will have to do it in big chunks - whatever your USB drive capacity is. So if you've stored 1GB of stuff on a 16GB USB drive, you'll have to copy all 16GB across as the data is stored across multiple files occupying the whole USB drive.

In regards to the post above, I think the files are hidden by default.

EDIT: What I've written is probably tripe - I did try it myself once. I can't remember if it was successful or whether I got an error about Windows being unable to read the files, so was unable to copy.
 
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I used USB Xtaf GUI Version32 beta 3 to just drag and drop the files. The question is how did you put your GT and saves onto a FAT32 formatted stick? The 360 uses FATX.
 
Memphis said:
Well I don't know what exactly finite has done and I don't know about 'imaging' the USB stick, but the Xbox data is completely hidden from view when looking at the stick on a PC. Possibly imaging the drive would work, but you can't just copy the data off in a normal sense.
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Yep, the 360 creates a folder called Xbox 360 hidden on the drive, in there reside the data files.
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ic1male said:
You should be OK to copy stuff from the USB drive to your computer but you will have to do it in big chunks - whatever your USB drive capacity is. So if you've stored 1GB of stuff on a 16GB USB drive, you'll have to copy all 16GB across as the data is stored across multiple files occupying the whole USB drive.

In regards to the post above, I think the files are hidden by default.

EDIT: What I've written is probably tripe - I did try it myself once. I can't remember if it was successful or whether I got an error about Windows being unable to read the files, so was unable to copy.
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That's alright, just so long as the transfer back at some point doesn't kill the data.

finite said:
I used USB Xtaf GUI Version32 beta 3 to just drag and drop the files. The question is how did you put your GT and saves onto a FAT32 formatted stick? The 360 uses FATX.
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Using the conventional method made available from the system update. The 360 formatted the stick, then used the dashboard to transfer all the data from the 360 to the stick. The stick was FAT32 before connecting it to the 360, and after it is still FAT32.
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On second thoughts I'm not sure how it works as it isn't FATX apparently, but you don't have full access into the data partitions that appear as Data0000 and so on via windows.

To be honest I would just get another stick as you can't test the method now before risking your data.
 
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I've only got a 4gb memory stick at the moment to use, Which combined with the onboard memory is plenty for me. However, I was thinking of buying an external hard drive and using that and then just saving the USB stick.

One problem, I now know that when you put it in the Xbox, It formats it then fills it up with its own data, So on my 4gb stick there was 4gb of data on it. What would happen with a 250gb external hard drive? Would it just fill it up with 16gb worth then I could use the rest for my pc? If so, that would be preferable over buying a 16gb usb stick.

Hopefully that makes sense :confused:
 
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