external storage hard drive beeping

[celest maple]

I don’t know whats happening I’ve had my external hard drive connected to my xbox for years and it is very important because it has most of my games stored on it and for some reason when I plugged it in today it keeps making this beeping noise and it wont show the games that are stored in it on my xbox and no matter what I do it keeps making a beeping noise and wont connect to the xbox what is happening did it break???

[iron bay]

A beeping sound is never good. If it makes the same sound if you attach it to another device I'd say your drive has gone bad.

[celest maple]

If I get a new one can I transfer the games from that hard drive to the new one?

[keen light]

yea you can plug several (maybe 4?) usb drives in at the same time and you can copy/move games between them

if your old drive is dying though, some of the copy/moves might fail

you won't lose any data though - all your purchases and game saves are stored in teh cloud

[iron bay]

I mean, if it beeps and never shows the games on it you probably won't have much luck copying anything. You might be able to get lucky temporarily though.

[celest maple]

So all my games on my external hard drive are gone???

[celest maple]

Is there a way I send it to go get repaired?

[rocky lake]

Just but a new HDD and redownload your games.