Xbox hard drive keeps going back to unformatted

Discus and support Xbox hard drive keeps going back to unformatted in XBoX on Consoles to solve the problem; Hello, my xbox 360s has developed a rather annoying fault where as a workaround I am having to use a USB stick as the storage device. Essentially... Discussion in 'XBoX on Consoles' started by ThE AzY, Apr 5, 2014.

  1. ThE AzY
    ThE AzY Guest

    Xbox hard drive keeps going back to unformatted


    Hello,

    my xbox 360s has developed a rather annoying fault where as a workaround I am having to use a USB stick as the storage device.

    Essentially every so oftten sometimes mid game my xbox will restart and my xbox will show the hard drive as unformatted. I have formatted it multiple times and tried removing and re inserting the hard drive. I have even replaced ty hard drive But it keeps
    happening. It will sucesfully format and work for sometimes hours sometimes a day until it will go back to an unformatted state. Any help please as a 32gb USB stick simply doesn't hold enough.

    :)
     
    ThE AzY, Apr 5, 2014
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  2. cstruck32
    cstruck32 Guest
    Format Hard Drive

    I'm having issues formatting my hard drive for the xbox 360S. Hard drive keeps showing up "unformatted" so I format the hard drive and nothing happens, Xbox keeps saying that it is unformatted. Any solutions to this problem??
     
    cstruck32, Apr 5, 2014
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  3. UBADxLEGACY
    UBADxLEGACY Guest
    Hard drive keeps telling me too format?

    The other day i turned on my Xbox 360 and no profiles were found, So i went to settings then memory and it says my hard drive was unformatted. So i entered my serial number and formatted my hard drive. After i did that i restarted my xbox and went back into
    memory and it still says unformatted. I repeated the formatting process mutiple times now and it still says unformatted any ideas on how to fix my hard drive???
     
    UBADxLEGACY, Apr 5, 2014
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  4. Your Dead McFly
    Your Dead McFly Guest

    Xbox hard drive keeps going back to unformatted

    The circuit board sounds like it is acting up. Might want to think about a repair or new console.
     
    Your Dead McFly, Apr 10, 2014
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  5. Your Dead McFly Win User

    Xbox hard drive keeps going back to unformatted

    The circuit board sounds like it is acting up. Might want to think about a repair or new console.
  6. ArguedPlace6857 Win User

    hard drive

    my hard drive will not let me go into anything it says it is unformatted and wont read in the xboxs
  7. Mister Cerb Win User

    brak połonczenia z xbox live [Translation: No xbox live połonczenia]

    Hey there Fir! Are you saying that your hard drive is unformatted? When you go to System, then Storage does your Hard Drive read as unformatted? I'm trying to make sure I understand the situation.
  8. HassanB Win User

    Unformatted hdd

    Once a hard drive is coming up as "unformatted" that means that the Xbox 360 can no longer read the data that's on that hard drive.

    You can try to remove the hard drive and place it back in the console and see if it makes any sort of difference. If it doesn't then that means that the data is already gone as there's no way to read data that's coming up are "unformatted" on a hard drive.

    You'd need to format that hard drive in order for it to be readable again. If this happens again, it's likely an issue with the hard drive and it would need to be replaced.
  9. DRG StonerPooch Win User

    Ohhhh this may sound stupid

    yo my hard drive for 360 keep saying its unformatted all because of an update by xbox and i dont want to formatted
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