reformatting my external hard drive

Discus and support reformatting my external hard drive in XBoX on Consoles to solve the problem; I have a 2tb external hard drive i have been using for game storage on my xbox s/x, but i want to reformat it to a capture location. the xbox its self... Discussion in 'XBoX on Consoles' started by jessebenson, May 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM.

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    reformatting my external hard drive


    I have a 2tb external hard drive i have been using for game storage on my xbox s/x, but i want to reformat it to a capture location. the xbox its self wont do it, and i cant get it to appear as a drive on my pc to format. I have tried using device manager and can find it in the list but it wont let me do anything to it, so i have no idea how to proceed.

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    jessebenson, May 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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  2. Lady ll N lK Win User

    Requires a hard drive.

    You have to have an external hard drive plug in. It does not have to be 360 just reformat it. External hard drives that plug in the USB are not recognized as a hard drive for the 360.
  3. Aditya Parikh 11 Win User

    Msfs closes automaticly on start up even forza horizon 5

    how do i reformat it without deletting my drive and the games were installed on an external hard drive.
  4. Mister Maka Win User

    External hard drive reformat

    Hey there soup on da roof.

    Your saves should be available in the cloud so long as you were connected to Xbox Live prior to moving to your new Xbox One. Unfortunately if you reformed your HDD, there isn't a way to recover what was deleted.
  5. BigPigGaming112 Win User

    Not able to install games on 2TB external hard drive

    Have you used the External hard drive on any other systems? (PC maybe) if so this caused the hard drive to be incompatible with downloading games and you must reformat the external hard drive.
  6. Internet Expert Win User

    My Xbox One will not format my external

    If you have a Windows PC, connect the external hard drive to it and give it a reformat. Sometimes, people need to give a hard drive an extra reformat on the computer because it's currently in a format that the Xbox cannot change (for some reason).

    - Connect the external HDD to the PC.

    - Go to "My Computer" (Win+E)

    - Right click the external hard drive, and select "Format..."

    - Ensure it formats to "NTFS", leave all other settings the way they are.

    - After it finishes, attempt to format the drive on the Xbox again.

    NOTE: If your external hard drive came pre-formatted with more than one partition, you will need to reformat the entire drive so it has one and only one NTFS partition. You can manage disk partitions via "Disk Management" in Windows.

    Hope this helps!
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