External hard drive keeps crashing my Xbox

Discus and support External hard drive keeps crashing my Xbox in XBoX on Consoles to solve the problem; Ok i have this external hard drive from sea gate i bought about 2ish years ago, latley it has completley made it impossible to even use the xbox. it... Discussion in 'XBoX on Consoles' started by HOODINI117, Oct 30, 2020.

  1. HOODINI117
    HOODINI117 Guest

    External hard drive keeps crashing my Xbox


    Ok i have this external hard drive from sea gate i bought about 2ish years ago, latley it has completley made it impossible to even use the xbox.

    it just freezes the xbox,if i press the power button it just makes the noise but dosent turn off.

    no controler inputs work even if i hold the home button, and if i just wait it just turns off the external hard drive.

    if any one knows a way to fix this without buying a new one please let me know.

    :)
     
    HOODINI117, Oct 30, 2020
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  2. StimulatedNinja Win User

    My external hard drive keeps crashing

    Sounds like it might be a drive error. Ensure the drive is completely compatible with the console you are using. Sounds to me like the drive may not be able to keep up with the Xbox and is effectively resetting itself.
  3. Justin Jam Win User

    Game keeps crashing AC Valhalla

    I already did that but I thought it was my external hard drive so I copied the game onto my internal hard drive and it’s still on my external hard drive would that be a problem also? Like as soon as I bought it from the play store on the Xbox store may be a day later it was crashing out on me
  4. VAC9 Win User

    Why are my games freezing and crashing

    What nestor said is this happening during playing games and also are the games on an external hard drive if this happens on an external hard drive and only the games crash it could be a dieing external
  5. paulwoodland Win User

    Fallout 4 Keeps Crashing

    I bought an Xbox One S a fallout four seems to crash in the Boston areas but it plays fine in the other areas that you playing until the FreezeFrame is constantly keep crashing I’ve put it down to 780p and put it on an external hard drive and still constantly crashing Microsoft can fix this soon
  6. XA JJKILLERs Win User

    Storage Alternatives for XBOX versus internal drive

    I've seen a lot of discussions and questions about losing games and data when a XBOX unfortunately crashes and may need replacement. Saved game data is usually lost. An alternative is an external hard drive for your XBOX. I personally use 2 external
    hard drives for all of my storage needs versus using the internal hard drive. My first external drive I started with was a Seagate 4TB External Hard drive. It plugs directly into a USB port on the back of my XBOX One X and then I added a Seagate 8TB External
    Hard drive. Then I simply went into Settings, then storage then set the 8TB as my default drive with the 4TB as a secondary. This has multiple benefits as you not only have your games and data separate in case of XBOX failure but you can also take the drive
    with you to other locations and play the games on another XBOX. :)
    This is what i tell any1 that asks
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