Can I retrieve documents from my external drive that was on it after the drive was used on...

If you did not format the drive then you may find the files still on the drive.

If the updated game is on the External drive, you should be able to retrieve it from the drive and have the update.

It is kinda strange that for media I can use the harddrive, but for documents it needs to be formatted. Why?

I do understand if I want to have my games that HDD must be formatted. But for media?

I do not want to buy another external drive to have for my documents separetely. Have anybody tried it?

So if switching from "Instant On" to "Energy Saving" fixes my issue, does that imply that there's a bug/issue with the Instant On feature and how it works with external drives? If so, will this be documented and addressed?

Alright, I previously had it set to my D: drive for all of them except new apps and documents, which were using my F: drive (external). I read somewhere that Forza Horizon 5 was not installable on external drives and it had to be installed on an internal drive then moved, so because my F: drive is unusable for FH5 its likely that it the defaulted to my C: drive.

My internet is around 2-3MB/s so I'll check in later with how the download turned out. So far the game still runs normally even though the files are missing