External Hard Drive Not Recognised on Xbox One

Last year, I bought an external hard drive for my Xbox One, as I was running out of space on the internal hard drive. It worked perfectly fine up until around 2 weeks ago. When I plug it into one of the USB ports at the back of the console, the external
hard drive's blue light comes on, so there must be some sort of connection. However, according to the Xbox Dashboard, there is no recognised connection. I've tried looking on the Troubleshooting page and tried the suggested solutions but nothing has worked.
I don't know what else to do, so any advice would be greally appreciated.

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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 have the same problem although mine just stopped working now

 

knowledge.seagate.com/.../006199en

www.xbonehelp.com/.../xbox-one-not-detect-external-usb-hard-drive-storage.html

sometimes it has to be to plugged in the side usb to register as a media for some dumb reason than once you deal with that it should allow to do waht you need theres also 2 links to try good luck