Bro, I tried all the methods I knew and failed, many videos of tens of minutes long and offer nothing explanatory, looking at your video I solved the problem in less than 3 minutes. Your method is the simplest and best. Thank you very much, you just won a new subscriber.
Thank you for not having 30 minutes of ads and getting right to the point :). Now with my 8 TB hard drive I might be able to fit Call of Duty MW on it -_-
I just ordered the 2tb but I was thinking about the 4tb but if I need more space I will just have to buy one more because my pc is running out of places to put them
Just earned my subscription because dude this video was quick, simple, and understandable. Switched my external over from my PS4 over to my laptop and couldn't get it to work and now it does, nothing was more satisfying than seeing a steam game that required 40 gigs have 2tb of room to download on
thank you! I watch tutorials every time i get stuck and usually searching for hours on how to get something stupid to work... you explained it perfectly and got straight to the point
I can not thank u enough! My daughter's Xbox suddenly didn't see her external storage. After holding the button and restarting, unplugging etc I had no idea what to do! U walked me thru step by step and it suddenly kicked back to life! Plugged it back in to the Xbox and it can see it again (albeit empty but hey!) So she has a fresh hard drive to download evrything again. THANK YOU!!!!
Amazing how easy that was. I needed to try and format my Seagate HD to capture video. I wasted 20 minutes googling it and trying to follow the steps there. Should have come straight to TH-cam. You are awesome!! Liked and subbed. Still works in Jan 2022.
LITERALLY the BEST video that explained this whole process XD I spent sooooo much time trying to figure this out and researching it THANK YOU SO MUCH MAN!!
DUDE!! Thanks so much!!! I just received my new 2T hard drive from amazon and spent the last 2 hours trying to figure out why it wasn't popping up under my storage and I was trying to format it to NTFS so I can record game clips on my xbox. I watched tons of vids and googled my problem and randomly came across your vid! I was about to return my hard drive cause I thought it was defective! Liked and subbed! Thanks a million!!
Has any tested this on a PS4/PS5 yet without having to reformat and doing this all again? I’m trying to transfer content to my PC without having to use small USB drives.
Works! If you right click and there is no "New Simple Volume" listed, delete the volume from the top bar or from the right-click option. Afterward the "New Simple Volume" should now be there after right clicking.
Dude, I have spent the last 2 hours GPT'ing this question and following paths to nowhere. Then I google, see this video at the top watch, and boom, problem solved. Thank you so, so much...
I love you man my External Hard drive was connected to my XBOX series S and I didn't know how to format it. Thank you so much for your help I was about ready to throw my external hard drive out but you saved it for me Thank You So much lots of love man.
Wow.I am blessed to have found your video.Thank you.I was able to find my drive because of it.Keep sharing your knowledge.By the way you sound you'll gonna reach heights in your career.
This was the easiest solution on TH-cam! Every other tutorial was a dead end! After 2 hours of going through tutorials, FINALLY an easy program I didn't even know to use and it was on my WIN 10. Thank you Finest!
I appreciate the brevity and directness of this video but when I plugged my new evolution hard drive in the initialize disk, dialogue box did not come up, and there’s no instructions for how to make it come up if it doesn’t. This is especially frustrating considering that this is the video that the documentation referred me to to set up the drive. I’ve now tried this on three different computers and it doesn’t work on any of them, so I am not able to format and use this drive and I will have to return it.
Hi. I manage a band Galaxy Thief and usually work with a Mac, so had no idea how to reformat an SSD that I had formatted for the Mac to work on my windows PC. Thanks to you I did it in no time. Many thanks
Thank you for explaining this so well I had external hard drive that I thought was broken. It stopped working on my Xbox and then I plugged it up to this computer and I couldn’t see it in my computer so I thought it was broken but if I did this, I could see if it was truly broken, but I don’t have it anymore. I thought it was garbage because I thought it was broke so I threw it away
At 2:32 after I click next and finished..I get the oh so pretty red box, along with the horrible bung sound saying " the parameter is incorrect"..any idea?
dude you are a life saver thank you. worked for me the first time. just so everyone knows. i have a standard 2TB ext hard drive. not a microsoft branded one.
Thank you very much. I have two external hard drives for my XBOX1. And moved all the games from the smallest 1TB USB external to the other external 2TB and the internal. Yet I was stuck trying to reformat this the NTFS! You saved the day! Thanks! I didn't do the short format though so mine is taking longer. I will post this video in my Socom facebook club. Also maybe the other bigger club. Thanks again!
@@LiIFinest I posted it in two places on facebook. One is my own Socom PS3 hang out and a bigger Facebook Socom place of maybe 14K people or more? You were a great help! I even downloaded two apps to see a way to wipe a harddrive. One was a trial and asked for money. Other asked for admin tools right away. Then I figured there has to be a genius on youtube. You were hook line and sinker for genius for formatting a external hard drive to NTFS! Thanks again!
NEED HELP. when i plug in my storage it says Its for media but i want it for my games on xbox. Usually it gives people the option to format it in xbox to make it for games but i dont get that option. can anyone help?
Hi I managed to get to 1:15 part of the Video however tho. It came up after I said "ok" as an error and now is says my External Hard Drive "disk 1 unknown" I'm not sure what to do. Could I get some advice
hi i purchase 6x 5tb external hdds and i always use WD Quick formatter but now i get this error on new drives: wd quick drive format does not support changing the block size of your wd external drive
My 4tb external hard drive isn’t showing up on disk management plz help. I’m trying to make it work on my Xbox one but nothing shows up on the Xbox but the light is on.
@@LiIFinest The window popped up once and I click GPT and nothing happened, it doesn’t show it at all and when I unplug the hard drive the disk 1 thing shows up and disappears. What do I do?
Mines does not show any unallocated black line or primary partition lines. It just says disk 1 removable D: I can't right click on anything nothing is there. When I click format option in this PC nothing happens.
I've been trying to do this to my hard drive! Thank you for the tutorial. VERY helpful. (and no im not a spam comment im an actual person who has followed this tutorial)
Unfortunately, mine is too broken. Get error, "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error". The external hard drive got ruined after losing power one day.
I’m so close but it doesn’t show new simple volume, there’s extend volume, shrink volume, and delete volume. I’m also using the ps4 2tb USB. What do I do?
I have a seagate HDD 1tb and everything worked fine. The only issue I have now is it won't let me set it as my capture location on the capture settings. It pops up in my storage devices as for music and videos and I clicked used for media when prompted too. Idk whats the issue? Also it is a 3.0 usb
This video was very helpful. I'm moving a WD MyCloud hard drive into an external enclosure. Would I follow the steps in this video to access the files contained on the drive?
I am able to Format in exfat format but not in NTFS... As try to format in NTFS, the system kind of hangs for very long and displays formatting however nothing happens thereafter... Kindly help
3 years later and still the only video that made sense and actually worked. 10/10 Thank you!
Bro, I tried all the methods I knew and failed, many videos of tens of minutes long and offer nothing explanatory, looking at your video I solved the problem in less than 3 minutes.
Your method is the simplest and best. Thank you very much, you just won a new subscriber.
@@LiIFinest does it earnest my data on it
imma be real, i hate the intro, but you saved my ass with your simplicity, i was trying to format this thing for hours
Thank you for not having 30 minutes of ads and getting right to the point :). Now with my 8 TB hard drive I might be able to fit Call of Duty MW on it -_-
Lol
I just ordered the 2tb but I was thinking about the 4tb but if I need more space I will just have to buy one more because my pc is running out of places to put them
Just earned my subscription because dude this video was quick, simple, and understandable. Switched my external over from my PS4 over to my laptop and couldn't get it to work and now it does, nothing was more satisfying than seeing a steam game that required 40 gigs have 2tb of room to download on
4 years ago and yet still probably the most useful vid explaining this. Thanks!
thank you! I watch tutorials every time i get stuck and usually searching for hours on how to get something stupid to work... you explained it perfectly and got straight to the point
I can not thank u enough! My daughter's Xbox suddenly didn't see her external storage. After holding the button and restarting, unplugging etc I had no idea what to do! U walked me thru step by step and it suddenly kicked back to life! Plugged it back in to the Xbox and it can see it again (albeit empty but hey!) So she has a fresh hard drive to download evrything again. THANK YOU!!!!
Still works perfectly Nov. 24 2021, love this video, thanks
Amazing how easy that was. I needed to try and format my Seagate HD to capture video. I wasted 20 minutes googling it and trying to follow the steps there. Should have come straight to TH-cam. You are awesome!! Liked and subbed. Still works in Jan 2022.
LITERALLY the BEST video that explained this whole process XD I spent sooooo much time trying to figure this out and researching it THANK YOU SO MUCH MAN!!
Dude I wanted to convert mine from NTFS to exfat for PS4 and you made it simple. Thank you.
It’s always been so easy if you look around PC settings as he showed you towards the end. The real challenge is formatting it to extended storage.
DUDE!! Thanks so much!!! I just received my new 2T hard drive from amazon and spent the last 2 hours trying to figure out why it wasn't popping up under my storage and I was trying to format it to NTFS so I can record game clips on my xbox. I watched tons of vids and googled my problem and randomly came across your vid! I was about to return my hard drive cause I thought it was defective! Liked and subbed! Thanks a million!!
Has any tested this on a PS4/PS5 yet without having to reformat and doing this all again? I’m trying to transfer content to my PC without having to use small USB drives.
I always manage to forget how to do this every few years, thank you!
10 videos later, and yours is the most informative. Thanks my dude
You're the goat fr, thank you so much. Nearly bought more storage lol
This was a big help, thank you.
It's now working for my PS5
Thank you very, very much!
Works! If you right click and there is no "New Simple Volume" listed, delete the volume from the top bar or from the right-click option. Afterward the "New Simple Volume" should now be there after right clicking.
Even after a year of you upload this video thank you. This helps.
Dude, I have spent the last 2 hours GPT'ing this question and following paths to nowhere. Then I google, see this video at the top watch, and boom, problem solved. Thank you so, so much...
I love you man my External Hard drive was connected to my XBOX series S and I didn't know how to format it. Thank you so much for your help I was about ready to throw my external hard drive out but you saved it for me Thank You So much lots of love man.
A year later and this still works. Thanks man
when I click it says the request failed due to a fatal device hardware error
I’m on the same
2 years later and still helping
Thank you for not wasting time
This video was really helpful and I'll be sure to come back when I need to do something techy
Last time I did a HD format was??? Glad you were here. Thanks
Thanks man it worked! 2021 December 10th
Yeah when I right clicked it none of it popped up and if I pressed any of them it would say function not available does anyone know why?
1:33
Wow.I am blessed to have found your video.Thank you.I was able to find my drive because of it.Keep sharing your knowledge.By the way you sound you'll gonna reach heights in your career.
Thank god bro. Been looking all over the place for this. Nothing seemed to work. Thank you for helping me out
This was the easiest solution on TH-cam! Every other tutorial was a dead end! After 2 hours of going through tutorials, FINALLY an easy program I didn't even know to use and it was on my WIN 10. Thank you Finest!
@@LiIFinest It keeps saying Data error (cyclic redundancy check) and it won’t initialize. Can you help with that?
@@LiIFinest Thanks, worked like a charm.
We're you able to keep all your data?
I appreciate the brevity and directness of this video but when I plugged my new evolution hard drive in the initialize disk, dialogue box did not come up, and there’s no instructions for how to make it come up if it doesn’t. This is especially frustrating considering that this is the video that the documentation referred me to to set up the drive. I’ve now tried this on three different computers and it doesn’t work on any of them, so I am not able to format and use this drive and I will have to return it.
thank you so much! I thought I could never get my hard drive back because I accidentally formatted it to my Xbox and I wasn't thinking!
Thank you bro! Nice and easy straight to the point. Took me 5 min total to do it. Great vid!
Spot on cheers pal, spent ages trying to locate this external, I wouldn't of found it with out this vid 👍
Thank you my guy. I was getting frustrated. I appreciate you getting straight to the point. Ty ty.
this was way more useful than other videos. Thank you so much
Thank you. Worked perfect. And thanks a bunch for getting straight to the point.
Thanks for this guide. It was very easy to follow, and got my new external drive up and going.
Brother after right click I don't see new simple volume option, what can I do next please help
Same
THANK YOU SOO MUCH. I thought there was no way to undo and make the drive into a NFTS. But you showed that it is possible to do it. so thank you
Thank you for the assistance. It’s amazing. My external hard drive is working again…
all the other videos were wrong but this one is right...
good job
Bro, you're amazing. You made it so easy.
Thanks a lot!! Really helped me out, now I can install games on gamepass pc, after 2 days of trying to figure it out
Hi. I manage a band Galaxy Thief and usually work with a Mac, so had no idea how to reformat an SSD that I had formatted for the Mac to work on my windows PC. Thanks to you I did it in no time. Many thanks
I can't believe this, thank you very much. I'm glad I found you
YOUR THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD HELP BRO THANK YOU
really appreciate this video after more than 10 videao finnaly found the one! bravo
i love you, an amazing i struggled with this for so long and have been so frustrated and no other videos could answer what i was asking
i was very very low on storage and i had my spare external couldnt figure out how to format it by myself super easy to follow along thanks
Thank you for explaining this so well I had external hard drive that I thought was broken. It stopped working on my Xbox and then I plugged it up to this computer and I couldn’t see it in my computer so I thought it was broken but if I did this, I could see if it was truly broken, but I don’t have it anymore. I thought it was garbage because I thought it was broke so I threw it away
Man best straight to the point help. Thanks a lot and keep it up!
Really appreciate the help my guy. save me having to buy a whole new hard drive
worked a treat was just about to bin the hard drive but now thanks to your help working great
At 2:32 after I click next and finished..I get the oh so pretty red box, along with the horrible bung sound saying " the parameter is incorrect"..any idea?
Great fucken video spent an hour trying to figure out how to bro. Your awesome!
bro, thank you so much for fixing my hardrive! earned a sub
Don't know if you still monitor the comments on here but thanks for this quick and helpful video bud! Totally helped me out in 2022 😃
dude you are a life saver thank you. worked for me the first time. just so everyone knows. i have a standard 2TB ext hard drive. not a microsoft branded one.
Thank you very much. I have two external hard drives for my XBOX1. And moved all the games from the smallest 1TB USB external to the other external 2TB and the internal. Yet I was stuck trying to reformat this the NTFS! You saved the day! Thanks! I didn't do the short format though so mine is taking longer. I will post this video in my Socom facebook club. Also maybe the other bigger club. Thanks again!
Also learned something new today! Thank you again!
@@LiIFinest I posted it in two places on facebook. One is my own Socom PS3 hang out and a bigger Facebook Socom place of maybe 14K people or more? You were a great help! I even downloaded two apps to see a way to wipe a harddrive. One was a trial and asked for money. Other asked for admin tools right away. Then I figured there has to be a genius on youtube. You were hook line and sinker for genius for formatting a external hard drive to NTFS! Thanks again!
Thank you! First video I opened to format my xbox HD, very simple and easy to understand
NEED HELP. when i plug in my storage it says Its for media but i want it for my games on xbox. Usually it gives people the option to format it in xbox to make it for games but i dont get that option. can anyone help?
Thank you dude I thought my disk is forever formated to xbox. But you really helped me to fix it Thank you.
Thank You Man, Super Helpful! Currently Formatting Now! Got A 10TB For My Gaming PC!
Great video. Thanks man you help me fix my portable hard drive that got corrupted somehow on my PS5. You the man!
Awesome! Thanks for the help. This worked to format my (Xbox) drive, to work on P.C.
Hi I managed to get to 1:15 part of the Video however tho. It came up after I said "ok" as an error and now is says my External Hard Drive "disk 1 unknown" I'm not sure what to do. Could I get some advice
hi i purchase 6x 5tb external hdds and i always use WD Quick formatter but now i get this error on new drives: wd quick drive format does not support changing the block size of your wd external drive
New simple volume doesn't pop up for me but some of the others do, I had this issue before but can't figure out what I did before to get through it 🤯
Fantastic little video. Does this type of format work for a Zidoo media player today or a NAS storage bay system.
My 4tb external hard drive isn’t showing up on disk management plz help. I’m trying to make it work on my Xbox one but nothing shows up on the Xbox but the light is on.
@@LiIFinest The window popped up once and I click GPT and nothing happened, it doesn’t show it at all and when I unplug the hard drive the disk 1 thing shows up and disappears. What do I do?
@@LiIFinest I updated it and it said it was fine.
Thanks so much!!! i was bout to break my external with rage!!!!
Bro you saved my ass it was so confusing to get that to work thank you my guy :)
Thank you for getting straight to the point this was so easy
Mines does not show any unallocated black line or primary partition lines. It just says disk 1 removable D: I can't right click on anything nothing is there. When I click format option in this PC nothing happens.
Mine says basic data partition rather than primary partition and I cant install anything on it
I've been trying to do this to my hard drive! Thank you for the tutorial. VERY helpful.
(and no im not a spam comment im an actual person who has followed this tutorial)
THANK YOU SOO MUCH !!! I have been looking for a video for about 3 hours and yours helped !!!
Unfortunately, mine is too broken. Get error, "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error".
The external hard drive got ruined after losing power one day.
Absolutely amazing super helpful and got straight to the point
Thank you, I was having such a hard time with this. I guess I'm just getting old. It didn't used to be this roundabout to reformat drives. 😂
I’m so close but it doesn’t show new simple volume, there’s extend volume, shrink volume, and delete volume. I’m also using the ps4 2tb USB. What do I do?
Perfect!!! 7months later thanks my man
Ok so im here at that page but its only showing my pc storage i dont see the external ssd to be able to hit format
thank man the only video with details!!!
Thank youuu bro! The best and easiest tutorial
Thank you so much for this video.! My hard drive stopped working for my ps5 and this fixed it quick .! Now I can enjoy my games again
I have a seagate HDD 1tb and everything worked fine. The only issue I have now is it won't let me set it as my capture location on the capture settings. It pops up in my storage devices as for music and videos and I clicked used for media when prompted too. Idk whats the issue? Also it is a 3.0 usb
This video was very helpful. I'm moving a WD MyCloud hard drive into an external enclosure. Would I follow the steps in this video to access the files contained on the drive?
AWESOME VID! Thumbs up👍👍 and subbed.
You are a life saver, I thought I would have to drop 80$ more on another one
So now I can use it on my gaming pc for more storage right
Thank you I remember it the old way didn’t know how to do this but great video 10/10
OMG you are THE best,I thought I have to buy a new One and badabing badabo you fixed it by youe asom Video
Thanks for making this so short and easy
I am able to Format in exfat format but not in NTFS... As try to format in NTFS, the system kind of hangs for very long and displays formatting however nothing happens thereafter... Kindly help
Thanks alot man. Helped my brother with his external hard drive for ps5.
What do you do if the device doesn’t pop up in disk management