Fixing a SSD/External Drive that is showing the 0x80bd003c Error when selected as capture...

Hi Everyone - Just in case anyone is running into the same error - I recently had trouble with this error where I was trying to use a Samsung T7 SSD for media captures on my Xbox Series S. Basically I had previously used this drive as Win boot drive on my Mac. Despite reformatting it on the Mac and then formatting it again on the PC to NTFS it would still throw the 0x80bd003c error when selecting it as the capture point on the Xbox. The way I solved it was based on the suggestion by DaniloCastro at the very end of this thread about the same error:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...e/c0beeb13-d700-4b4b-a2b9-dea12323a0ff?page=2

I googled up this video by MikesUnboxing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eW1tVhhBYI on "Remove Or Delete EFi Or erase Problem System Partitions On USB PCIE SSD Or HDD". Followed the instructions to clean the disk. One step missing was simply re-initializing the disk before creating a new simple volume and whola - selecting the drive as capture point no longer threw the error and successfully capturing media on the drive. Sweet.

For reference:

Open command prompt as adminstrator

Start "Diskpart"

"List Disk" - check which is your disk (be careful! - wrong disk and you will delete data!!!!! be Warned!!!!!)

"Select [Your disk] i.e. Disk 1"

"Clean"

then open Disk Management - intialize the disk - right click and select "New Simple Volume" and you are away.

Full Credit to DaniloCastro for the Heads up and MikesUnboxing for the Solution.

:)