If you want to keep any games on the drive Do Not follow this because of the xbox automatic reformat. To be able to use it on your computer this is how you do it. 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. Its best not to use a removable drive to avoid not having it available for all uses.
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. I dont use Xbox and really no need to so cant say if it has a procedure for the download and save or if it needs to be done on a different drive or a particular partition on a drive all drives need at least one partition so as to be formatted. It worked fine on my computer until i used it on the xbox one. I had the same issue with my 4tb Seagate xbox edition game drive. 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.
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
This is an article I found when I Googled search this issue. A lot of the reason the drive is formatted that way is to prevent piracy, I would assume. There is a tool called "Xbox One Drive Converter" which will allow you to switch something called the "MBR" or Master Boot Record. Hello there So when you format an external hard drive on the XBOX One, the console formats the drive into a file system that a computer PC cannot see. 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.