My hard drive won’t format

Discus and support My hard drive won’t format in XBoX Games and Apps to solve the problem; I’ve been using this hard rice for a while now and it hasn’t had any problems until recently. One day everything was gone and the storage drive wasn’t... Discussion in 'XBoX Games and Apps' started by JabberWaker, Mar 15, 2023.

  1. JabberWaker
    JabberWaker Guest

    My hard drive won’t format


    I’ve been using this hard rice for a while now and it hasn’t had any problems until recently. One day everything was gone and the storage drive wasn’t showing up. Then I restart the Xbox to see if there’s a problem but it wouldn’t work. Every time I restarted a thing popped up and it asked me if I wanna use it for media or games, I choose games and then it asks other stuff like the name but then when it’s done it doesn’t show up as a useable storage option. Then when I restart my Xbox again it asks me what I want it to format to again. I tried media and it worked and showed up as a useable thing but I don’t use it for media, so I thought maybe If I switch it to games then it would work, but when I do that it just disappears. Someone please help

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    JabberWaker, Mar 15, 2023
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  2. Georges C. Win User

    My hard drive won’t format

    Hello, first it's a pleasure to be able to help you today.

    My name is welcome to the community.

    Hello JabberWaker, I don't know how old your HD is, but it may have a problem or it may be something in the case too,

    Have you tried changing the USB cable and connecting it to a PC to see if it recognizes it normally and running some diagnostic software on the disk?
  3. SwordofWhedon Win User

    Trying to download PC game to external hard drive

    The drive needs to be formatted with NTFS file system

    But a question, how is the hard drive connected? USB 3.0 or USB-C?

    USB 3 looks like normal usb and often has blue inside the connector. C is a small connector

    If it is USB 3.0 it won’t work, the drive connection is too slow to play the game

    To format the hard drive go to Disk management, right click on the drive, choose format, and then select ntfs from the drop-down and hit quick format.

    Please be aware this will erase the existing contents of the drive
  4. XGN VIRTUS VII Win User

    Format my Hard Drive?

    What i might suggest is taking out the harddrive and installing it in another xbox to see if it will register there as unformatted and if it does, try formatting it again on that xbox then transferring it back.
  5. Flips flackbean Win User

    Hard drive not formatting

    I have just bpught a 2tb wd drive and mine wont format either and have just got the new windows 10 dashboard
  6. DJBSE72 Win User

    hard drive not formatting

    do you have more then one external drives connected?

    There is a limitation to 3 Game HDD..

    other ideas I don't have now
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