Xbox 360, one up for Mac owners

Keith · 3rd October 2008, 21:36

Here is an odity
Microsoft seem to have shot themselves in the foot
If I take a bog standard 250GB USB Drive formatted using NTFS and plonk some Videos on it the Xbox 360 can not see it

If I format it as Mac OS Extended (HFS+) it work fine

Doh!

JohnDotCom · 3rd October 2008, 22:23

Yes but your not meant to know or try that.

GreyGhost · 3rd October 2008, 22:31

Macs can't see NTFS formatted drives without third party software.
Paragon, NTFS for Mac OS X 6.0 is one example. Also produced for Linux.

cjmillsnun · 4th October 2008, 12:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grey Ghost

Macs can't see NTFS formatted drives without third party software.
Paragon, NTFS for Mac OS X 6.0 is one example. Also produced for Linux.

GG I think you got the wrong end of the stick.

The XBox 360 couldn't see the NTFS device.

GreyGhost · 4th October 2008, 12:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by cjmillsnun

GG I think you got the wrong end of the stick.

The XBox 360 couldn't see the NTFS device.

I do not get the wrong end of the stick. Just added info for Mac users. Perhaps if I had added the caveat "either" it would have more sense.

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