xbox 360 streaming question

BIGbungle

BIGbungle

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At the moment I use my pc to stream mp3's photos and videos to my xbox360 and on to my plasma. If I get an external usb hard drive can i stream from that or will it only work for media on my pc's c: drive?
 
Is this new USB drive going to be hooked up to the PC or xbox?

If its the PC , then providing you add the new drive locations to WMP sharing or tversity or whatever you use at the moment then yes it'll work.

If you're talking about plugging the drive into the xbox direct then i'm not sure (was thinking of doing this myself as I have a new drive coming and old PATA drive is going into an external enclosure) - I *think* it has to be formatted as FAT32 but quite how I manage that with windows XP on all my machines (win xp will only format 32Gb partitions with FAT32) I'm not sure.No doubt I can find a free utility if I need to though :)

Maybe someone else running an external drive on their xbox can confirm this.
 
You can format it as ext3 (used by Macs and Linux) and the 360 will read it. Then you don't get the partition or file size restrictions associated with fat32.
 
But can it still then be used by a computer running XP ?

Sorry for the semi-hijack but I'm considering sticking an old 200Gb HD in an enclosure and putting movies/media on it and it would be useful if both the PC and Xbox could use it by simply unplugging it from one and connecting it to the other.
 
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