Backwards Compatibility & External Hard Drives

james scutt · Jan 23, 2016

I was wondering, because I have 2 external hard drives with all my games on my xbox 360...

will backwards compatibility allow me to just hook my externals on to an Xbox One and play the games that are compatible ?

I watched the video on it covering the different methods with licenses and the live store, but nothing was mentioned about just transferring external drives..

This would defiantly make a Xbox One more appealing.

:)

Tormaz · Jan 23, 2016

What is that one Xbox feature that has you hooked?

The achievement system & backwards compatibility. Though Cloud saves and external drives are pretty solid features as well.

HassanB · Jan 23, 2016

the game couldnt start try downloading it game again GTA SA

Original Xbox games that are on the backwards compatibility list will only work with original Xbox 360 hard drives from Microsoft. That's how it's been forever, you cannot run these games on knock off/fake hard drives, or even your own hard drives. They
will also not run on USB Flash Drives, or external hard drives.

ngocphi · Jan 23, 2016

No you have to redownload them from.ready for install because they have to be patched

HartCore Opa · Jan 23, 2016

I'm using a 2 TB Seagate HDD with my XBOX one and have all BC 360er games installed there, because all BC games must be downloaded again on your HDD or Xbox One internal HDD again because they will be Patches with the reworked software parts. All BC 360er
games at my external 2 TB HDD are working fine !!

james scutt · Nov 2, 2018

okay, so I can use the hard drives, i'd just have to redownload all the games... hmm. that makes it worth considering.

Onyx Is Here

In order to play backwards compatible games the console will need an official Xbox 360 hard drive. If you have a 3rd party drive or an external hard drive connected you will not be able to play these games.

brandiesel1

I think you can get as big a hard drive as you want as long as it's compatible. The internal memory is 500GB.

Yes you can store those items on an external hard drive.

I doubt it will ever be backwards compatible.

Smwutches

You should look for USB 3.0 compatible portable HDD's. I use a 2TB Seagate on my Xbox 360.

Note that you can store and play only Xbox 360 or backwards compatible Xbox games. You will NOT be able to play Xbox One games.

Good luck!

Note that external hard drives do not have the files needed to play backwards compatible games on a 360. Only an official MS 360 hard drive does. So an external drive would not work in this case.

thedrummer1000

Also, is an official xbox 360 external hard drive backwards compatible (In case I want to get, lets say Halo 2)

Smwutches

External USB drives can work fine for storage, but there are certain 360 games and backwards compatible games that require an official MS hard drive because of the system files on them. If a game is asking for a hard drive, it is looking for a 360 drive.

Backwards Compatibility & External Hard Drives