ANSWERED 2.5 1tb laptop hard drive in RGH console: How to use all available space?

[silentcell]

I just got my system in and I've been doing some research for a while now on this, but I can't really find a definitive answer to what I'm trying to understand about this whole thing.

I know I can upgrade the internal HDD to a laptop hard drive, and I've gone so far as to purchase a drive and insert it into my system. When I switched it on it read the drive as "unformatted."

So I wanted to know, is that all I have to do or do I format via the xbox? And if I do, will the entire 1tb be used? Or will only 32gb or something less than what the drive actually is be used as a result of formatting it?

Every time I look this stuff up I get two different ends of the spectrum. The videos are some good examples of what I'm talking about. Both on the same subject, but vastly different information. The one by Modded Warfare just says to slap the thing in and BOOM it works. The other says to format it and use like three different programs to get it to work, but it'll only get you up to 350gb.

http://youtu.be/2WLGQYtmfNM

http://youtu.be/VRanCwITI5A

So what's right here?
Thanks

 

[GeekHeat]

Just format it in the xbox and u will get the full capacity for your HDD.

 

[Antalpromille]

Yes just format it in the Xbox, it will use all space (you can only chose space used when formating usb drives).

 

[silentcell]

Straight forward answers. Love it. Thanks!

 

[gavin_darkglide]

FYI, the video with the programs is for creating a retail hdd. the 1tb wouldnt work on a retail, you would have to flash it with a 500GB ss.bin, and would only get half the capacity.