Can't install games on my external drive. There is a message: "You can't set your default...

Do you have your default installation location set to be the external drive? If not internal storage will still be set to default

Updates can only be downloaded to the drive where the game is located.

So, even if you have the external set as the default download location, if your game is located internally that is where the update will go. You can't have a games and updates on different drives.

It was a problem with my external drive, I couldn't install those few items to my external drive but I could install them using my internal hard drive by setting it as default.

Set you external hard drive as default location in the settings, and every game will be installed there by default no matter whether install was triggered manually or from PC or mobile.

To do so, follow these steps:

1. Go to Settings on your Xbox

2. On Settings page, go to System, and then select Storage

3. There, on the right you'll see all the drives including your external drive.

4. Select your external drive where you want to install games, and press A button on controller.

5. This will open the menu. Here select the option "Install here by default".

Then to install games from PC or mobile, you will have to trigger the installation remotely. To do so

1 .Open Microsoft store App, or use Xbox.com

2. Find the game that you own and want to install.

3. There click Install button and you'll be prompted to select a device where to install. Select your Xbox One and proceed.

If the external hard drive is the possible cause then try and update something while the hard drive is disconnected.

It may be that your game is on the external hard drive but your default location for downloading games in your internal hard drive so when it goes to update it can't find the game as it isn't in the default location. If this is the case you would need to
make sure that the games being updated are on the internal hard drive before updating.