FAT32 and Large files

[lucid]

I guess this fits in this section...

Anyway, I have a 1.5TB external that I had configured to work with my Xbox 360. As you may know(or maybe not) when you configure a device to do this it formats it as FAT32. Well as you ALSO may know, you can't store any files larger that 4gb on FAT32 partitions. Which is a problem for me because I have a couple encrypted containers that I need to be larger than that. I also would like to be able to use my external for VMs and there's no way they are going to be less than 4gb. Sooo....

I've tried a couple of things. My most recent attempt was to split the external into two partitions and then try to configure it that way. The problem here is that I can't format the external to FAT32 using the Disk Management in Windows. So I was hoping that the Xbox would recognize that there are two separate partitions and I could format only one of them but no such luck. So what I plan to do now is to format one of the partitions to FAT32 ahead of time and THEN try to configure it to use the Xbox. I noticed that if the device is already FAT32 then it won't have to be reformatted to be able to work with the Xbox360. So I'm hoping that if one of the two partitions on my external are already FAT32 it will recognize that and not need to reformat the whole thing to FAT32, thus allowing me to use it with the Xbox360 with the one partition, and store large files on the other partition. Do you guys think this will work?

Also, if it doesn't, do you know of any way to store files larger than 4gb on a FAT32 filesystem? Or any other filesystem types that the Xbox will recognize?

[flowjob]

About the VM file size problem:
On most newer VMs (e.g. Virtualbox) you can use either one large file, or multiple separated smaller files as storage.
On Virtualbox for example check "Split into files of less than 2GB" when creating a new virtual disk storage...
And you can still use a fixed size or dynamically allocated storage...

Make (at least) two partitions.
If XBox doesn't support multiple partitions, then the first one will have to be the one with FAT32 so the XBox can detect it (like with USBs in windows, only the first partition is detected (for security reasons))
Then format the second with anything you want (I guess it's gonna be ntfs if you want files larger than 4GB and still want to use that prtition on windows...)

[WirelessDesert]

Here you go, 3 minutes of googling and BOOM!, http://www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/bypass-fat32-4gb-file-limit.215625/


::Edit:: They apparently support exFAT. http://www.wikihow.com/Format-a-Hard-Drive-for-Use-With-Xbox-360

[lucid]

Actually I found my own solution. Thanks for the input, but what I ended up doing was split the external into two partitions, formatted them both as FAT32, configured one partition to work with the Xbox, then reformatted the other partition afterward as NTFS.

Oh, and the Xbox doesn't actually support exFAT I tried.