Hi sifus,

I searched the net, and i got to know that we can use our usb thumdrive as storage devices. what we need to do is

1. get a minimum 1G thumb drive
2. download the latest firmware to support xbox-thumbdrive features into the thumbdrive
3. plug in into xbox
4. you are done

HOWEVER, when i plug in my thumbdrive, my xbox cannot detect the thumbdrive. please help!!!

IIRC there's a limit on the memory capacity, is it 8gb?

minimum requirement is 1G, max can go till 16G.

few possibilities

1) your thumbdrive is encrypted
2) your thumbdrive is contains multiple partition which xbox cannot regconise
3) your thumbdrive is formatted in a format unrecognizable by xbox
4) your thumbdrive is faulty
5) your xbox usb port is faulty
6) your xbox just doesn't like your thumbdrive
7) you actually stuck your thumb in instead of a usb drive

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Added on June 28, 2010, 2:25 pmor you can try to update via online instead of going thru d thumbdrive

latest dashboard update contains the usb drive updates

This post has been edited by greyshadow: Jun 28 2010, 02:25 PM

Oh and it must be formatted in certain format.. FAT32 was it?

ya... fat32 only
ntfs doesn't work

i am certain i was in fat32... hm... i will try it out.

wat if my xbox is modded?can i do the update via thumbdrive??

same question here

modded console can try to update via thumbdrive at your own risk.

the thumbdrive you can go system storage to see if the drive is detected. it does not necessarily formatted as xbox will format it later for it's own format that windows will not recognise.

Same here... wanna know...

what does it mean if my xbox cannot detect the thumbdrive?

Go to your xbox settings. Then under memory you need to prepare the thumbdrive to be used as storage. Which means format the thumbdrive into xbox native file system. Cheers.

Either one is faulty that is...simply

oh my... my xbox usb port is faulty than.. it cannot detect, i cannnot see anything in the memory setting in my xbox.

all 3 ports? try on other xbox to confirm. maybe you can bring them to your game shop

16gb limit?

lol i just use a 20gb old laptop IDE drive using external IDE-USB connector (just the ordinary rm35 connector). format to FAT32 and good to go.

my another 8gb thumbdrive also works perfectly. i can plug in both sommore.

Yea but i think u cant use it to store savegame/profile/demo/XBL arcade games/title update etc...

Don't just think, they can do whatever official harddrive can do. then onlyting is the memory cap is 16GB

LOL i was thinking that he use external HDD like the traditional way before this (the bigger size that is). I miss out he mention 20GB. Didnt think that he use it as a memory unit.