External Hard Drive not recognised at all

Hi,

i have an external hard drive with movies on that I always used to use on my XB1 via the media player with no problems, since the latest update it won't recognise the drive at all.

Any ideas?

:)

 

External Hard drive not recognised

You say "it wouldn't finish formatting". Is that because you cancelled the formatting, or because the computer encountered a problem with the drive and stopped formatting it?

Maybe the drive is starting to get corrupted sectors, and with a corrupted filesystem, the console might be unable to recognize the drive properly.

Try to format the drive on your PC completely again.

And it's normal for the PC to ask you to format it, as the console uses it's own proprietary file system that your PC can't "understand".

 

External Hard drive not recognised

Hi,

I believe the drive stops functioning on the console because the MBR (Master Boot Record) or what is also known as the Primary Partition Table becomes corrupt in some fashion. This does not mean the entire hard drive is damaged,
or indeed, that it is on the way out.

Even a failing drive would still be detected on the console, unless the partition sector - which is located at sector 1 - was damaged.

A failing drive will typically manifest itself on the console as hard drive read errors. The console will normally display error messages when this occurs, sometimes however it will simply crash and drop back to the dashboard.

A well known sign of a failing drive is a very audible 'clicking' sound - the hard drive 'click of death'. The clicking is caused by the hard disk read-write actuator resetting to its home position after failing to read a hard disk sector. This clicking
obviously does not occur on SSD drives, since they contain no moving parts.

My external hard drive failed to be detected a couple of years ago, so I had to reformat it. It seems to be okay now though.

 

I feel your pain... It's where all my games are. There has to be others in the same boat.

Worked perfectly fine for me yesterday!

Wish someone would say they had a fix or were working on one!

 

Sorry to hear it. Please try power cycling the console by holding the power button on it for 10 seconds until it shuts down then unplug all cables from the console and let it sit for 5 minutes to see if that will help.

 

Yeah have done that a few times and tried all the different HDMI sockets too

No joy!