xbox hard drives

[toxic chicken]

i have an xbox [the old kind, not the 360] which has a dead hard drive. its definitely the hard drive, i tried it in another power supply and it still kept making loud clicks. i have two other drives i can use, but the xbox doesn't recognize them so i'm assuming i need to format one to make the xbox use it. any ideas how to format it so it'll be recognized?

 

[mqudsi]

Hey toxic,

XBox hard drives are formatted in the FATX filesystem, you'll need to switch the drive over to that before you can use it.

It seems that in order to do so you need access to a working XBox hard drive so you can copy over the initial data.

See:
Xbox-Scene Tutorial: Installing a New Hard Disk Drive to your Xbox
xbox harddrive replacement

 

[toxic chicken]

It seems that in order to do so you need access to a working XBox hard drive so you can copy over the initial data.

damn. lol.

 

[aligator]

i read an article in popular science about how to add more space to tyvo or whatever its called and it didn;t require formatting

 

[mqudsi]

TiVo is different from the XBox.

 

[aligator]

yeah but wouldn't it be the same concept

 

[mqudsi]

No, it wouldn't. They both have different hardware configurations and expect different things of them.

 

[Mak 2.0]

yeah but wouldn't it be the same concept

No. That would be like expecting the XBOX to use Mac software. 2 totally different system that are not interchangeable.

 

[aligator]

thats not what i meant what i was saying was its just adding hardrives why would it need to be configured

 

[{Ron!n}]

Because each Hard Drive has a different purpose. PC HD does something and the XBox HD does something including saving game files, it also runs the XBOX system. Thats why when you modify the TIVO to install a bigger HD you have to connect it to a PC and edit the HD's firmware.
Everything uses a different system so you have to edit it to use that sytem, thus the need for another Xbox.

 

[aligator]

oh okay would you need the same thing between xbox adn th 360?