Hi,

I recently bought myself a Western Digital 640GB Passport external harddrive. My primary purpose was to use it to back up my computer, as well as put all my downloaded music, movies, tv shows, etc. on it so that I could plug it into my Xbox 360 and watch them on my TV. Out of the box, it came formatted with NTFS, but because Xbox can only read FAT32, I used the partition shrink tool in Windows 7 to make the NTFS partition 300GB, then downloaded and used a FAT32 tool for the other 300GB and made it the primary partition (Everything since Windows XP can't partition as FAT32, at least not larger than 32GB). Everything seemed to work great at first - I put a ton of files on the harddrive, then watched some of them using my Xbox. However, after I moved my harddrive back to my computer, it claimed the drive was unformatted and could not read the data. I then tried the drive again on my Xbox and found that it too did not recognize the drive. My only guess is that somewhere along the lines, the partition table was corrupted because Windows hates FAT32. My neighbor has a 500GB Western Digital harddrive that is entirely FAT32 and he never has this problem, so I'm sure it's possible somehow.

Can someone explain to me what is going on and help me fix it, or at least help me get my data back?

Thanks!

This post has been edited by DaleArbo: Dec 31 2009, 10:59 AM