well if were going to bash ms for banning a guy for breaking the rules even though its for there benefit then we should also bash steam for doing the same thing

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=838640

he didn't?  hmmm

GER_v3n3 further stated that: "The EULA says in Germany, that youre not allowed to reverse engineer anything associated with Xbox... its a grey area, but Ive been banned for less before"

You can't be serious. Skydrive is too small unless you want to pay a bunch of money, it's limited by your internet speed, and isn't compatible with all devices.yyou just wrote a gigantic post that reads like a Microsoft PR piece. I have many Microsoft and windows products. That does NOT mean I want an external drive to effectively become only usable on an Xbox unless I reformat it. That's just asinine. And ditto ps4 if they pull that crap there.

Agreed we should call out bs everywhere if it's this blatant and stupid.

cut the quote trees when you quote people please!

I wouldn't consider that reverse engineering. He's showing how to complete format the HDD back to standard. Hardly showing people how to get into everything.

yes, well evidently microsoft and ger_v3n3 consider it reverse engineering...  Perhaps the only way to be as specific as he was with the issue was to reverse engineer it?  It's certainly above my level of understanding, but either way, both sides considered it reverse engineering...

That isn't "techy".

Granted, it may be a little beyond the neophyte user, but it isn't "techy".  The way to resolve it isn't to open up the barn door and let the cows out.  The way to resolve it is to write a support document on how people can revert an external HDD from an Xbox One formatting to a standard Windows/PC formatting.  Likewise, offer instructions on how to dual-partition a HDD so you can use one-half for PC content and the other for Xbox One content.

Understand.  The Xbox One partition on the HDD is for DRM content ONLY.  Stuff you purchased through Xbox LIVE.  Not your personal music or video collection. 

Windows 7:

Click Start.
Right-Click Computer and select Manage.
Expand Storage and double-click Disk Management.  The Disk Management console will appear.

(If not connected, connect the external HDD)

Right-click the external HDD and select Delete Volume.
Click Yes.
Right-click the unallocated space and select New Simple Volume.
Click Next.
Select Next again. (Unless you want to split the drive into two partitions, then set the partition to the size you want.)
Select a drive letter, then select Next.
Set the format for the drive to NTFS (should be defaulted), then type a name for the partition (i.e. External HDD), the click Next.
Click Finish.
If prompted to make the partition Dynamic, select No.

Done.

Windows 8 is roughly the same steps. 

These are simple, straight-forward steps.  Not rocket science. 

Always amusing how someone posting his side of the story is like a FACT and nobody do not even considerate that this guy got removed for more than that maybe? And he is just showing what he needs to show to sound like a poor victim :)

Or they could just support standard NTFS partitions on xb1 with no hassles.