Very frustrating external hard drive issues...

Got the 3.0 USB Adapter today. Formatted with no issues. Thanks again Hydro Skillet. You saved me a lot of stress.

I spent all day transferring the data from another Seagate drive to this drive figuring that there was no way two drives would be rejected... Wrong, no format option for the other drive either. The OS on this console is such a piece of ***. What gives Microsoft?
The original XBOX was a huge step forward with a fully functional dashboard, custom soundtracks, and eventually XBOX Live... 360 came and took another huge leap by offering streaming, XBOX Live arcade, avatars, chatpads, and an even better dashboard... XBOX
One comes out with a cluttered mess of a dashboard, NO custom soundtracks unless you like having 25% of your screen taken up by that almost useless snap option, no XBOX Live Arcade, no chatpad, that stupid special adapter for the headset (...didn't anyone
learn from the original 360 headset?), no scene skipping for video streaming, and an OS that barely functions. It can't even format a Seagate external drive... a drive that I shouldn't even need if the games didn't take up about 50gb a piece. This "New XBOX
Experience" better be worth the hype, or I'm about to sell off both of my XBOX Ones, and just play my 360 and hope Nintendo pulls their head out of their *** and comes out with a console that will put them back on top where they belong... thank you, drive
through.

Thanks for the fast response. The drive is currently formatted to my PC, and is showing up as NTFS. After I partitioned the drive, and the XBOX One didn't give me the format option, I formatted it on my laptop, and then plugged it back into the XBOX One,
and that's when it gave me the option to format, but booted me to the storage device menu before the formatting was completed. I've tried to format it with no partition at all, just unallocated space, and it would not detect the drive. I tried one primary
partition, and it recognized the drive, but no format option was given. The only way I can get a format option the show up on the XBOX One at all is to have the partition split the drive in two, and then format it on the PC... then it just boots me before
the format is complete. This drive works fine too. I've been using it for 3 months with no issues.

No worries. I should have said USB 3.0 off the start.

Ugh, I just did some research myself. That Free Agent drive is a 2.0, and this GoFlex CAN be upgraded to a 3.0 but you have to fork out for an adapter. I thought that it was a 3.0 out of the box... Well, I guess that solves that. It would have helped if
the XBOX One OS would have told me that, or gave me any kind of error message instead of just booting me to the management screen. This thing still needs a lot of work. I have the adapter ordered already, so when it gets here, I'll post the results. Thank
you for your help and determination Hydro Skillet. You're a gentleman and a scholar.