To be able to use it on your computer this is how you do it.
#HOW TO FORMAT SEAGATE FOR XBOX ONE WINDOWS#
Making small windows partitions is an option but it renders the drive useless on the xbox because the xbox will try to reformat the drive when plugged back in even if you delete the created windows partition. You can from here completely reformat the drive This will open disk management and you will see an extra hard drive with either one unallocated partition or two if you have xbox games stored on the drive. I found through several hours of failed research and experimenting that if you plug it in, hit the windows key, type in disk management and click the first option toĬreate and format disk partitions in control panel. try deleting all the partitions in disk management on your computer and then plug in the drive to the xbox and see if it prompts you to format it. I recently had to transfer my steam game library to a newĬomputer and it was faster to try the xbox external to find my computer no longer read it. It worked fine on my computer until i used it on the xbox one. Select 'Format storage device' once Xbox One pops up the question 'Use for media, or use games & apps' Step 5. Connect the external hard drive to Xbox One via its USB 3.0 cable. Select your storage device, then select Format for games & apps. Start or boot up your Xbox One by pressing its power button. I had the same issue with my 4tb Seagate xbox edition game drive. Press the Menu button, select Settings, select System, then select Manage storage. I realize this is an old post but I cant help but give a response. If you want to give it a try for yourself, click the following link:ĭ/./13584-copy-extract-content-xbox-one-usb-formatted-drive-windows-pc.html (Scroll down and you'll find a post from the developer with an updated version.) The remaining space for media storage, etc.Īgain, I can't vouch for the usefulness of this program since I haven't tried it myself, but it sounds reasonable.
#HOW TO FORMAT SEAGATE FOR XBOX ONE PC#
If you then take that hard drive and plug it into your PC and run the Xbox One Drive Converter, you should see the drive in Xbox One format and can switch it back to PC format without reformatting - this will allow you to use There is a tool called "Xbox One Drive Converter" which will allow you to switch something called the "MBR" or Master Boot Record. There IS an option out there, but I have not tried it, so I can't vouch for its worth. Hi K00MM00! Scoob is 100% correct, a hard drive which has been formatted for Xbox One use is not recognizable by a PC, and vice versa, without a reformat.
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