Xbox installations starting and stopping. Using an external hard drive VIA USB?

EDIT:

- Tried reformatting drive after failed download.

- Tried changing attached external hard drive to different USB ports that can be installed on Xbox.

When moving or copying the base game to external hard drive, download usually stops around 0.7% to 0.9%

Is this about the internal hard drive inside the Xbox, or an external hard drive connected via USB?

Hi milad,

Thanks for your update. Something you could try is using a USB Storage Drive or External Hard Drive and installing the game to that, if it installs fine the, your hard drive could be damaged or malfunctioning. For more information on using external USB device
for the Xbox 360, check out:
Using USB Flash Drives as Xbox 360 Storage.

I hope this helps.

By external hard drive, I mean the one that snaps in the top, not a 3rd party one that connects via USB. I know using those 3rd party USB hard drives with the Xbox 360 are bothersome.

Hi,

You only really need an official Xbox 360 Slim hard drive if:

• The game insists on using an internal 360 hard drive. There are a select few 360 games that need to install some data from the disc to run, these games need an internal drive.
  
• You still want to play original Xbox games.
  

For almost all other Xbox 360 games you can install to a external hard drive via a USB cable. The Xbox 360 supports external drives up to 2TB. If you connect an standard external hard drive via USB you can just move the game or saves to the external drive.

Unless your Xbox 360 drive is official, you won't be able to play original Xbox games. Most drives are not official. Any official hard drive will be quite old now as Microsoft hasn't made these drives for nearly a decade.

I have an old Xbox 360 I use occasionally for games that are either not BC on the Xbox One/Series X or were never released on PC. I use a 1TB external hard drive. I also want to insure that my Xbox 360s old DVD drive will continue to work into the future, so I install my 360 disc games to the 1TB drive.