Slow to read hard drive

David McKenna · Dec 4, 2019

Hey guys, as of today my new 4tb external hard drive or Xbox One X is misbehaving. The Xbox now takes about 2 minutes to show what games i have installed. The games are running perfectly fine once selected. Any ideas what i can do to speed things up?

Many Thanks

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{Parity}

Try performing a hard reset EXACTLY like this. Hold the power button on the console for 8 seconds or until the power shuts down completely.
Unplug the power cord from the back of the console for 5 minutes.
Plug the power cord back in and restart the console.

David McKenna

Thankyou, i will give it a try

NonSportsGirl

Disc games are slow to install too because blu-ray reads slow.

A 4x blu-ray drive transfers data at a faster rate than a 12x dvd drive. So it is doubtful slow install times are at the drive end.

From what I've read when you install a game the One tries to get any game updates at the same time, meaning you've got two things trying to access the hard drive.

Disk installs apparently go a lot faster if you disconnect from the internet.

Zuumah

I have the same Limited edition xbox 360, and I have the same problem! Fresh out of the box it was this way, I thought it was meant to be this way, until my friends laughed at how rediculoisly slow xbox was. I then did some research and was told to use a
flash drive instead of a hard drive. I did some reading about why my hard drive is making my xbox slow, and stumbled across this, and sure enough, someone was having the same problem with the exact same xbox/hard drive bundle :/

HassanB

Hello,

What happens if you remove your hard drive and use a USB Flash Drive to download your profile onto there and run it from there. Does the dashboard, guide and all other stuff load perfectly fine or is it still slow?

That's the true way to know if there's something wrong with your hard drive that's causing this issue or if it's the console. If it's the hard drive you could try to format it but it's likely it's an actual issue with the hard drive being able to read (slow
loading, opening/closing applications and the guide) / write data (randomly losing your profile). Something like this usually points to a hard drive with bad sectors (failing hard drive).

You should be able to move all of your save files to the cloud and copy the files to the USB Flash Drive your using in the interim. If it is the hard drive that's the problem, you can attempt to format it and see if the problem fixes. If not, even after formatting
the issue sticks then it's likely an issue with the hard drive (if the USB Flash Drive was perfectly fine in terms of the slow dashboard, guide, and apps opening/closing).

Hope that makes sense to you, if not, I'll try and explain.

Slow to read hard drive