Can Xbox Live Monthly Free Games Be Downloaded To A External USB Drive?

1. Plug external hard drive into Xbox One with good connection.

2. Download games.

3. Unplug external drive.

4. Take external drive to Xbox One with bad connection.

5. Plug external drive in.

6. Play games.

7. Say thank you.

Note: External drive needs to be USB 3.0 and have 256GB of free space.

Are you installing the game and DLC on the same drive (e.g. an external USB drive)?

Can you try moving the game with DLC to another drive (e.g. to the internal drive if installed on an external USB drive and vice versa)?

Can you also check that you have enough space on this very drive you try to have the game and DLC on (instead the "total" free space shown on the My games and Apps screen)?

For example, you have the game and DLC B installed on the internal drive. The Internal drive now only has 500MB of free space. However, an external USB drive still has 9GB free. So while the console shows 9.5GB free space, the DLC won't install because there
is not enough space on the internal drive.

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%

thank you..was hoping to skip the big downloads.

But also if i use this drive as a usb input wont i be able to play the games directly from this drive if its in as an usb as you can also download games to an external drive

The Xbox 360 has a special partition format that is unreadable without special software.

Your Windows 10 PC (or any other Windows PC), can't "understand" the filesystem structure of the Xbox 360 harddrive.

Also, you don't need to do a backup. You can push your savegames to the Cloud, or use the console to copy it over to external USB drives.

Your Profile is also mainly stored in the cloud, so when the drive breaks, you simply download it from the Xbox Live service.

And finally, the games you have downloaded to the drive, can either be copied to USB devices with the console, or simply re-downloaded for free.

So there really is no need to use your PC to "backup" your Xbox 360 hard drive.