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Xbox 360 + USB Flash Drive = Makeshift Memory Card?

DeadOnArrivalDeadOnArrival Registered User regular
edited March 2007 in Games and Technology
My new Xbox 360 was delivered today, premium system of course, and lo and behold, as if to kick me in the jaw for hoping for a problem free installation, I load it up and Error 68 pops up. Hard drive failure. Attempting to connect and disconnect the hard drive proved futile, so I called support who agreed to send a new one free of charge within 10 working days.

Now I have a console with no hard drive, no way to play the 4 original Xbox games I wanted to try it with or access Live. I can play the 3 Xbox 360 games I bought for it, but can't save progress. This is all boiling down to my question. I do not want to buy an overpriced memory card to access more functionality until the new hard drive shows up, but I do have a 2Gb usb flash drive. I'd imagine with the Xbox 360 being a modern console with 2 USB ports on the front, it would accept these as makeshift memory cards to store data on. Is this possible?

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Why don't you just try it?

    I don't think they do, but it's worth a shot.

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  • bigwillchbigwillch Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    You can plug in usb drives to let the xbox access any music and photos on it, but it wont let you save games or user data or anything useful. Which is bum.

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  • ZhouZhou Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Something about the files being accessible through common methods.

    They don't allow stuff like that, they want you to use their memory unit.

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  • AiranAiran Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Haha, allow you to use 2GB USB drives instead of their overpriced 64MB (and soon 512MB!) cards? Yeah right.

    But seriously, I haven't been able to get it to work myself. Like others said, best you can do is access music/video files from the drive.

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  • DeadOnArrivalDeadOnArrival Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    That sucks. The only reason I can think for it is MS are just being assholes and not allowing users to use multipurpose affordable hardware to be operable with their console.

    You'd have thought they'd at least price their memory cards fairly in such a case.

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    It also might be so save files can't be easily transferred to a PC and hacked.

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