I'm having an issue with my Xbox 360 harddrive

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My 360 has the internal 4gb hdd and I recently bought a 320gb hdd to plug in to it. When I got it, I just plugged it in and it showed up that it had 300-something gb storage but now, when I go in there it says that it is not formatted. So, I tried formatting it and it keeps saying there is an error and it can’t format…

Is there any other way of doing this? Is mine defective???

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Does that have a USB interface? If it does just plug it into a PC and see if it mounts up. If it doesn’t, then it’s probably toast. If it does it looks like something’s wrong w/the Xbox.

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Nah, it doesn’t plug into the usb slot. It’s like this: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/320GB+Media+Hard+Drive+for+Xbox+360/3724705.p?id=1218428664064&skuId=3724705&st=xbox%20360%20hard%20drive&cp=1&lp=1

So it’s toast huh? Can you point me to a good kind to get?

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I’m not up on Xbox stuff, but you can get an adapter cable that will allow you to plug the drive into a PC to check it out.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/eForCity+-+Hard+Drive+Transfer+Cable+for+Microsoft+Xbox+360+-+Gray/1306929699.p?id=mp1306929699&skuId=1306929699

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Thanks for the help. I have another external hdd that has the USB and it holds 250gb… Maybe I’ll just check it out.