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Can external drive be used on both Xbox and PC?

Motorcate

I am wondering if an external hard drive can be configured in a way so that it would work on both a computer (for storing files) and an Xbox one (for storing games). 

 

I understand that hard drives need to be formatted definitely for different OSs but would I be able to partition the hard drive so part of it would work with the Xbox and part would work on the PC? 

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99% sure its a no (though I'm willing to be corrected). In my experience with Xbox, as soon as you plug in an external HDD it immediately asks you to format it to the Xbox filesystem, there's no provision to choose a partition or anything like that, it literally says something like "Do you want to format this 2TB external drive?"

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Yep no problem, Xbox can use exFAT. Not sure about NTFS.

 

More research: "After you’ve formatted a hard drive as external storage for your Xbox One, it will no longer be recognized by a Windows-based PC."  "The reason why Windows doesn’t recognize Xbox One-formatted drives boils down to piracy."

 

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