I bought a hard drive for my Xbox one S , my console won’t detect the hard drive but when I...

I’ve used the hard drives for my Xbox one but when I bought the hard drive, it said it was compatible for the series s.

The game I bought in the Microsoft store on the Xbox one. I was trying to play it on my series s.

I went to GameStop today and I bought a 320GB hard drive there. I put the hard drive into my nephew's Xbox 360 Slim E Console... and when going thru the System Settings... the hard drive was listed.

So the 250GB hard drive that I bought thru a place on Amazon.com... is on its way back to them.

I did find one thing that I found to be... amusing... online when I looked up info on "Troubleshooting" if the console doesn't detect the hard drive. They told you to do these things...

1. Turn your console off and then on again.

2. Make sure that your hard drive is installed correctly by removing and adding your hard drive back again.

3. If you have another hard drive, try it with your console.

4. Format your hard drive.

The "amusing" thing is Number 4... how do you get the Xbox 360 to format a hard drive that it doesn't detect??? Doesn't the Xbox have to first detect the hard drive... before it can format it???

This was found here...

support.xbox.com/.../hard-drive

MIke

Hello!

My name is Dérek, I'm an independent platform consultant and I'm grateful for the opportunity to help you.

Respect, what we can do in this situation would be to check if it is a HD or console error.

On HD, format it again to NTFS

Step 1: In Windows 10, open the "This Computer" tab ("My Computer") and right click on one of the icons of the external hard drive you want to format. Step 2: With the options menu open, select the "Format" option

Then, on the console, perform a reset and see if it identifies the HD. If not, try connecting another storage device such as a USB stick to test

Press the Xbox button to open the dashboard.

Select System > Settings > System > Console Information

Select Reset Console.

Restore and keep my games and apps.

Rest assured, you won't miss games or saves

When asking to pull settings from an old xbox, put no

You will have to log in your accounts again, that's all

I remain at your disposal if you have any further questions.

I bought a Third Party Transfer Device to Copy all my Information from the 20GB Original Hard Drive to my XBOX 360 S console Hard Drive.

Hi

When I added an external hard drive to my console the drive format was pretty quick.

If you have run through all of the steps listed below reference the external hard drive nor being detected and it is still not being detected then I would try to obtain a replacement external hard drive and hopefully this one should work correctly.

https://support.xbox.com/games/troubleshooting/console-doesnt-detect-external-storage