

We need to be able to move files between our Computer, USB drive, and internal drive. ***instructions on formatting*** ***discuss hard drive sleep*** An external USB hard drive of any size (3.5" or 2.5") will work, but it must be formatted in FAT32. Your 360 is capable of reading any USB FAT32 mass storage device. I'd recommend waiting to replace your current hard drive until you feel comfortable with the other aspects of this guide. If your current hard drive isn't big enough, you're going to need to replace it with a new internal drive, or add an external USB hard drive. To disable accidental Live connections go to System Settings -> Family Settings -> Console Settings Profiles can be saved on an internal drive or memory unit (MU), but not on a USB drive.Ī JTAGed 360 has no business on Xbox Live. Is your current hard drive big enough? You can replace it with a bigger off-the-shelf 2.5" drive, or keep your games on an external usb drive (3.5" or 2.5") plugged into one of the 360's USB ports.Īs of now, you can't use title updates, DLCs or play Xbox 1 games without at least a small internal drive. Each game takes between 3 and 7 gigabytes. If you're going to store your games on the hard drive, you're going to need a lot of space. Now that your 360 is JTAGed, how do we make the most of it? There's more than one way, and so we'll need to make a few decisions. If the 360 is a lot like any computer, why run only Microsoft approved games? Why not unapproved games and applications made by random hobbiest you never met on the internet? These are called "Homebrew". Or, use any USB hard drive (or even memory stick) to store your games. Buy a cheap OEM 500GB drive and put it in yourself without problems. But by dipping it in MS goo, we've had to pay a premium to simply upgrade a few more gigabytes. That hard drive that the 360 uses is a cheap off-the-shelf 2.5" laptop drive. MS lets us "install" games to the hard drive to speed up loading times, but we unnecessarily need the disc in the drive anyway as some sort of piracy check. Now that MS no longer controls our hardware, what can we do with it? Once inside, the 360 was freed from it's restrictions. Well, it took four years, but a hidden entrance into the 360 has been found. It has alway been capable of more, but MS never handed over the keys to unlock it. It does one thing and one thing well: Play 360 games. But being secret technology only full understood by it's creator, Microsoft, it's use has been tightly controlled.
