External hard drive formatting question

Discus and support External hard drive formatting question in XBoX on Consoles to solve the problem; If I were to purchase a 2TB external drive, would I be able to partition it and format half of it for my xbox one and the other half for my xbox 360? I... Discussion in 'XBoX on Consoles' started by cthom14, May 29, 2015.

  1. cthom14
    cthom14 Guest

    External hard drive formatting question


    If I were to purchase a 2TB external drive, would I be able to partition it and format half of it for my xbox one and the other half for my xbox 360? I ask because it's a lot cheaper to buy one 2 tb drive rather than two 1tb drives.

    :)
     
    cthom14, May 29, 2015
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  2. Rhys Spagnolo
    Rhys Spagnolo Guest
    External Hard Drives: De-Formatting From Xbox One

    I am going to tell you how to remove the formatting on a External Hard Drive from a Xbox One.

    Requirements:

    Xbox 360

    1. Insert external hard drive into Xbox 360

    2. Go into System

    3. Go into Storage

    4. Press 'Y' on External Hard Drive (Will be called "unformatted device")

    5. Click on Format

    6. The External Hard Drive will now contain the Xbox 360's formatting.

    7. If you do not want the Xbox 360's formatting on the External Hard Drive, all you need to do is format the External Hard Drive on a computer. Otherwise, if you don't care that the Xbox 360's formatting is on the External Hard Drive, then ignore this step.

    Hope This Helped Anyone Who Did Not Know How To Remove An Xbox One's Formatting From An External Hard Drive!
     
    Rhys Spagnolo, May 29, 2015
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  3. DynamiteKick01
    DynamiteKick01 Guest
    External Hard Drive Formatting?

    All over the internet people are saying that you can format an external hard drive to hfs+ to watch videos that are over 4 gigs in size on your xbox 360.

    I just want to hear an official answer (or even a highly knowledgable one!) on this matter.

    I have formatted my external to hfs+ multiple times, put movies on it, and yet the xbox 360 doesn't even know it's (the drive) there.

    What am i doing wrong?
     
    DynamiteKick01, May 29, 2015
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  4. Hordie
    Hordie Guest

    External hard drive formatting question

    Hordie, May 29, 2015
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  5. cthom14
    cthom14 Guest
    Well, that's disappointing to hear, but thank you for your help.
     
    cthom14, May 29, 2015
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  6. UniioN Chrome
    UniioN Chrome Guest
    I don't really know, but just make sure you don't do what i did with all my games on the drive, then format it to bring to a friends house, then have all your games be deleted...
     
    UniioN Chrome, Oct 31, 2018
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  7. UniioN Chrome Win User

    External hard drive formatting question

    I don't really know, but just make sure you don't do what i did with all my games on the drive, then format it to bring to a friends house, then have all your games be deleted...
  8. NM2525 Win User

    Formatting External hard drive questions.

    Shouldn't have a progress bar, and a little but. When it's done the lights will not be flashing on the drive. Which one did you get?
    Thanks. I got the Avolution HDDgear 4 TB. My concern was that the red light on front didn't appear to blink. It appears to me that Avolution uses a blue led (slightly visible NE edge of red led) to shift color to purple when active. That wasn't apparent
    when looking down on it.

    The drive also didn't show up in transfer screen until l restarted the Xbox.
  9. Hordie Win User

    External hard drive formatting question

  10. HyperVenom523 Win User

    Formatting External hard drive questions.

    Well...

    1. Yes

    2. Not much

    If you dont see anything shutdown the console and retry the process 🤔
  11. NM2525 Win User

    Formatting External hard drive questions.

    Thanks for the information. I had read the installation/setup guide before I started. Since there was no progress bar and the drive light didn't seem to be flickering, I was looking for an estimated completion time which I didn't see in the guide. Something
    like:

    @5400 rpm 1 TB 20 minutes.
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