External hard drive reformat

I just purchased a new Xbox one S and in doing so put all the data from my old Xbox one onto an external hard drive that has been working fine for years with my old Xbox. I have moved house so have no internet connection. My new Xbox one S wouldn't recognise
the things on my external hard drive. But did recognise that it was plugged in. On messing with the settings I accidentally formatted the HDD and now everything appears to be lost. Every save I ever made since getting the Xbox one on release all those years
ago. Is there a way of recovering my info? If not, will my saves be stored in the cloud? I'm gutted. I double checked again with my old Xbox and hard drive if the data was there and it wasn't.

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Requires a hard drive.

You have to have an external hard drive plug in. It does not have to be 360 just reformat it. External hard drives that plug in the USB are not recognized as a hard drive for the 360.

 

My Xbox One will not format my external

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!

 

Hey there soup on da roof.

Your saves should be available in the cloud so long as you were connected to Xbox Live prior to moving to your new Xbox One. Unfortunately if you reformed your HDD, there isn't a way to recover what was deleted.