Repeated message appearing 'External Hard Drive Ready To Use' Despite trying the ...

I have a 2TB 2.5 HDD and have connected it using a caddy into the usb 3.0 side port. However although the drive can be seen and formatted (including formatting it to be used for apps and games) occasionally it will repeatedly report the message using the
xbox one guide notification 'External Hard Drive Ready To Use' at which time the caddy's activity light will flash. I've not installed anything as I suspect if I had a game running from the drive it would disrupt reading from the drive if this happens.

I've tried the all suggested fixes as mentioned in this post:

http://forums.xbox.com/xbox_support/xbox_one_support/f/4269/t/1768291.aspx

So my question is, is there any other suggestion on how to resolve the this issue, also is it something that could be fixed in an update coming for the Xbox one?

Regards, Matthew.

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External hard drive ready message

Hi Mikele,

sorry to hear you are having problems with your HDD, there are a couple of things you can check.

First I suggest you all try toggling the Settings > Power > ”When Xbox is off, turn off storage” option – some drives will perform better with this option deselected.

If you have no joy with that then there are some other troubleshooting steps
here and see if any of those help.

I have heard of people having problems with enclosures - make sure its operating as USB 3 and has enough power. If neither xbox nor pc can see the HDD you should still be able to re-format and try again by connecting to your pc and using Disk Management
in windows.

If all else fails I suggest trying a purpose built external USB 3 drive - either borrow or buy one! I personally use a 2TB WD My Passport Ultra but there are plenty of options.

Hope that helps!

 

External hard drive ready message

The internal hard disk of my xbox one is full and i've tried an external hard drive. It gets formatted by the xbox one but after some time i get the message "external hard drive ready" as if it lose connection with xbox for a moment. I can install games
on the hard drive but i can't play them because whrn i get the message it kicks me out. I've tried two disks but with the same enclosure and they've the same problem. I couldn't even format the other disk again to use it in a computer so I'm a bit afraid to
buy a new hard disk if i'm not sure it will work. Does someone know how to fix this problem or at least a list of hard drive that are 100% working?