12
UNDERSTANDING THE XBOX 360 FILE SYSTEM
Now that you can connect your PC to your Xbox
360 hard drive and see its files, here follows a
brief outline of the Xbox 360 file system.
The Xbox 360’s hard drive is split up into three
partitions.
For all the topics covered in this guide, the only
partition we’re interested in is Partition 3.
To view the contents of Partition 3, double-click
its entry in the list.
If you have at least one Profile on your Xbox 360’s hard drive and have downloaded at least some content
from Xbox Live, when you open up Partition 3 you see a folder structure similar to this:
The top folder (all 000s) is where the 360 stores
all media content you download, like trailers and
demos, and is available to all profiles.
The folders below relate to each profile you have
set up on your machine and are used to store the
game saves for that profile.
TIP:
If you have more profile folders showing than you have profiles currently on your Xbox 360, it’s
likely you have removed profiles from your machine but chosen to leave the content on the drive.
This content remains in a profile folder on your hard drive, but isn’t associated to an actual profile
through your 360’s dashboard.
