Losing Data from an External HDD when plugging into XBOX ONE!

TomWWils · Oct 12, 2015

Hello, last night I plugged my external HDD into my XBOX One, thinking that the films that were on it I could access via my Xbox.

After formatting my external HDD I found I wasn't able to view these films

Plugging back into my PC I see nothing now appears on my HDD.

Doing some research last night I found out you need to run some recovery software to be able to get everything back. Software which I don't have. It's important to me as everything from the last 5 years is on there. (Documents, Photos, Films, etc.) somewhere
around 1.5TB worth of data.

Are you able to help?

:)

Psyact · Oct 12, 2015

External Storage

These might help you identify the problem:

1. Power the Xbox One down completely and plug the external drive into a different USB port on the Xbox One. Power the Xbox back on and see if the problem persists. If it does, it's that particular USB port that's the issue.

2. If the external HDD has a power cord, try plugging it into a different outlet. If it's plugged into a surge protector, try plugging it directly into a wall (temporarily, just to see if the power is the issue).

3. Last option -- move your data on the external HDD to your internal HDD, and reformat it. I doubt this is the problem, but occasionally I've seen this work.

Avery.Cameron · Oct 12, 2015

external hard drive capabilities

My question is with an external hdd can I download and save my game data to it AND put the movies I downloaded from my laptop on the external as well and play them from my Xbox one?

I bought a 2tb recently, formatted it to and put some of my movies on it. Once I plugged it into the Xbox it had to be formatted for the games otherwise I could watch the movies. Now once I format it in my Xbox the movies are erased obviously. Any work around for this?

JINX MANIA · Oct 27, 2015

You should have read what it said before you format it. If you didn't format it then you just need to go into an App that is called Media Player or something like that. But it tells you you'll loes everthing when you do the format. So you lost everything

NeoOnis · Oct 29, 2015

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NeoOnis · Oct 31, 2018

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NeoOnis

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JINX MANIA

You should have read what it said before you format it. If you didn't format it then you just need to go into an App that is called Media Player or something like that. But it tells you you'll loes everthing when you do the format. So you lost everything

Psyact

These might help you identify the problem:

1. Power the Xbox One down completely and plug the external drive into a different USB port on the Xbox One. Power the Xbox back on and see if the problem persists. If it does, it's that particular USB port that's the issue.

2. If the external HDD has a power cord, try plugging it into a different outlet. If it's plugged into a surge protector, try plugging it directly into a wall (temporarily, just to see if the power is the issue).

3. Last option -- move your data on the external HDD to your internal HDD, and reformat it. I doubt this is the problem, but occasionally I've seen this work.

Bazajaytee

You can use any size external HDD with your Xbox 360 but it will format the HDD and only use 32Gb of the total space of the HDD. When you plug in the HDD you will have two options under the "System Settings" menu under "My Xbox." From there, you need to
select the appropriate configuration option for your drive. One option erases all data on the drive before formatting it. The other option configures only a limited amount of space for Xbox 360 use, leaving any data on the drive untouched.

Losing Data from an External HDD when plugging into XBOX ONE!