How do you use "SWISSKNIFE" to partition my new Ha

[aubrey_76]

I have purchased a Seagate 100 GB Portable External Hard Drive. I downloaded the "SWISSKNIFE" application to make this hard drive work as an added on Hard Drive on my Xbox360 using the USB port on the back of the system. In the Seagate instruction manual it says this:

"Your drive is factory formatted for a FAT32 system and no further formating is needed for Windows operating systems"

I read the tutuorial on here and it said that your drive has to be formatted to FAT32. With the drive already in the FAT32 format, I added an mp3 music file to the external hard drive by plugging it into my PC. After I added the file, I then plugged the External Hard Drive into the USB on the back of the Xbox360. I scrolled to the Media section, then music, and it was not there. The option to use portable device was shaded out so I could not use that one.

I read on here to download SwissKnife to format the external hard drive. When I start SwissKnife up and click on my External Hard Drive, this is the info it is giving me:


-On Devices, I click on "USB Host Adapter 1"
-In the right info window it says-
Volume File System Media Type
SEA_DISK[F:] FAT 32 Fixed


I then clicked on "Partition and Quick Format" on the left toolbar and this is the information it gave me:


Partition Size[MB] Volume Label File System Status
Extended 95385 N/A N/A
Logical 95385 SEA_DISK FAT 32 formatted
Free Space 0


....And this is as far as I have made it. I did not want to mess the External Hard Drive up, so thought I would stop and ask the pros here on what I need to do. Please it is not too much trouble, step by step would be the best......thanks

[dtmcnamara]

email me at dtmcnamara@gmail.com and I can help you out

[Meat $hield]

email me at dtmcnamara@gmail.com and I can help you out

or, how about you guys talk about it here so EVERYONE can benefit from the discussion?

[dtmcnamara]

OK. MY TUTORIAL: (only posting once)

Pretty much go to:

http://www.download.com/3001-2248_4-10465130.html

and download SwissKnife

when its done downloading click setup and install the program

once installed open the application and on the far right click CONTINUE

there should be a window that pops up and on the left side it should say devices

under USB there should be a few "HOST ADAPTERS"

find out which one it the USB hard drive that you are wanting to use

once you highlight the USB Host Adapter click, in the top left corner, the forward arrow

now at the bottom of the screen there should be a few buttons that pop up, click Delete (this will delete all data on the hard drive)

click yes and follow to the next page

now you can change the partition type and file system ect...

go to FILE SYSTEM and move it to FAT32

you can also rename you USB drive, if wanted

now above the HELP button you should see a bar with the number 1 next to it

move the bar all the way down to the max number, this will create you useable HD space

now click CREATE

one the process is finished exit out of the program and click OK

now put some song, pic, movies onto the HD and hook it up to the XBOX 360

the HD should be recognized as a PORTABLE DEVICE

NOTE:

if your HD has an external power supply turn your 360 on first then your HD, let the HD start all the way up (wait 1-3 min) then plug it into the USB port)

if your HD take power from the USB cord plug it in and play

to view all you data it will be under MEDIA and then PORTABLE DEVICE

Thanks for more help/info please feel free to email me at dtmcnamara@gmail.com (creator of this tutorial)

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