After installing, I get disc reading errors and it takes multiple tries for it to read. If I remove it, it reads the disc fine. Is it a bad drive?
1436664
Sorry to tell you, yeah it's a bad drive. These aren't official Microsoft hard drives, so sometimes they won't work. Try returning it. Mine works pretty nice, but had I known that it wasn't actually produced by Microsoft, I wouldn't have bought it.
1436665
No it means that the laser lens needs to be cleaned with a disk with brushes. U can get 1 at the dollar store for 5$ and when you use it, let the whole cd run. I had the same problem till i used a laser lense cleaning disk
463381
It did not do that for me. It tried to repair my system, but it didn't work, though it may not have been the disk's fault. I finally figured out the hard drive itself was failing and had to be replaced.
1803884
Mine came with Windows 7 Professional installed. No discs. So I attempted to make my own Windows Recovery discs, and discovered the optical drive would read and write to CD, but DVD was read-only. Contacted seller who is mailing me a replacement optical drive.
1812096
yes I had similar problem. Asus tech support is a good suggestion. I put my original install disc in drive and installed or reinstalled programs not working well, worked like charm!
1424646
probably if you can get it work at all! Every restart I did resulted in it loosing the date and needing reformat (that was two new drives! both same problem).
600158
Try another disk, if that doesn't change then possibly your missing or damaged driver for the drive. Other possibly the drive I'd bad.
1118389
Hard to tell, but if the drive was working fine before putting it in the enclosure, then there's a good chance the enclosure is defective. The quality is pretty bad, unfortunately... Same thing happened to me. I complained and got a replacement. Any chance you can put your drive in a different enclosure, to test it?
1200821
I haven't had any problems like that up to this date. I was actually suprised by the quality of this hard drive because it looks like an exact clone to the Microsoft one. I know this doesn't really answer your question and that's because I haven't in countered your problem. I am not going to swear by this HDD as the reading might be your Xbox or might be the HDD if your looking to buy it do it. It's insanely great quality for the price.
1988812
Yes and yes also note I have a problem with it from the first week it became un formatted in such neither computer would recognize the drive it kept wanting to be formatted wich in turn would erase my data. My av receiver still reads it ant it only reads fat32. Bipartisan was informed but they were no help at all
926434
Although I don't own this particular drive, I am here as I am looking to buy this one also to add to my two other Seagate 500gb Freeagents that I already have that have been working flawlessly for me for over 12 months now. I honestly think that your experience was most likely caused by a faulty unit. Without knowing your computer configuration (windows, mac or linux) it's hard to say if any extra steps would need to be taken to set it up, but for a windows or linux based pc it should be simply plug and play in my experience. As you see on this site, there is only one bad review of the product. If you think about how many of these must get sold every year, one bad review is pretty good as almost everybody will take the time to complain, but very few will come back to write a positive review as a working product is what most people expect. So I guess the short answer from me is yes, I would give this drive a second chance, but then again, i may be biased by my great experience. I hope that this is of some help to you..
183770
I do not what to say about the drive, i installed the drive in my laptop and in less than a month the drive failed.I had to reformat and install everything again. Now the drive is apparently working fine.I'll wait a bit longer before I conclude my opinion in this matter.
583316
Good points. It's still relatively new, and I wonder especially how the hard drive model has held up. My new one arrived DOA, and now I'm really struggling over whether to ask Amazon for a refund or an exchange. This baby may be intended to be Solid State all the way, which means the hard drive models will be unwanted period pieces in another year or two.
1157851
ive been burning with amazon's basic dvd+r stuff for a while and after a few hundred disks, very few fails.i think my drive is burning up now, is the only problem, but its old and has about 1k burns through it.
1941987
Yes I can help,I had the same problem your disk you got is junk,don't waste any more time,call Amazon to send New stuff.
1065546
You shouldn't have to. Try a different port. And also wait up to 60 seconds for the drive to be recognized.
670048
I had the same problem with this drive. If you have a hard drive format cd from another drive, you may have to use it. I had to end up using a Linux Mint disk, format the drive through gparted, reboot, reinstall the partition table, and format it again.
2268186
Exchange the drive for a new one ? The one you have is obviously bad....good luck