Can You Transfer External Hard Drives Between Xbox One Systems Without Losing Data?

I'm about to get a new Xbox One. Why? Because the disc drive/bluray drive in my 1 TB Call of Duty system sucks. Blurays and dvds freeze every 10-20 minutes during playback(sometimes even more often) and even when putting in brand new disc they sometimes
won't play and I get the error message to check my disc to make sure it isn't dirty. And then there's also the issue that the disc sometimes won't come out when I push eject. I know I can solve the last one with a paperclip inserted in the side or by rebooting
the system but it's still annoying that I have to do this with a system that is roughly only 14 months old.

Currently I have an 8 TB external hard drive for my extra data. I know that I can use this on any Xbox One but my question is: do I have to reformat it for each Xbox One I use it on? Because I need to have something to save all my game saves on when transferring
to a new Xbox One(one that hopefully works correct without all the disc drive/bluray drive errors). But if the new Xbox One is going to force me to reformat it then I would lose everything again. Does anyone know if you have to reformat your external hard
drive on a second Xbox One? And if so would there be any other work around for this?

:)

 

Can You Transfer An External Hard Drive Between Two Xbox One Systems Without Reformatting?

Thank you Genesis1953 and Maxen13 for fully answering my question.

@CORBENDEN--Weirdly enough when the New Xbox Experience first launched it fixed my bluray playback issues. But a few weeks later not only did they return but now even dvd's will freeze up. That didn't happen until the NXE. I will wait for the next update
but if that doesn't work I'm just going to trade it in and get a new Xbox One.

 

Can You Transfer An External Hard Drive Between Two Xbox One Systems Without Reformatting?

Just curious, did your issues start after the New Xbox Experience update(what a joke, should have called the "Make Your System Buggy Update")? I have had video "stutter" issues since the update, and supposedly they will be fixed in Feb with the next big
update, including Blu Ray issues.

 

You can plug your external drive into any Xbox One sign into ,your profile and be fine. No reformat ever needed.

 

I bounce my external from console to console with no problems.

Peace, J.R.

 

Done the same. Nice quick way of taking games around to a mates house.

 

The answer is yes.

A more pressing question is "Why isn't "Catherine" on the Backwards Compatible List"?

(Nice Gamerpic OP)