portable harddrive with movies on xbox

[cocker92]

hi guys, iv got a simple problem im not sure what to do about.
i have a small flash drive which, if i put a movie on i can watch a film thro my xbox no problem.
a friend has given me a small laptop hard drive which i can connect to my xbox via usb leads. iv put some films on that (it was formatted ntfs) but the xbox doesnt recognise it

any suggestions?

cocker92

[mp3boy]

NTFS is the problem. The 360 will only recognise drives that are formatted as FAT32 or HFS+ (mac format).

If they're divx etc films you can reformat the drive as FAT32 and it'll work but with a 4GB file size limit.

If they're WMV HD you'll need to get an app called MacDrive and format as HFS+ so you can put large files onto the drive, unless you have access to a Mac.

[cocker92]

its strange and now frustrating!
iv tried formating the hard drive both fat32 and the mac format, but the xbox isnt recognising either

any suggestions?

cocker92