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I just bought a new 16 Gig USB 2.0 flash drive, I would like to seperate it into two devices so I can use about 4 Gig for my Xbox 360 crap, and have the remaining 12 Gig or so for school stuff as well as whatever I need it for, can anyone help me do this? I'm running Snow Leopard but I have parallels if you can only give advice for PC programs or operations
 

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Sounds like you not only want it to be separate drives, but you may also need it to be different formats? First thing I would do is try to partition it, but I could only tell you how to do so in Windows...
 
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I just bought a new 16 Gig USB 2.0 flash drive, I would like to seperate it into two devices so I can use about 4 Gig for my Xbox 360 crap, and have the remaining 12 Gig or so for school stuff as well as whatever I need it for, can anyone help me do this? I'm running Snow Leopard but I have parallels if you can only give advice for PC programs or operations

The short answer is that you cannot do this.

Here is the reason:
The Xbox and mac both see a flash drive as removable media, and thus only allow one partition to be created on the media. The mac may allow the flash drive to be mounted as a normal drive (and thus have multipple partitions), but it still would be incompatible with your xbox's settings.

The xbox formatting also overwrites all other data on a thumb drive. You are best off with a cheaper lower speed 4GB drive dedicated to the xbox, and using the 16GB to stores school files.
 

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Sounds like you not only want it to be separate drives, but you may also need it to be different formats? First thing I would do is try to partition it, but I could only tell you how to do so in Windows...

I have parallels running on my mac so if you could tell me how to partition it that would be swell
 

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The short answer is that you cannot do this.

Here is the reason:
The Xbox and mac both see a flash drive as removable media, and thus only allow one partition to be created on the media. The mac may allow the flash drive to be mounted as a normal drive (and thus have multipple partitions), but it still would be incompatible with your xbox's settings.

The xbox formatting also overwrites all other data on a thumb drive. You are best off with a cheaper lower speed 4GB drive dedicated to the xbox, and using the 16GB to stores school files.

Thanks, and if I am unable to format it correctly, I guess I will be either going without, or buying another drive
 
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Format it fat32 on the pc then when you put it in the 360 format it with custom settings and make tell the xbox to only use 2gb or something.
The xbox partition should be secondary and hidden by default in windows/mac.
 

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The short answer is that you cannot do this.

Here is the reason:
The Xbox and mac both see a flash drive as removable media, and thus only allow one partition to be created on the media. The mac may allow the flash drive to be mounted as a normal drive (and thus have multipple partitions), but it still would be incompatible with your xbox's settings.

The xbox formatting also overwrites all other data on a thumb drive. You are best off with a cheaper lower speed 4GB drive dedicated to the xbox, and using the 16GB to stores school files.

Thanks, and if I am unable to format it correctly, I guess I will be either going without, or buying another drive
 
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i just tried the above what i just did on my 2gb forza usb stick and it works fine, the 360 don't partition it it makes hidden folder for its data.
 

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Thanks, I shall try that momentarily

It worked, thanks

And thank you to everyone
 
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