For A Couple Years I Used My Wd Black P10 game drive external hard drive and it worked fine...

Hi Nickolas,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Xbox Community. I'm sorry to hear that you're having issues with your external drive. To isolate your issue, can you please confirm if your card is being detected? Open the guide, select Profile & system > Settings > System > Storage.

If it's not showing, please remove the storage and perform a power cycle to restart your power supply and clear the cache of your console. kindly follow the steps below.

1. Turn off your console by holding the Xbox button on the front of the console for approximately 10 seconds. The console will turn off.

2. Unplug the console's power cable. Wait 50 seconds.

Important: Make sure that you wait at least 50 seconds. This step resets the power supply.

3. Turn your console back on by pressing the Xbox button on the console or the Xbox button on your controller.

If you don't see the green boot-up animation when the console restarts, repeat these steps. Make sure that you hold the power button until the console completely shuts down.

Important If your console is in Sleep mode, the above steps will shut the console off completely. Sleep mode, or the ability to turn on your console by saying "Xbox on," won't be enabled until you restart the console.

Once booted up, reinsert your storage device and try again.

If your Xbox still can’t recognize the Storage drive, try to use it on a different device just to confirm if the problem is with your hard drive itself.

If it's not working regardless of the device, please contact Western Digital support for further troubleshooting, possible repair, warranty or replacement:

https://www.westerndigital.com/en-ap/support/in...

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Regards,

Alvaro

Hi Jiza1981, you can generally buy cheap cables over eBay.

Kotaku did a great post some time ago regarding drives that will work seamlessly with the Xbox One. I've yet to get a hard drive for my Xbox One but I'm almost out of room (Microsoft just love giving me games! ) so it's time to get one I think!

Anyway, without linking anyone to anything external to this website, Kotaku recommended the following external hard drives;

1TB HGST Touro S 7200rpm Portable External Hard Drive

WD My Passport 1TB Portable External Hard Drive Storage USB 3.0 Black

WD My Book 4 TB USB 3.0 Hard Drive with Backup

I've never used that Touro brand so I can't comment on them but I've had good experiences with Western Digital and their external hard drive range. Nice and sturdy units!

Hope that helps

That's unfortunate. I've heard a lot of bad things about the external hard drive's from Seagate fizzling out. I have two WD external hard drive's and they've both worked great since I got them over 4 years ago.

Ok. so is this one ok to use?www.currys.co.uk/.../wd-elements-portable-hard-drive-2tb-black-21467320-pdt.html
.going to get one now if it is. Again sorry to derail the topic but don't think it was worth starting a new tbread for this.

I bought this
www.pcworld.co.uk/.../wd-my-passport-ultra-portable-hard-drive-2-tb-black-21807038-pdt.html

As long as its USB 3 then your good to go all you'll need to do is format it for the Xbox One. Either one you can keep plugged in and the console will keep it powered on so plug in and forget about it.