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Okay, so, as we all know, the Xbox live Spring update has brought in support for USB drives as storage devices on Xbox 360. When I got the update, the first thing I did was to format the remaining 1.6gb on my 8gb USB drive for Xbox storage space. I used it to store primarily my Gamertag, along with a few things such as avatar items, and some small game saves. I got a warning about performance being low, but I didn't really expirience any issues wiht it.
After a while, I started to run out of space on my 20gb HDD, so I thought I'd use the full 8gb avaliable on my USB drive for Xbox storage. First, I deleted some map packs and stuff off of my HDD to make room, and then transferred all the Xbox content on my USB drive back to my HDD and removed the xbox 360 storage formatting. I then plugged the USB drive into my computer, and took everything else off of the USB drive, which included things such as word documents, movies and music.
I plugged the same, now completely empty USB drive back into my xbox, and began formatting the whole memory stick for Xbox use. I got an error, stating that the device did not meet xbox requirements, and could not be used for storage because it failed a 'Data loss' test. I tried this several times, before starting to try and format just half of the 8gb drive for use. I kept trying to format it with smaller and smaller partitions, but nothing works. I get the same error about failing Data loss tests and not meeting performance requirements every time.
I've since plugged the USB drive back into my PC, and tried formatting it as FAT32 using the standard Windows formatter. This succedded, but I'm still getting the same error message on the Xbox, about failing a data loss test. I even intentionally formatted the drive as NTFS, which I know isn't compatible, and then reformatted it using the xbox to FAT32. This didn't work either.
In short, I fail to understand why the drive worked before, and passed the performance tests, but won't now. For reference, the flash drive I'm using is an 8gb Cosair Flash Voyager. Has anyone else expirienced this problem, or have any suggestions as to what I could do? Thanks in advance.
tl;dr: I formatted a USB drive for xbox storage, worked fine until I reformatted it with a higher capacity. Doesn't work on Xbox at all now. Suggestions?
After a while, I started to run out of space on my 20gb HDD, so I thought I'd use the full 8gb avaliable on my USB drive for Xbox storage. First, I deleted some map packs and stuff off of my HDD to make room, and then transferred all the Xbox content on my USB drive back to my HDD and removed the xbox 360 storage formatting. I then plugged the USB drive into my computer, and took everything else off of the USB drive, which included things such as word documents, movies and music.
I plugged the same, now completely empty USB drive back into my xbox, and began formatting the whole memory stick for Xbox use. I got an error, stating that the device did not meet xbox requirements, and could not be used for storage because it failed a 'Data loss' test. I tried this several times, before starting to try and format just half of the 8gb drive for use. I kept trying to format it with smaller and smaller partitions, but nothing works. I get the same error about failing Data loss tests and not meeting performance requirements every time.
I've since plugged the USB drive back into my PC, and tried formatting it as FAT32 using the standard Windows formatter. This succedded, but I'm still getting the same error message on the Xbox, about failing a data loss test. I even intentionally formatted the drive as NTFS, which I know isn't compatible, and then reformatted it using the xbox to FAT32. This didn't work either.
In short, I fail to understand why the drive worked before, and passed the performance tests, but won't now. For reference, the flash drive I'm using is an 8gb Cosair Flash Voyager. Has anyone else expirienced this problem, or have any suggestions as to what I could do? Thanks in advance.
tl;dr: I formatted a USB drive for xbox storage, worked fine until I reformatted it with a higher capacity. Doesn't work on Xbox at all now. Suggestions?