So I'm trying to browse my xbox hdd (750gb) with party buffalo and it does not see the hard drive on my ide ribbon....I'm not sure as to why this is.....I can see it with xplorer360 tho its not the correct lay out it seems the extended partitions are missing. I thought fatx was fatx and any software that can read fatx would be able to read both xbox and 360 devices. This bri gs me to the fact that the party buffalo source code is readily available and to the quest of how hard would it be to implies the reading of an original xbox hdd on party buffalo so that it can read other 360 and original xbox hard drives?
The Xbox 360 FATX filesystem includes additional file types that were not found on the original XBOX. To me, the little I know about the 360, its FATX filesystem is a refined/continued (??? - can not think of the correct word to use here - development, effort, ???) based upon the original Xbox's FATX filesystem. I've not looked into what differences, if any, exist between the two FATX implementations. Code developed by modders to access files on each system used those elements required for access to only one particular system -- not as a general purpose application for both consoles. If the 360 doesn't use extended partitions, the coders most likely didn't add code to support them to their software solely developed to access files necessary to modify the Xbox 360.
Here is something I found out of a random Google https://sourceforge.net/projects/fatx/?source=navbar Tho I can't find any clear instructions anywhere how to use the package files I would imagine it makes a FATX drive linux mountable like an ntfs, fat32,and ext drives. I also noted it was updated 5 months ago and the project began in 2014. I think I found this when I was googeling around for other ways to browse the original xbox hdd via pc.
install the debian package and there should be man pages for use of the various commands/functions. The other is a source package to compile and install on other Linux distributions.
