Xbox 360 and toshiba 3tb external

so i was at walmart in seekonk, ma last nite.. i wanted to store digital copies of my dvd's so i no longer have to deal with the actual dvd's everytime i my family and i wanted to watch movies...
1 sales guy said i would need to get the external hard drive and wd tv live box.. connect the external to my wireless and the wd tv box to my tv.. i would be all set and the external would not work directly with the xbox 360.
another sales guy said no, just connect it to the exbox and it will work.. the xbox will play the movies..
now, i got hom how with just the exteranal, found out it had to be formated to fat32.. which the proper software "acronis disk director 11" will do the job - but costs $50.. neither one of the sales guys said anything about it being formated to fat32
so here i am with my toshiba 3tb and still in the same predictament as before i even went there last nite.. just now i have an exteranl sitting on my kitchen table and less $120 in my wallet.
so pi$$ed off.. do these people really know what the hell they are talking about? gonna go back up there at 10am when they open up and gonna talk to the store manager and give them a piece of my mind! and what's with the 10am crap? why don't they open at 9am like everyone else?

"so i was at walmart in seekonk, ma last nite.. i wanted to store digital copies of my dvd's so i no longer have to deal with the actual dvd's everytime i my family and i wanted to watch movies..."
Did you mean Best Buy? Otherwise, you have taken a wrong turn.
That said, you don't need Acronis to reformat the drive to FAT32. Here's a free tool to do it:
http://www.verbatim.com/index/support.php?lang_id=1&cat=9&action=downloads&pid=5411&aid=197
Also, you don't need any other special devices, the external alone should work..
http://www.ehow.com/how_4486548_use-regular-external-hard-drive.html
One problem you may face is that FAT32 has a 4GB file limit, so you won't be able to store any files larger than that. No way to work around that, as far as I know. 

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