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Found an interesting article over at llamma.com. Because the Xbox360 will detect any mass storage device hooked up via USB, this makes it extremely simple to increase storage capacity and access all your media. When attaching a USB device, the Xbox360 provides an easy to use file browsing interface with the existing directory structure.

With the factory Xbox hard drive you cannot load any content to it unless its acquired from Live or ripped form CD’s. That does not do much for us that want our MP3 collection on our Xbox 360’s now.

All you need is the following:

- A hard drive of your choice. The drive of choice is not important as long as you can get a USB 2.0 adaptor for that type of drive.

- A USB 2.0 to ATA adapter for type of drive you will be using.

If your using a laptop 2.5″ drive that has a form factor height of 9.5mm or less then our ultra slim USB 2.0 case is perfect and looks great atop the 360’s stock hard drive. But just about any USB 2.0 adapter will work.

If you are using a 3.5″ IDE drive you will need the appropriate USB 2.0 adapter for that drive.

If you are using a drive larger that 32GB in size you will need Partition Magic or some other drive/partition utility that supports larger FAT32 partitions.

This is a really simple process. First assemble the drive with the USB adapter. Next plug the unit into your PC. If your running Windows XP most USB adapters will be automatically recognized and installed. If you are running an older operating system you may need to install a driver for the adapter

Next create a new FAT32 partition on the newly installed device. Again if the drive is larger than 32GB you will need to use a utility like Partition Magic to create the volume. If the drive is smaller than 32GB you can accomplish this via the “Computer Management” snap in found in the Control Panel -> Administrative tools. Last you need to format the volume. Same rule applies for formatting as well; if it is larger than 32GB you will need some other utility like partition magic to format. Windows does not support creation and formatting of devices larger than 32GB.

Windows 98 can create and format partitions up to 127GB. If you have 98 installed or a 98 boot disk with FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.COM you would have all you need for up to that 127GB mark.

Once you’ve got it all done you should be able to load content to the drive via windows. Plug it into your 360 and go to media and select portable device and bam.. there’s YOUR media.

Enjoy!