External HDD Setup

Darkness007

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Jan 21, 2012
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I have a freshly RGH'd Falcon that I did myself. I was able to get XeXmenu on there as well as FSD 2.2. I installed Saint's Row 2 as well as Assassin's Creed Revelations to my external 750GB hard drive. Both work fine when playing them through either FSD or XeXmenu. However, when I plug my external HDD into my computer, there is nothing on it and my computer says that it is empty. I was wondering why that is? Is that normal? If not, how can i fix it? I have a couple of my games backed up on my computer and i'd rather copy and paste them onto the HDD instead of having to install each one, one by one. Help will be much appreciated.
 

mikey63366

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Apr 15, 2011
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Was the drive formatted for the xbox? and not fat32?
If i remember you can't see the contents of the drives without using the correct software.
 

brett1

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like your being told mate take out the external hard drive and see if you can still play them 1st

party buffallo
 

Darkness007

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I know for a fact that they were installed on the external HDD because they do not show up in the games list if i have it removed. Also, when i click the right stick in FSD it says about 678GB free of 698, whereas on my computer, it says 698 of 698 free
 

superben51

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Jan 20, 2012
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could you try with a different computer? maybe its just something like that or try plunging it in and restarting the computer
 

InfamousJoe

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It sounds like he installed the games from the xbox, probably onto an xbox formatted part of the external drive. These files will be hidden and will not show up correctly on the computer without using special software. You can still copy games from the computer to the external drive using iso2god and those games will show up both places, provided you set FSD to look to that directory. I don't think they will show up in NXE dash as NXE dash will only look to the "content" folder.
 

talby71

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if you've formatted the external hard drive through the xbox 360 it wont show up on your pc without a program like Party Buffalo Explorer as it would have become like a Xbox 360 hard drive that way
probably just a folder named xbox360, if anything at all
it's the same as when you format a usb stick to use as a memory card
 
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bonkers1973

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trust me dude the games WILL NOT show up in fat 32
if they will not show then how are people supposed to tell they are there ????????:crazy::crazy:

that quote doesnt make any sense at all ....his hd needs to be formatted to fat 32 to enable the xbox to see the games