Okay that makes sense

Don't plug that into HP Laserjet Printers and try to boot it

Apparently it will lock up during boot if you do

How many computers do you have running right now? Also, you using them in any kind of cluster?

For now just 1 they all work except for the 2 newer laptops. Weirdly the 2 windows 98 ones work fine

And no I'm not using them in a cluster. One day I hope to have a lan going for gaming

Is this an internal hard drive that you're using with the Xbox or an external using over someone like USB? Well I personally have never had an Xbox, I know a friend who replaced the internal drive and his Xbox had a proprietary file system and partitioning that was very difficult to replicate without causing endless problems.

I haven't, do you know how that is different from antivirus or malwarebytes?

not sure tbh

the guy who recommended it to me uses both malwarebytes and DWS, so there must be some difference

Been a while since I used XBox but im pretty sure it supports external storage

I would try letting XBOX format it

then taking the drive over to linux and use something like gparted to shrink the storage partition xbox created

and then creating a partition for windows storage after

I know thats why I tried to parition it

That may work as long as the Xbox logically fills its partition and sequential order rather than randomly. Also, if you do shrink, shrink from the end not the beginning. considering the Xbox expects it to be the only thing on the drive, I imagine it will start at the beginning of the drive when looking for a partition.

Yes forgot to mention shrink from the end. Also I would try to plugging the HD into the Xbox after srhinking to make sure it recognizes the new partition size

If it reads the new partition size correctly you're better off than it thinking the partition is 2TB when it's actually only 1.3TB

If it reads 2TB I wouldn't even continue

Actually doing some reading

with XBox One it looks like that method wont work as the filesystem is proprietary to prevent piracy

But there's supposedly a converter that may make what you want to do possible

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/xba_console/formatted-a-external-to-use-on-my-xbox-one-but-now/fa908e22-cb7f-47de-a0bd-d43c5e262601

I let xbox format it but you cant partition it until you reformat it back to windows

Why do they have to make everything so difficult why cant I just format a single partition like you can on PC

Question

Can you update bios without a cpu

I upgraded my cpu but forgot to update bios RIP

Can anyone recommend a good X570 Mainboard and cooler for the ryzen 9 5900x

If you have your old CPU still that's the best surfire way. However some of your higher end boards have a BIOS flash button that will work without a CPU when you plug a properly formatted flash drive into a special USB port on the back.

Thank you so much that works

I put a text file in the hard drive and put it into the xbox it didnt make me reformat and when I plugged it back to my PC it didnt make me reformat and the file was still there

That definitely sounds promising

Imma download roblox on it from my xbox and see if the game stays there

Anyone?

It's possible depending on your board as David said. Some motherboards also allow for serial ISP programming of the BIOS without the CPU installed. I have done it using a BusPirate (https://www.adafruit.com/product/237?gclid=CjwKCAiAuoqABhAsEiwAdSkVVKWxKZP4fyH1bEw-_HgTwxLE3-5QaO6dzXKOHa18wphNlW8QeCMqyBoC9wcQAvD_BwE) but you can probably do it with an arduino

No recommendation from the board side as I'm an Intel fan, but I have the NZXT liquid cooler with 120mm rad, works great

I have a X270 ASRock Taichi, Don't have any experience with the x570 model but imagine it's also a good price to performance board.

Thanks everyone, I just installed the old CPU to be on the safer end