Xbox One Media Hub Instruction Manual Box Contents....................1 About the Xbox One Media Hub ..............2 Hardware Compatibility................3 Connecting the Xbox One Media Hub without Internal Storage ..... 4 Connecting the Xbox One Media Hub with an Internal Hard Drive....5 Hard Drive Setup Procedure................
Sync Button Pass through for easy controller syncing. ● 3 | Hardware Compatibility When you connect a compatible internal hard drive inside the Collective Minds Media and attach it to the Xbox One console the setup process will begin automatically.
4 | Connecting the Xbox One Media Hub without Internal Storage How to attach the Xbox One Media Hub 1. Line up the USB Attachment port first, and snap on the Collective Minds Media Hub to the left side of the Xbox One console as per diagram.
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Ensure it is securely all the way in. Place back on the Hard Drive Bay cover. 5. Line up the USB attachment port first, and snap on the Collective Minds Media Hub to the left side of the Xbox One console as per diagram.
6 | Hard Drive Setup Procedure 1. When the Xbox One console is powered on the “Set up external storage?” will appear. Choose “Format storage device”. 2. Next give the device a name and press enter (Menu button on Controller).
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3. Choose to install things by default on the Media Hub 4. Choose to format storage device at this point if you want to use the hard drive in the Media Hub . This is the last point at which you can cancel. After proceeding, the hard drive in the Media Hub TM will only be usable** on Xbox One consoles.
Manage game. You will then be able to move or copy content between storage devices. The built in Xbox One hard drive is seen as “Internal” in the drop down menu. The hard drive of the Collective Minds Media Hub will be seen as the “name you formatted” in the drop down.
A USB extension cable is provided so that the Collective Minds Media Hub with a hard drive installed, can be connected to any USB 2.0 (or higher) port on a PC/Mac to initialize and format the drive properly before Xbox One console usage (Step 5).
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3. You should get a window popup like this: 4. If so choose MBR and click OK and go to Step #6. 5. If you didn't get the popup then right click and select initialize the newly added drive under where it says the Disk # shown below. Click Initialize Disk.
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6. Now right click the unallocated space and click create a New Simple Volume shown below: 7. Follow the on screen wizard by clicking Next.
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8. Specify your volume size, default is fine, and now click Next. 9. Assign a drive letter to the drive and click Next. Default is fine.
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10. Format the partition and name the volume, default settings are fine. 11. Now click Finish and you are done the drive reset portion.
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12. Attach the Media Hub to your Xbox One console while on and follow the on screen prompts through the format procedure. Mac Initialization and Volume Creation for Media Hub Drive Reset A. First you need to find and open the application Disk Utility. You can find Disk Utility in / Applications/Utilities.
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E. You will have the option to initialize the disk. Click on "Initialize..." F. Once initialized Disk Utility will now show Initio INIC-3609 as a selection. In this case the disk volume is shown as 500.11 GB Initio INIC-3609.
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G. Select the Initio volume and then click on Erase at the top next to First Aid. H. Under "Format:" choose MS-DOS (FAT).
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I. Now choose "Erase..." and select "Erase" again when asked if you are sure. J. If asked to use the volume as a Time Machine Backup choose "Don't Use". K. In Disk Utility the volume will now be seen as UNTITLED. L.
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M. It is now safe to detach the USB cable. Your Media Hub with drive is now ready to be attached to your Xbox One console. Proceed to STEP 5.
11 | Trouble Shooting SYMPTOM POSSIBLE REASON RESOLVE METHOD No light on LED HD Not correctly attached. Ensure the Media Hub indicator. securely snapped on to the console. Available free storage Media Hub Hard Drive Go to Settings/Power & space visible in “My Games not fully detected by Startup and change power And Apps”...
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