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This is honestly frustrating me. I want to partition some of my 1T Toshiba external hard drive for my XBOX 360. I have nothing on my hard drive right now.
I went into disk utility and partitioned 85gb renaming it to be 'XBOX'. The other one was left Untitled. So I plug it into my 360 and it tells me it's unformatted. Makes no sense to me since there is literally nothing on it. So I format it. Shows up fine on my XBOX, but there's just way too much space dedicated to it. So I go to see why I couldn't just simply pick one of the partitions, it shows up as this now: Am I not able to use my external hard drive for both my XBOX and my mac or something?
Dec 11, 2018 - Our top pick for best Xbox One external hard drive belongs to the Western Digital 4TB My Passport series. We used to recommend a 2TB drive. Jun 28, 2017. You want to transfer files,first you need to format the new drive using Xbox,not pc or Mac * After you format the new drive plug in the old HDD.
I do have access to a PC computer. Can I partition it on there and still able to use the external hard drive on my mac to upload things to it? You can do what you want, but you don't know how. So, see these articles.
Read before going further. Familiarize yourself with all of this. Now, let's go back to the beginning: Drive Partition and Format Restart the computer. At the chime press and hold down the Command and R keys to boot from the Recovery HD. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities' folder. After Disk Utility loads select the external drive (an out-dented entry with the mfgr.' S ID and size) from the side list.
Click on the Erase tab in the Disk Utility toolbar. A panel should drop down. In the drop down panel set the partition scheme to GUID. Set the Format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and click on the Done button when it is activated.
Click on the Partition tab in the toolbar. You will see something like this: Click on the Add + button below the circle. This will create a second partition half the size of the disk. Not quite like the below, but you get the idea. You now select the partition you want, then move its sizing handle left or right as required to change the size of that partition sort of like what you see above. Be sure to put in a name before clicking on the Apply button so you will know which partition is which. Select the small partition for your XBox.
Set the Format to MS-DOS (FAT), put a Name in, and you will see something like this: Click on the Apply button. You now have an XBox partition formatted for DOS and one formatted for OS X.
You can do what you want, but you don't know how. So, see these articles. Read before going further. Familiarize yourself with all of this.
Now, let's go back to the beginning: Drive Partition and Format Restart the computer. At the chime press and hold down the Command and R keys to boot from the Recovery HD.
Open Disk Utility in the Utilities' folder. After Disk Utility loads select the external drive (an out-dented entry with the mfgr.' S ID and size) from the side list.
Click on the Erase tab in the Disk Utility toolbar. A panel should drop down.
In the drop down panel set the partition scheme to GUID. Set the Format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and click on the Done button when it is activated. Click on the Partition tab in the toolbar. You will see something like this: Click on the Add + button below the circle.
This will create a second partition half the size of the disk. Not quite like the below, but you get the idea. You now select the partition you want, then move its sizing handle left or right as required to change the size of that partition sort of like what you see above.
Be sure to put in a name before clicking on the Apply button so you will know which partition is which. Select the small partition for your XBox. Set the Format to MS-DOS (FAT), put a Name in, and you will see something like this: Click on the Apply button. You now have an XBox partition formatted for DOS and one formatted for OS X. Apple Footer.
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