Questions regarding the External HD in One!

I bought a Seagate 2TB for use
on Xbox One, but I wanted to
first have formatted by Windows and then the
One, to make sure that really
all HD files were deleted.
However, I formatted in Xbox One and
Windows does not recognize the HD more.
How do I make Windows recognize it?

:)

 

external HD

I have one question.. does an american external HD works perfectly in a european console?

Thanks!

 

External Hardrive

I need to ask a question about using an External Hard drives for Xbox One it says more than 256 GB or higher but what you see in the stores like Game Stop others are 2 GB HD but if you need a 256 GB or higher how can a 2 GB HD work then ?

Second question: during updates do those go to your system HD or to the Default External HD ?

 

Hi there.

Xbox One uses a different file system than Windows, so when you format the drive for use on the Xbox One, it will no longer show up on a Windows machine, at least not in the usual way.

To make your hard drive be recognised by Windows, you need to use Windows Disk Management. If you're using Windows 7 or Windows Vista, you can access the Disk manager either via the search function in the Start Menu or from the control panel.
If you're using Windows 8.1 the quickest way you can get to it is by searching for
Administrative Tools or go straight to it by right clicking on the Windows Start Button and selecting Disk Management from there. Or, you can get to via the control panel.

With your external hard drive connected up, Disk Manager should now detect your external hard drive. A Window will pop up asking you to initialise the device.
I'm pretty certain that this procedure will remove the Xbox formatting so proceed with caution.

Note that you can not completely delete files from your hard drive simply by quick formatting the hard drive. The files will still be there, just marked as 'free space'. There are only two ways of deleting a file completely from a mechanical hard drive; either
via filling the hard drive completely with new content or using software on a computer to write random data to all the sectors of the hard disk.

 

Thank you very much, Obsessive Power !!!

Can tell me when the External Hard Drive is formatted for the Xbox One, it deletes all HD files or those standard files that comes in HD is not deleted?

 

Standard files = Factory files (Seagate's Software)!