my seagate 5TB hard drive wont appear on my xbox

ExpendableSTEVE · May 5, 2018

hey wondering if anyone could help me out i have a 5TB seagate back up plus hard drive ive been using for about 3 years now and today i turned my xbox on and it wont come up and it had alot of my games on it i have tried all the xbox trouble shooting tips
but it didnt work.

:)

FR33L04D3R · May 5, 2018

External memory

Can someone confirm if the Seagate 5TB 3.0 USB (STEB5000200) hard drive works with the One?

BALDWlNG · May 5, 2018

External Hard Drive Not Recognized

I just bought a Seagate Backup Plus 5TB external hard drive for my Xbox One. I'm repeatedly getting the error message when i connect the hard drive to my xbox one that the hard drive must be USB 3.0 and 256GB or higher to be recognized.

Details about the external hard drive:

- 5TBs in storage

- USB 3.0, backwards compatible to 2.0

- Here's the product itself: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/seagate...69&st=categoryid$pcmcat186100050005&cp=1&lp=2

What I've tried:

- attached to all USB ports on Xbox one, same error message

- held power button down for 10 seconds to fully shut off xbox one console, same error message

- connected hard drive to Windows 8.1 laptop to make sure it could be read, connected to computer fine

Any ideas what could be causing the issue or what I'm missing?

TheRealLeek03 · May 5, 2018

Hello Have You Tried Plugging In to pc, might me a new volume

TheRealLeek03

Hello Have You Tried Plugging In to pc, might me a new volume

KindGryphon

I want to use a Seagate Storage Expansion Card and WD_BLACK 5TB P10 Game Drive for Xbox on the Xbox series X. Can this be done?

Pilar

Just keep in mind you wont be able to play xbox series s/x gamed off the WD_BLACK 5TB P10. Youd only be able to store them.

NxtDoc1851

I have been running all of my Xbox One games from my 5TB Seagate Back Up Plus. I have had it since the update released supporting external hard drive support. Works like a charm. I have never had any issues with it at all.

Full BASS Drop

I bought the 5tb seagate stand alone external Hard Drive. It's the largest stand alone that I could find. It is 7200rpm and u still have 4.5tb left after it's finished formatting

DavidHill_68

I have this same problem but with an xbox one. Right after the update the external hard drive wasn't being detected. Tried with a brand new drive with the same result.

Same here, a recent xbox os update broke compatibility with some external hard drives.

My seagate 5tb media drive stopped being detected by my xbox one s.

Drive checks out fine on a pc with no issues, however, xbox cannot detect the same drive.

I purchased a new 5tb WD external drive and after formatting on a pc it was not detected by xbox os also.

After 2 months of research I eventually fixed the extetnal drive not detected problem.

I used the Western Digital quick format tool to format the external drive and it finally solved the problem.

My 5tb media drive is now detected every time and the initial problem seems to be due to an xbox os update and certain partition types on extetnal hard drives.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...-2-tb-in/d26d09fd-d2a1-45f2-8353-99215964ffff

my seagate 5TB hard drive wont appear on my xbox