red circle eternal hard drive xbox one

Um this would have to do with an eternal problem of the xbox itself so your hard drive wouldn't/shouldn't be affected.

Hi Shauna Clemance,

Welcome to Xbox Community Forums. We appreciate for sharing your concern with us and we hope that you are doing well today.

We understand the inconvenience caused. As per description, you are having issues with Xbox external drive. It did not save your games you moved. Let us check on this together and sort this out to assist your concern.

However, before we proceed, we would like to ask few questions about it.

1. What external drive you are using?
   
2. Any error messages? IF yes, do you mind sending a screenshot?
   
3. Have you updated the system driver?
   
4. Does the external drive compatible with your console?
   
5. Does the console detect the external drive?
   

Most common reason why it does not save games due to the following.

• The external hard drive might not meet the system requirements needed for Xbox Console to save games or apps.
  
• Or your external hard drive is not formatted toFAT32, so Xbox console won’t detect it.
  

So far, from the details you provided, you can try the following steps and let us know the result. You can just skip those you have done already.

• first restart your Xbox console, remove and then reconnect your external hard drive, and connect it to another USB port on Xbox to check if it is detecting the external drive or not.
  

You may also check on this article for more information. Troubleshoot external storage detection on Xbox | Xbox Support

Let us know the result and we will get back to you as soon as we can. We may recommend further troubleshooting steps once we have received your answers to the above questions.



We will be glad to follow up and help you.

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also if the hard drive is near full capacity it takes longer to read and write, because the head of the hard drive is farther from center of drive. the center of the hard drive will have the fastest read/write speeds add more stuff the head moves farther
out of circle increasing the size of the circle the head travels around.

Hi there! The one red light indicates that there was a system error. No worries, as you can diagnose and treat it. Here's how:

1. Unplug everything from your Xbox, including the power cord, controllers, flash drive, the whole shebang. Please also disconnect the power box from the AC cord as well. Then, put the power cord back together and power on the console by pressing the power
button on the console, not the controller.

2. If the console still has the red light, it's time to remove the hard drive. All you have to do is to turn off your console, press the latch on your hard drive, lift up and remove it. While the hard drive is off, turn on your console.

3. If there is no red light, reattach the hard drive to the console and restart. If there is no red light when the hard drive is removed, you will need a new hard drive. If there is a red light, then...

4. Disconnect any USB flash drives or any memory units attached to your console. Restart your console. If there is still a red light, you console needs to be repaired.

Hope this helps!

No as chrome doesn't support box format you have to setup the drive again on xbox as a new drive since you formatrd it the first-time

This is why you dont try and bypass the rules