Hello and need advice on Xbox360 setting up an external drive

[robrob]

Hi all, while I modded the original xbox's, I got lazy and paid to have my 360 modded for my kids (so I am missing some information about how it all works). Flash forward a few years and the xbox forgotten and the ext drive reformatted and reused.

Now I would like to revive the box and I am trying to figure out how to setup the HDD again to get back to where I was.

I have cr4xl mod chip, when I boot via eject button I see the xell reloaded v0.993-git-7466b6d blue screen and then it goes through the process of looking for the external drive...then servers but never boots to the dashboard I used to see.

I am looking for instructions on how to setup the HDD so it can boot to the a dashboard and when needed plug into my pc where I still have the app that let me add files to the external HDD. I see that I can use the xbox to format it in the right way but then I still need to figure out how to get it booting to the dashboard and showing any files that I place on the drive.

I hope that makes a little sense.

Thanks in advance...have searched high and low to figure this out...I am sure it is right under my nose but just not finding it.

 

[muzamil]

Make sure it is formatted as fat32.. And your xbox is jtag/rgh.. Then you need to go to storage and then hard drive and from at it.. And you hdd is ready to use

 

[muzamil]

Use xex menu to explore hdd files on xbox 360 and.. Use horizon to see file of hdd on pc..

 

[SpongeDoug]

I use FatExplorer to move stuff around on Xbox 360 drives and reformat them. - Note this program runs on the PC and you need to attach the Xbox 360 drive via the HDD Copy connector to read it - or if you're adventurous, pull the drive out and use a SATA usb enclosure.