External Hard Drive not working in pc after formatting it on my xbox one

Cheetahsaurus · Dec 5, 2014

I was using my external hard drive as extra storage for my xbox. Since I have used it on my xbox my computer wont read it. Any idea how I can fix this? I would like to use it for movies. Thank you

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Rhys Spagnolo · Dec 5, 2014

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!

KronJ0b · Dec 5, 2014

seagate 4TB not recognized

Hello,

I have this external drive:

http://www.seagate.com/ca/en/extern...-drives/expansion-hard-drive/?sku=STBV4000100

It works on my PC no problem, but the xbox one does not know it exists. Plugging it in does nothing. I have tried:

* all the steps in the official troubleshooting guide

* All USB ports on the xbox, hard reboots. ( it is fully updated also )

* formatting the drive clean

* removing the existing NTFS partition completely.

this is the drive:

http://www.seagate.com/ca/en/extern...-drives/expansion-hard-drive/?sku=STBV4000100

Does anyone have any ideas?

FrancisHayle · Dec 5, 2014

To make your hard drive work again with your computer/or windows you need to plug it into your Xbox 360, and re-format it. Your hard drive will then be formatted to Fat-32, but you can plug it into Windows/your computer, and re-format back to
NTFS, (Which is, the recommended one). Since the Xbox one runs of the Windows 8 Platform you cannot use your hard drive on Windows. The Xbox One does not format the external hard drive correctly. I have learned this my self.
Doing the following steps can let you use the hard drive with Windows again.

Internet Expert

If you have a Windows PC, connect the external hard drive to it and give it a reformat. Sometimes, people need to give a hard drive an extra reformat on the computer because it's currently in a format that the Xbox cannot change (for some reason).

- Connect the external HDD to the PC.

- Go to "My Computer" (Win+E)

- Right click the external hard drive, and select "Format..."

- Ensure it formats to "NTFS", leave all other settings the way they are.

- After it finishes, attempt to format the drive on the Xbox again.

NOTE: If your external hard drive came pre-formatted with more than one partition, you will need to reformat the entire drive so it has one and only one NTFS partition. You can manage disk partitions via "Disk Management" in Windows.

Hope this helps!

Obsessive Power

Hi,

Not sure what you wanted to do here, could you elaborate?

As for external hard drives, you can't partition them for use as both external storage for games and for use with your Mac or PC. You can use an external hard drive on the Xbox One as a media drive, though.

If you format an external hard drive for Xbox One games storage, the whole drive is formatted and the file system is changed.

Scary Ghosty

You most certainly can wipe it. After it's wiped you put it in a PC, format it as a standard external hard drive, then put it in the xbox and format it as an xbox storage device.

StuartATrueRed

Have you formatted the hard drive? If not, have a look here for instructions on how to do this on the console.

https://www.trueachievements.com/n40186/how-to-format-external-hard-drive-xbox-one Also make sure your hard drive is a usb 3.0 hard drive, otherwise the drive will not work on the console.

XBF Jasmine Z

Hi Titan,

Thank you for the updates regarding this situation!

I would say, trying connecting the external hard drive to a Laptop/PC. If it appears then

format the drive. If it doesn't appear then there is an issue with the drive.

Once the drive is formatted, plug it back into the console (it may format again to the correct format - NTFS). Then transfer one of the games onto the external drive and see if it works.

I hope this helps!

External Hard Drive not working in pc after formatting it on my xbox one