Can I share installed games in an external hard drive across multiple PCs?

Discus and support Can I share installed games in an external hard drive across multiple PCs? in XBoX Games and Apps to solve the problem; In short, can I install games into an external hard drive from a PC and launch them on another laptop? I know Windows apps are somehow different in... Discussion in 'XBoX Games and Apps' started by Owen Cai, Jul 20, 2022.

  1. Owen Cai
    Owen Cai Guest

    Can I share installed games in an external hard drive across multiple PCs?


    In short, can I install games into an external hard drive from a PC and launch them on another laptop? I know Windows apps are somehow different in encryption and stuff, can't be sure if they can be ported and carryied to other machines like some other applications. Do I have to install every game on every machine I will possibly use?

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    Owen Cai, Jul 20, 2022
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  2. Ricardo Lechuga Win User

    Can I share installed games in an external hard drive across multiple PCs?

    Hi Owen! My name is Ricardo an independent advisor ready to help you with this situation!

    You need to install the games on the PCs you wanna use them, you could theres a way to move them across PCs but you need to move the files from locations to make it work

    That process is done by selecting install, then pause it, on the path you choose to install the games copy the game files then restart the download, sometimes it works
  3. Owen Cai Win User

    Can I share installed games in an external hard drive across multiple PCs?

    Thanks Ricardo, I'll give it a try.
  4. ngocphi Win User

    Can I share installed games in an external hard drive across multiple PCs?

    Nope as with anything you need to reinstall to register the pc
  5. The Viral Cyrix Win User

    Deleting a cloud save game

    That's strange as I still have the option to delete from everywhere.

    Just curious are you both Neil Jeffery & running the games from external drives?
    Yes my game is installed on an external drive. I also play across multiple consoles and my save does sync across the cloud
  6. Spazpol Win User

    Xbox one hard drive

    I have an external hard drive already on this console and it is near full capacity. Can I add an additional drive and keep the other one installed?
    Yes you can. The XB1 does support multiple external HDDs attached.
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