External not recognized all of a sudden

My Xbox is a year old and all of a sudden doesn't recognize my external hard drive.

My external drive was working, all the sudden the next time i tried to power it on it wouldnt recognize it. Tried everything and still will boot up. Is my extermal done for? Please advise. Ots a seagate 2tb. Thanks!

I am having the same fault as of yesterday morning, looks like Xbox cocked up! Not really down for reformatting and reinstalling 400gb of data though!

@Madmunkey2007, sorry you're having those issues. I'm still upset about having to format mine. It isn't so much of having to reinstall the games that upset, it's losing all my game saves and knowing that when I choose to play those games again I have to
start over. Let's just say I've learned to put my game saves on my actual internal HD now.

Hey guys, got an update.

So I took my hard drive in to see if anything was wrong with the HD itself. The HD was fine, but turns out that everything that I had on my hard drive got wiped for an unknown reason. The guy I talked with said it could've happened due to many things like:
something went wrong during an automatic update, accidentally came unplugged while Xbox was on, or something like that. I had no choice but to format the HD and am now reinstalling everything that was on there. This time I'm going to make sure I transfer all
my saves to my internal HD so that I don't lose that. Here's to starting Witcher 3 over -_- *sigh*

@Majorkinx - Thanks for the suggested fix! Unfortunately I was unable to see my HD (Drive Letter) from my PC since it was formatted to my Xbox. I appreciate the suggestion though, and I would've tried it had I been able to. I will definitely keep that in
mind for the future if my HD gives me issues again. Thanks again!