How To Reformat An External Hard Drive From An Xbox On To A PC
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If you are using an HDD that is over 2TB select GPT when initializing the disk in disk management. If you already chose MBR watch this: • How To Convert A Drive...
This tutorial will show you how to reformat an external hard drive if it was used as a storage device on an Xbox One or other console.
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Quick Correction! If you have a hard drive over 2TB set the partition scheme as GPT! If you already chose MBR here is a video on how to convert to GPT: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pICVo7iYhrynj7g.html
@vvcxqzac
3 жыл бұрын
what if its exactly 2tb?
@TheHowToGuy123
3 жыл бұрын
@@vvcxqzac do gpt
@zandorito2843
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheHowToGuy123 how do i change it when i already put it in?
@GerardAgnesHanepNaVlogger
3 жыл бұрын
I read this late and eas not able to put it into GPT. Would that be fine?
@floydie5536
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheHowToGuy123 what if it’s 2TB but in the thing it says 1.8tb free? I already set mine up as master boot
Absolute best tutorial ever. Straight to the point, simplified everything, and was a huge help! Thank you so much!
Absolutle LIFE SAVER!!! Thanks dude, Quick, simple, to the point. LOVE THIS!
This guy is an absolute genius, I had a 2TB external on my xbox 1, My PC would not recognise it at all. Followed instructions in video, now I got it back Greeeeaaaaaaaaaaat. Thank you so much. Vangellis UK
The best tutorial to date, easy, no annoying music, straight to the point and helpful. A sub from me
This is probably the most useful help video I have ever watched. I was so close to returning the hard drive I had bought on Black Friday because nothing seemed to be working, and nothing seemed to be giving any answers, but I found this video, and it got me all the answers I needed, and in such a short, to the point time as well! Thank you so much, and keep up the great work!
@TheHowToGuy123
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! 😊
@stanlyvarghese9048
6 ай бұрын
@@TheHowToGuy123 hey! Will this work on a seagate game drive external hdd to use on PC? Is there any downside to using a game drive over a normal external HDD?
@maelanschwarz2509
6 ай бұрын
@@stanlyvarghese9048 This might be a little late but it does, It worked for mine just now.
Thank you so much bro, I was running out of gigs for my pc and I had a 8 TB HD for my Xbox that I didn't use and now I'm able to use it! I tried looking everywhere for help and you really help me out
This was a great help and worked perfectly. Been slowly playing more PC games lately and upgraded my Xbox hard drive to 4TB a year ago. I can now use the old 1TB hard drive for pc games which will be a great help as I've only had 200gb to use for games for a while. Thanks so much for this great tutorial
this has gotta be one of the best tutorials I've ever seen, bro got right to the point and wasn't being confusing at all
This was one of the easiest tutorials to follow, honestly saved me a lot of time thank you so much!
Bro, been fighting w this used hd for a while, you just stopped me from throwing it in the lake out back. GREAT walkthrough.
Spent like half an hour trying to figure out why my hard drive wasn't working. Started this video, and worked strait away. So big up my man here. Cheers mate!!
3 years later still clutch! Thank you, you king.
Thanks my dude. Its very rare that you actually find a tutorial video that actually suites your needs and you accomplished that. Cheers Kyle!
WOW! this was easier than i thought, thanks man subscribed!
Great vid. Exactly the info I needed in a precise and effective manner. Always great to find a video like this that doesn't have 10 minutes of preamble and just gets right to it
Thank you soooo much man, wasn't sure how to do this and was going to buy a new HDD for my PC before I found this video. First class work! Thanks!!!
Thank u so much I’ve been trying to do this for a while now and I found the right video!
Thank You so much!!! This was so helpful. I have searched multiple times and was not able to find useful instructions and this was so quick and easy
@TheHowToGuy123 Dude thanks so much for this video! I had such a hard time trying to figure out how to reformat my hard drive but after watching your video I managed to do it no time flat!
bro just saved my whole career lmaoooo
@freddycarrillo6666
3 жыл бұрын
What was the problem??
@haesuslipbalm
3 жыл бұрын
My issue was xbox errors but now I got that issue out of the way and my xbox wont read the hdd. Ports arent bad. Hdd appears on a pc but not disc manager
@haesuslipbalm
2 жыл бұрын
@ScareMr X yep, taking advantage of the warranty was my fix.
@haesuslipbalm
2 жыл бұрын
@ScareMr X hdd
@tryxjay8289
10 ай бұрын
Ong, just had an extra drive and deadass thought about buying a 5tb but a 2tb is good enough for now😭
lovely tutorial i actually had 1.8TB because of some of the games that i left installed on it but it was super simple and to the point
@zeropyrex6260
Жыл бұрын
So wait you’re Xbox games were playable on pc??
@EGGROW1
Жыл бұрын
@@zeropyrex6260no
3 years later and you still helping. Thanks bro
this was the best tutorial in a long time man this was straight too the point and full proof works 100% all the time thank you for this
super simple, dummy proof. exactly what i needed. thanks!
Worked perfectly. When it didn't automatically show up when I plugged it into my laptop, I freaked a little. Thanks for saving the day! lol.
You are a LIFE saver, I have my old xbox one with an external SSD that I don't use since I built a PC and I was running low on space because I do editing (both video and images), 3d modeling and programming and I said: well might as well use that SSD, but It didn't got recognized, this video was perfect, straight to the point and worked the first time! I finished passing all the work related material to the SSD and I saved a LOT of storage
thank you so much kyle! I can now return the internal drive I thought I needed!
I had an issue following this as I was using a 3TB HDD and MBR is limited to 2TB so it mad the remaining portion of the hard drive an unusable partition that i couldn't allocate, so note to anyone else wanting to do this with a HDD bigger than 2TB use GPT instead of MBR to begin with
@IamTRAILERPARKrich
3 жыл бұрын
I read this 20 seconds too late.... Fml their goes my 6tbs *Nevermind, you right click on the disc # to the left and then convert it too a GPT disc.
When I plug my hard drive in, the "initialize disk" window doesnt pop up nor does it appear as an option in disk management
@gabrieldavis4434
3 жыл бұрын
I figured it out! You need to allocate the disc space by right clicking on it under disc management and selecting create new volume. Follow the wizard. No setting should need to be changed. Providing a link just in case. www.dummies.com/computers/pcs/how-to-use-unallocated-drive-space-in-windows/
@austinwilson4286
3 жыл бұрын
THIS! thank you so much!!!!!
@brandonscott1357
2 жыл бұрын
I had the same problem, plug it back into what you were using it with, reformat on that platform and then retry on the pc, I couldn’t figure it out but now it works
thanks man! years later this video still helped me on windows 11 I just had to chose gpt rather than mbr. Great video!
You will probably never see this considering your video is released 3 years ago but the way you describe and go through stuff is freaking amazing thank you so much
@TheHowToGuy123
Жыл бұрын
Thanks 👍
When I try to initialize my disc to MBR it say an error happened ?! After that it won’t let me initialize it again ?!! What do I do ? It won’t let me initialize, that’s my problem.
@clearwashere
3 жыл бұрын
It's now in action, i think. Top bar.
its not working for me. the "initialize disk" window doesn't open for me after I click on "create and reformat disk partitions." can you please help me
@thesundayway
4 жыл бұрын
Energy REFLEX thx
@thefearlessrogue5060
4 жыл бұрын
Can u help us somebody I'm having same problem. And it doesnt show up in disk management only on computer management
@scaryshark9995
4 жыл бұрын
hey, idk if your still having this problem but it doesnt matter, it only means you can skip that step, just do the new simple volume
@squidwardsnose3069
4 жыл бұрын
or just go to file when it pops up
@jonathanmartinez2354
3 жыл бұрын
My hardeive doesn’t show up at all!!!!!!!! What do I do
Actually the best and only tutorial i found its always a random guy from 5 years ago who has the same problem as me but knows how to fix it
Thanks alot man, been lookin around for how to do this the last few days so now it is good to go :)
when entering where the "initialize disk" would show up, nothing shows up except my old hard drives. HELP PLEASE
@bobothenooba8525
4 жыл бұрын
same here
@nielsenlamarre3310
4 күн бұрын
you have to out in fullscreen for you to see it
@matbrownie2797
4 күн бұрын
@@nielsenlamarre3310 I figured this sh*t out a couple minutes after posting this question, but I guess your answer could be useful for someone who is still looking for the answer...
“””PSA”””Just for anyone that stumbles across this comment- Most of the Xbox external storage units are USB 3.0 which means your load time for games on the Xbox external will be tremendously faster than a regular external storage 😁
@morphingprimal7809
3 жыл бұрын
Do i have to uninstall all the games on the hard drive before I do this?
@KrimsonKegg
3 жыл бұрын
@@morphingprimal7809 no once you plug it in to your pc it will automatically wipe the hard drive for you
@morphingprimal7809
3 жыл бұрын
Krimson Kegg Ah so all my installed games will just be gone?
Thank you for making this video. Helped me out immensely. I am very rusty with operating systems since Windows XP. Lol. I am on limited sleep and no time. Patience was very low. Thank you for salvaging what little time I have on this weekend everything worked out great. Very appreciative. Keep up the good work.
Awesome and precise video. I will be trying this soon on my green seagate that I originally bought for XB1 but no longer use 😅 thank you!!
Thanks for the share. Just the info I needed. Keep up the work.
Thanks bro. Hooked up my fam with a extra external HDD i had for my xbox. had to figure out how to format it z& you came in clutch.
2023 and your still saving people my guy!!! It was definitely hard to figure out!
Worked like a charm as I almost started hiting my console due to laptop being able to read the HDD while the console didn't :)))) Thanks bro ✌🏻
absolute legend this was exceptionally useful and being so easy to follow
Huge salute to the guy who made this video. Huge respect. Thank you very very much.
*4 years later* and still Clutch in *2023* Thx so much bro! 🙏💯
Thank you so much I couldn’t find any tutorials that worked till this one❤️
Forgot how to do this. Thank you for the quick and to-the-point reminder. Cheers!
thank you needed to setup an hard drive i was using for my xbox back to computer so could lend it to my mom so she can use it for storage wonderful and easy to follow tutorial thanks again
Most usefull video ive seen on this spent hours looking for such a simple one like yours 👍💯
Bro... this came in so clutch! I bought another HDD yesterday for my PC but forgot I had one for my Xbox. Since I rarely play Xbox now, I cleared it and moved everything off of it so I could save some money and return the one I just bought. Getting back home I thought just plugging it in would work... it didn't. But thanks to this video I saved myself from looking like an idiot because I would've just rebought the HDD. But I found this beauty of a vid! Thanks man!
4 years later still helping people out, just coped one from Facebook market place and nothing, watched the vid and now I have 1tb extra, great vid🤙🏽💯
i have been looking for an answer to this for hours now thank you so much
Thanks for this! I just switched to an external SSD for my Series X and was able to repurpose the HDD I was using for PC storage.
Thanks bro was just attempting to do this myself this morning decided to check the interwebs for a quick how to and you absolutely nailed it.
Thank you so much. I don't use my Xbox much anymore and need more storage on my PC, this helped alot.
Thank you so much for posting this, needed to reformat my external hard drive from my xbox s to my pc. :)
Genuinely thank you for this tutorial, I was halfway to ripping into the hard drive and seeing if there was a brain I could pick at.
4 Years later and it still helped. Thanks alot!
Great tutorial even 4 years later, thank you so much
Have a relatively low space laptop so I wanted to format my xbox drive to it and couldn't figure this out for the life of me. You're a saint
This worked perfectly for my 2TB Seagate hard drive that I had connected to my xbox one. Thanks for the easy how to!!
Thank you so much for making this video, I couldn't figure it out for the life of me. Happily liked, commented and subbed for you efforts
Very helpful and straight forward to follow. Thank you 😁
Thank you! Easy and to the point. Appreciate it.
Quick and to the point, thank you so much dude!
Thank you so much. Such a life saver. I don't use my Xbox One much anymore, and I desperately needed a media storage solution. I didn't want to buy another one since I had a 2TB drive just collecting dust with old games on it.
Solved issue perfectly. I would just indicate what Windows version you are using in the video. Windows 7 follows it exactly as you have it. A BIG THANK YOU.
This is the best quick help video in this plataform, decided to subscribe, who knows, I might have problems again, at least now I have a place where I know it will work!
you just saved me big time buddy. Crazy how simple it was too. Thanks a lot!!!
First Tech Tutorial that did what I needed help with.
Thanks alot I been stack in my control panel not knowing what do next but this helped me out alot
Thank so much i was so confused after using it on my xbox and then pc but this tutorial helped loads quick and easy
Thank you so much! I was so confused on what to do but this video really helped again thank you so much!
Thank you!! Exactly what I needed and easy to follow.
Thanks for this video man, it came in clutch!
Quick and simple ? In this timeline ? Bro I love you.
Wow, I thought I had lost my hard dive until I watched this, thank you so much!
HELPED OUT A LOT. Thanks friend. For making this. :) Also, make sure to scroll down if you have a lot of USBs like me. I couldn't find my storage device at first because I didn't realize all of devices were popping up and there was a scroll option. Just a FYI.
I had a old external hard drive that I used to have on my Xbox one fixed a while ago and was trying to connect to my new PC but I was confused when nothing happened (Never really interacted much with a pc until recently) this video was really helpful for a non-tech wizard such as myself so thanks for the guide and saving me from having to buy a new hard drive.
yo i dont know if youll ever see this or not but i want to thank you bro this helped out so much
my xbox recently died so i figured it was time to finally set p my pc and devote my games to it, while i do regret formatting my seagate because of simple memories with friends and whatnot im sure i can make more good memories thanks to your tutorial seeing ashow windows updates take up like 60% of my base storage so big thanks for the tuto that wasnt overly complicated or stretched out helped alot
I really appreciate this had a 1 terabyte hard drive that I used on Xbox One and when I got the series x I had no need for the hard drive anymore but now I can use it for my PC thanks bro✊
This helped a lot. Idk what I would have done if I didn't find this video!
Needed this in English, thank you for your hard work.
Life saver! Thanks man! I accidently formatted my hdd for games and apps when it was supposed to be for media (game capture)
Thanks mate really a nice simple tutorial I'm definitely subscribing
Great, simple tutorial for a specific need.
Thank you so much bro!! I didn’t have to buy an ssd when I just had an external hard drive just lying around. Life save bro 🙏🙏
Thank you so much, I had trouble with mine and you just Helped a lot.
This is helped me save my final essay. On the last semester before I graduate. Thank you!
JUST WANE SAY GREAT JOB IT HELPED A LOT AND NOW IM SET TO GO YOU ROCK ON DUDE
Man I just watched this thank you this just saved a lot of money and time thank you
Thank you so much. Def gonna follow for more.
worked perfect. you saved me a huge headache! thanks man
Such an easy to follow video!!!! Thank you
OMG! THANK YOU SO MUCH you litterly just saved me from about to have a panic attack from not knowing how to format my external storage.
@morphingprimal7809
3 жыл бұрын
Do i have to uninstall all the games on the hard drive before I do this?
@aguaSMOOTH
3 жыл бұрын
@@morphingprimal7809 if you want those games then I would put them on something else if you you care about the games but if not then just format it.
@aguaSMOOTH
3 жыл бұрын
@@morphingprimal7809 but I'm not an expert on this
Thanks man helped a lot leaving a comment cause I've heard It does good things for KZreadrs and already left a like
Thank you I've been searching for this