1TB HDD in original XBOX ????

[pomdownunder]

is it possible to put a 1TB hard drive into an XBOX, i want to use the xbox as a media center only. not play any games just watch movies

[cwispy]

You can put any size hard disk you like into the xbox really. Though the largest I have fitted for customers to date is a 750Gb.

[Woodstock]

just chuck 1TB in pc and access it via LAN from xbox to play movies .. wot I do ...works sweet ! ...saves ftping all movies over to xbox too .. slow process !

[nsdn]

Be aware that you need to set the cluster size to 32Kbytes for large partitions...and you will need at least two partitions F and a G for a 1 T drive, otherwise as soon as you have more than 256gig of data on a single partition the xbox will run out of allocation units and start writing over the beginning (which is bad). With cluster size of 32 you can have a max partition size of >500ish gig.

The xbox will work perfectly until it runs out of allocation units, I have had more than one xbox come to me because a chip installer does not know how to set large drives up properly, does his bit and it works OK, sends it off to his customer, then the customer tries fill his drive and suddenly finds his drive has dropped its guts....

If you know how its not very hard, but woodstocks suggestion is easiest providing you can get a cable to where ur xbox lives.

[pomdownunder]

thanks for the information, how easy is it to set the cluster size ??

[nsdn]

xboxpartitioner..not hard