Help!!! My seagate external hard drive stopped blinking and all of my storage is gone!

Same problem here. My Seagate external hard drive blinks for about 5 seconds and then just stops then I get the 'we see your external storage, but the connection is too weak to use' error. It does this on two different xbox ones. Ive swapped out ports, unplugged
everything, restarted the console. The hard drive works just fine and the blue light stays on when I plug it into my pc. Any solutions here?? and yes my external hard drive plugs into the wall and has a cord that plugs into the usb port.

External hard drive(Seagate) it keeps blinking when I plug it into my Xbox what should I do

sameee

Hey there .

Sorry to hear you're having download troubles. To check, what type of storage device are you using?

I use a Seagate external 2 gig hard drive to download all of my games on

2 terabyte hard drive* my fault

Hello,

For more specific troubleshooting, please confirm the exact model of your Seagate external drive.

Refer to my answer in this similar thread for all the possible options to resolve this error:

Xbox one external hard drive 3 tb Seagate - Microsoft Community

Hope this helps.

I've seen a lot of discussions and questions about losing games and data when a XBOX unfortunately crashes and may need replacement. Saved game data is usually lost. An alternative is an external hard drive for your XBOX. I personally use 2 external
hard drives for all of my storage needs versus using the internal hard drive. My first external drive I started with was a Seagate 4TB External Hard drive. It plugs directly into a USB port on the back of my XBOX One X and then I added a Seagate 8TB External
Hard drive. Then I simply went into Settings, then storage then set the 8TB as my default drive with the 4TB as a secondary. This has multiple benefits as you not only have your games and data separate in case of XBOX failure but you can also take the drive
with you to other locations and play the games on another XBOX.

This is what i tell any1 that asks