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

I donwloaded roblox and it still works even after I put it on PC mode, upload a file, and put it back in Xbox mode

this is what he said

hopefully you're on pc so you can read it lol

I thought some antivirus softwares did that but maybe not

Sounds like a modied intrusion prevention system (IPS).

yeah it does something with windows internally apparently

Guys, how can I make my NVME a bootable drive?

Don't you just go into the bios at startup and select your boot order? So long as you have your system installed on that drive

That's the thing, the NVME has no boot OS installed

I tried cloning the drive but it deleted 800+GB of the total capacity when I did

Ah shit, you forgot to clone all the partitions.

Well, what you can do is if you have your original drive, reformat your NVME and try again. Make sure you clone all the partitions. You might also try going into drive manager and freeing up the rest of the space on that drive by creating a partition (an unallocated one in this case)

A couple options there for you. What cloning software are you using? Recheck the vids. There's also vids on YT on how to manage your partitions and whatnot

just fresh install and call it a day

First off, if the drive has no boot OS installed you're not going to be able to boot to it. Secondly, if you cloned it will be the exact same size as the drive that you cloned from, you later have to go in and expand the partition table to take up the rest of the space of your larger drive (I'm assuming your new MBME drive is bigger than whatever you clone from). Third, depending on how old your system is, your system may not be able to boot from NVMe drives. However if it's been made in the last five or six years you should have no problem with that.