Can You Partition An External Hard Drive For Xbox One

Here highlight system and select the option labelled storage.

Can you partition an external hard drive for xbox one.

Xbox one can only work with a maximum of 2 external hard drives at once. On the next screen you will see your xbox one s internal drive as well as your external drive. You ll need two drives. Select the xbox one external hard drive which shows as disk unknown not initialized and choose initialize disk from the context menu.

There should be proper partitions on the drive. Then choose a partition style and confirm. You need to initialize the hard drive first and then recreate. But when an xbox one external hard drive is connected no partition is displayed.

I d recommend getting a 2 3tb drive for the xbox so it will do you for a few years. In the pop up menu that appears select transfer. The usb storage should have a 3 0 connection type. Also 500gb is not going to be enough for the xbox unless you plan on buying another drive in a year or so.

Its a better idea anyway because if one fails you ll only lose have the data.