External Hard Drives Keep Failing on My Xbox One

erikfor3 · May 16, 2020

Hello, I currently own the first generation Xbox one. I recently bought a
2TB Seagate Game Drive to store all my games on. I had about half of it filled up, but
after about a week or so, it failed on me. I did a test on my Pc so I know it wasn't my console not detecting it. I did see some reviews saying it was tending to have a high fail rate.

So I sent it back to Amazon and decided to get the Seagate STGX1000400 Portable 2TB External Hard Drive. About a couple of days after use, my xbox no longer detects it, but with this one,
my pc detects it just fine after a format, I'm just not sure what it is about my xbox and external hard drives?
Any comments or advice would be appreciated

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CyTeK1978

hey there, sorry for that question but you did the advices from the xbox help page?

aMexicanErb

Have you tried plugging in the Hard drive into different USB ports? Also did when you first plugged in the hard drive did it format for xbox?

erikfor3

Yes, I formatted my hard drive and had it working for a couple days, also tried all the trouble shooting steps on the xbox website

erikfor3

yes, sorry probably should have mentioned that

Obsessive Power

Hi,

Simple answer, your hard drive is failing. Fix? Buy a new hard drive or use an external hard drive. The Xbox 360 supports external hard drives up to 2 TB.

Hard drives die and before they do, they generally exhibit, disk read errors, corrupted files none working games. Hard disk drives are mechanical with moving parts, its it not if they fail its a matter of when.

External Hard Drives Keep Failing on My Xbox One