Seagate 500Gb external drive

Discussion in 'Storage Devices' started by caribe, Jan 30, 2008.

  1. caribe

    caribe Geek Trainee

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    Hi all,

    i bought the above drive as a portable main storage hard drive for my mp3s, movies and photos etc. The set up was easy (plug and play) and everything is working fine re dragging and dropping new files into it.
    I also wanted to use the drive to watch my films from using my xbox360 (connects with usb 2.0). The thing is the xbox wont reconize the drive, i have been told recently that the seagate would be in NSTC where as the xbox360 will only reconize FAT32 drives.
    My laptop runs vista as its op sys.
    I have tried converting the drive using power quests' partition magic but it keeps erroring out and not perfroming the operation.
    Can anyone point me in the right direction so i can convert my drive to fat 32?
    Also what are the pros and cons of the two formats ?

    Thanks

    paul.
    ps the xbox360 reconizes my mates 4 gig flash drive.
     
  2. donkey42

    donkey42 plank

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    before i start looking for a solution, is the HDD partitioned, as, i don't think vista will regognize multiple partitions on a flash drive, i think vista will only recognize the first partition unlike Linux & i presume BSD, but TBH i don't know what filesystems PS/3
    don't you mean NTFS

    BTW: partition magic is crap, a few HWFers also hate it as much as me,

    Acronis Disk Director Suite is much better for partitioning[ot]unless Symantec has recently bought acronis and rewritten acronis's software as they have a habit of doing at Symantec[ot]if it works, leave it alone[/ot]don't rewrite it because you think you know better
     

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