Discover pre-existing game files after reformat

Discus and support Discover pre-existing game files after reformat in XBoX on Windows to solve the problem; I have downloaded Gears 4 and Gears 5 onto a separte SSD from my main boot drive. I now need to reformat my main boot SSD to try to fix an issue, when... Discussion in 'XBoX on Windows' started by blankname1, Sep 19, 2019.

  1. blankname1
    blankname1 Guest

    Discover pre-existing game files after reformat


    I have downloaded Gears 4 and Gears 5 onto a separte SSD from my main boot drive. I now need to reformat my main boot SSD to try to fix an issue, when I re-install xbox game pass beta after reformat, will I be able to point the app to the pre-existing
    game files on my Secondary SSD?

    I cannot download almost 200gb of data a second time.

    :)
     
    blankname1, Sep 19, 2019
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  2. SeizeTheFrog Win User

    Discover pre-existing game files after reformat

    Hey, I believe you can copy the game files across into the folder that is created by the Xbox beta app after you have reformatted the drive. However I'm not sure if you can direct the app to scan for games on a different SSD.
  3. Rebelled Win User

    I need some help with USB

    I had the same issue. One day, my USB is working, next day.. Console tells me I need to reformat it for the files to work on Xbox(when I was using the same files the day before).. even after the reformat, it doesn't work anymore.
  4. Darhyl Mayte Amizola Win User

    "Starting Download" doesn't actually start downloading

    Thank you so much for the response.

    It seems the download file for Disgaea has been corrupted.

    I have recently resolved an issue like this. After we have exhausted all the troubleshooting steps, the gamer decided to reformat the C: Drive where the Windows was installed and then downloaded the Xbox app, the automatic download of his game stopped and it works perfectly.

    Before you proceed with the reformat kindly make sure that you backup the files.
  5. NEKO GUNNER Win User

    Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge not launching on Xbox 360

    So I've contacted Xbox support and so far aside from downloading the game again, they asked if I had a hard drive. After I replied yes, I was told that if there is an exclamation mark on the list of games (indicating a corrupt file), that I need to reformat
    the entire hard drive.

    :-|

    There are no corrupt files.
  6. Smith Animal Win User

    Xbox One no longer recognizes my external hard drive's media content after the update

    Hi Everyone,

    Sorry for the later reply, I did not realize that there were responses actually being posted on this thread. An update on my issue personally; I realized the Xbox One reformatted my external hard drive on it's own without any noticeable prompts. What this
    did was format the drive to be compatible with games rather than movies or music. After being reformatted I could not get other devices to even recognize its existence such as my laptop or desktop computers. After doing a bit of research I was able to re-partition
    and reformat the hard drive back to it's original form and reload my movies / music. This process was a lot more complicated than the usual simple reformat. After I plugged it back into the Xbox One I actually got the prompt to reformat this time around and
    declined. Media player from that point on actually recognized the data on my external and everything worked properly.

    Make sure Xbox One did not reformat your external to recognize games only. Note I am also using a Seagate 1TB external hard drive.
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