External HDD recognised as media device only?

Hey there RoastPotato3 lets try troubleshooting it and make sure the requirements are in fact correct.

• It uses a USB 3.0 connection. If you’re using a USB hub, the hub must also be USB 3.0 or later.
  
• It has 256 GB or larger storage capacity.
• It has a partition. Typically, drives come with a preformatted partition. For more information about partitioning an external hard drive, refer to the manufacturer’s instructions.
  

Please also note the Xbox one uses NTFS not FAT32 and the console cannot read the contents when the drive(s) is/are formatted to FAT32.

I'm having a similar issue, except the 2 HDD's that I use to watch movies through the media app have been recognised and have worked fine for over a year. All of a sudden neither are recognised by the app. The HDD's work fine through TV's PC's etc. just
not on my Xbone.

When I insert one of the drives, I get a notification that an external device is ready hold home button to launch. But when I enter the media app nothing is listed.

Nothing has changed on my HDD and I've had no updates for the Xbone. That I know of anyway.

Any help would be appreciated

If your external HDD is partitioned for use as X1 storage, I'm fairly certain Media Player won't recognise it as a media storage device, and so won't be checking it for audio/video/image files. It'll basically be an extension of X1 storage.

The Media Player isn't all that great. I don't think it's even complete software. It does have 'preview' in the title still. lol I can only get the X1/Media Player to detect my tablet, phone, and laptop by using Universal Media Server, a free piece of software
that let's you organise what files can and can't be shared/streamed across devices.

If you Google you should find a free download. But that would mean you'd have to plug your external HDD into something other than your One, and have UMS set up to find it and make streaming content to the X1's Media Player a thing. =|

It doesn't recognise the External HDDs full capacity though, does it, c0deater..?? The Xbox 360, will only recognise "One" 16GB partition on any external HDD..

It is only 16GB, as the UEFI System Kernel, is not designed, for a USB Drive to handle any more than 16GB without the dashboard crashing..

Thanks for that SoAnnoying. There is a reddit post on the Xbox One page from a dev asking about external hard drives and stuff. I wrote a wall of text and tagged him in it in hopes that maybe he can do something or pass the info along to someone who can.
This past two months have been hard though, we've had to limit are spending because we don't have the hard drive space to download any new games. I don't see why this isn't a issue for xbox, even if it is a small group (which it doesn't seem to be anymore),
they just want to ignore us.