“Formatted” my external hard drive on xbox one, not knowing what it will do. Now it’s...

Hi

I don't know what file format Xbox One uses with external hard drives but when you first connect a drive the console should offer to format the drive for games (If it meets the specs), With my Xbox One I have both a 2TB and 4TB external hard drives connected
and working without any issues for playing games.

Hi,

Not sure what you wanted to do here, could you elaborate?

As for external hard drives, you can't partition them for use as both external storage for games and for use with your Mac or PC. You can use an external hard drive on the Xbox One as a media drive, though.

If you format an external hard drive for Xbox One games storage, the whole drive is formatted and the file system is changed.

Have you formatted the hard drive? If not, have a look here for instructions on how to do this on the console.

https://www.trueachievements.com/n40186/how-to-format-external-hard-drive-xbox-one Also make sure your hard drive is a usb 3.0 hard drive, otherwise the drive will not work on the console.

as per the other comments about the use of the external hard drive for the 360 I am in the update preview program which allows additional External hard drives to be used.I purchased the same Seagate 2tb external hard drive as per my xboxone but when I apply
the format on the xbox360 as per the instructions it replies with unable to format. Would like to know what external hard drives are compatible? I no the hard drive works as tried it on the xboxone after it would not format for the 360

thanks

NZ Racer

i formated the external hard drive with the computer and then with the xbox one and works fine now