How Do I Format A Flash/usb Drive For Xbox

I would like to know how to format it so i can use more then 32G of the flash drive.I got a 64G flash drive and want to know how can i format it so i can use the full drive on my xboxs 360.I know when you want to format the full drive you need to do it on the computer but i forgot how.

Go to my computer, right click over the removable drive and select format

will it have to be fat 32 or will other file types be able to be used on 360.I was told if it is fat32 that i can only storage 4G-5G on a fat32 formatted drive at one time.

dont know, can try it

I mean what would i format it to if i was not going to format it to fat32?

It's only compatible with fat32, but fat32 can allocate as much as 32 gigs so you're limited to 32 gigs minus the 512 for system reserve.

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/accessories/usb-flash-drive

I think for the xbox format you have to actually do it on the 360, it is a special format that makes it unusable on other devices (it will show full capacity).

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/accessories/usb-flash-drive#348413dd4c7649009a90cce62c0111cb

it will format it to fat32, you just have to select your format

I keep getting told if i do it on the computer i can use passed there limit when it comes to space but i am not sure.

I am trying nothing is showing up.

Doing a quick search into it I found a few sites leading to $30-40 programs that *claim* to be able to format up to 2 TB for the console to use.

What are you trying to do anyway, use this instead of getting a bigger HDD for the system? They aren't very expensive you know and If you need more than a 320 then you might want to start deleting games.

here:

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/accessories/usb-flash-drive

It is cheaper then getting a new system is why i wanted to try this path before i look in to buying a new system.But do you know any programs that can format 64G?

To the OP: Don't try this.

There's a chance you can be banned for tampering.

wait?Why would I be banned for this? how is it tampering?

This is officially endorsed by microsoft >_>

They have it limited to 32 GB to prevent piracy, using anything more than that requires third party software etc and would be considered console-bannable.

You can get a larger hard drive without buying a new system, the HDDs are sold separately.

It's probably a system limit, like memory allocation. But I very much doubt it's possible.

Edit: Ah okay, imposed limit, Thanks for the info Lillica.

Then i will look at that later and use my flash drive to house the new halo add on then this week when it comes out and things like that but I do not think it is bannable but i may be wrong.

also how dose this prevent piracy?

the max 32gb on fat32 comes far before the consoles got usb ports.
Do you have any credentials for this cause it seem highly unlikely that antipriracy is reason?

They simply removed in "newer" windows the option to do more than 32gb with fat32 because fat32 gets really inefficient with space on such big drives ( big cluster size).
So its more a move to push ntfs on bigger drives and just keep fat32 on small drives for compatibility with embedder devices (fat32 support takes less resources than ntfs support)

swissarmyknife (free program) can format fat32 to the full size of what fat32 support (cant remember it on top of my head).

we used to use this program back when kiss made hdd recorders where you could exchange the drive.
The hardware controller supported "big drives" but the os/firmware only supported fat32 (like xbox) so you had to format a big drive with fat32, which windows didn't offer anymore at that time.

swiss army knife fixed it