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Anonymous Posted on Aug 24, 2014

Why is my Xbox 360 not detecting the 250 GB hard drive.

Not sure how it happened ,but the format currently is NTSC. it needs to be fat32. Is exFAT the same filing system as FAT32 ?The problem I am having is the console is not detecting the hard drive.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on May 26, 2007

SOURCE: Movie Formats To Work With Xbox 360

As you may have heard, with the Xbox 360 Flash Fall 2006 System Update they are adding support for WMV video playback from new sources. Videos can be streamed from a PC running Windows Media Connect, Windows Media Player 11, or the new Zune client player, and can also be played from Optical Disc and most USB mass storage devices. For all these sources, only the WMV video file format and codecs are supported. How do I know if a video file will work on the Xbox 360? Currently only the Windows Media Video (WMV) file format and codecs are supported. If you have a file with a ?.wmv? extension, then the odds are pretty good that it will work. Technical details on the types of files we support can be found at the end of this post, but the easiest way to find out if a file will work or not is to just try it. Hopefully after you click play the video will show up on your display, but if the content is not supported you will simply get an ?Unplayable Content? message blade from the side of the screen and then be returned to the Video blade. How do I create videos that will play on my Xbox 360? Windows Movie Maker, a standard feature of Windows XPSP2, will output WMV video files compatible with the Xbox 360 console. Either use the default settings when you finish a movie and click ?Save to my computer,? or just make sure that the output video format you select shows the file type as ?Windows Media Video (WMV).? Videos will usually look best when they are closest to the original resolution that they were created with. Try to create video files at least 360 pixels high in vertical resolution in order to minimize content upscaling on the console. If you decide you want finer control of the output video file format, download a version of Windows Media Encoder (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/) and then start encoding away. Optimal size and bitrate settings will vary depending on the source material you are encoding. As a general guideline though, 1.5 Mbps is a typical bitrate that should be suitable for most standard definition content, and 8 Mbps is a common bitrate for high definition content. Can I get more technical details about the kinds of files you support? WMV video files with the extension ?.wmv? are stored in a generic file container format known as ASF. ASF files can contain many different types of codecs within them. Xbox 360 supports most common WMV video codecs, as seen in the following chart: Supported Video Codecs: Name FourCC Windows Media Video 7 WMV1 Windows Media Video 8 WMV2 Windows Media Video 9 WMV3 Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile WVC1 There are some files with ?.wmv? extension that may play on a PC, but are unsupported on the Xbox 360 console. Windows Media Screen, Windows Media 9 Image (Photostory), and some older Microsoft codecs are unsupported, as seen in the following chart: Unsupported Codecs: Name FourCC Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V3 MP43 Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V2 MP42 Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V1 MP41 Windows Media Screen V9 MSS2 Windows Media Screen V7 MSS1 Windows Media Video 9 Image WMVP Windows Media Video 9 Image v2 WVP2 ISO MPEG-4 Video V1 MP4S Anamorphic content with nonsquare pixels is currently unsupported on Xbox 360 console, and will be displayed as if the pixels were square. If you want to play such content on your console, it is recommended that you re-encode the content in a square pixel format.

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Archeangel

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  • Posted on Mar 01, 2008

SOURCE: 360 drive only reads dvds, not xbox 360 games, just says put in an xbox 360 console.

You need to flash the drive with the old drive's key; otherwise the your xbox motherboard will not allow that drive to access the gameplay engine and will not allow you to play games.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on May 13, 2009

SOURCE: Xbox 360 Pro : To Play This Disk Error

Unfortunately , a new xbox360 game cant be played in a normal xbox (not xbox 360)

The problem is that the new xbox is way different on the inside than the original xbox is. Because it is way more powerful, you can put an old xbox game into a 360, and it will work fine (most of the time), but if you try the reverse there is no way to make it work.

Anonymous

  • 50 Answers
  • Posted on Jul 03, 2009

SOURCE: Game Won't load With Hard Drive in, But will Without harddrive

look for any corrupted file on your harddrive, instead of a normal icon for a file, it will show a yellow triangle and an exclamation point in the middle, delete it..

after that clear cache, to do this go to system settings, memory,
press y for device options, if you can see the rename and format option in the screen, you are in the right screen, press x, x, left bumper, right bumper, and then x, x, select yes,

even though you cannot see any corrupted files in all of the folders in the harddrive, you have to clear the cache..


if this doesnt work try deleting the saved game content to that specific game..

Anonymous

  • 340 Answers
  • Posted on Jan 29, 2010

SOURCE: Update failed when starting up brand new xbox!?

You can download updates to a cd rom,then try to update it that way,
Google, downloading updates to console.aspx.
Remember thumbs up if this helps.

Testimonial: "Hard drive is fine. Must be the corrupted update, called MS and they are making sure it will work when i send it back...again."

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