External Hard Drive Is Not The Default

Discus and support External Hard Drive Is Not The Default in XBoX Games and Apps to solve the problem; I have an issue that I cannot figure out. I am wanting my external hard drive to be my default location when I install games but my internal drive is... Discussion in 'XBoX Games and Apps' started by TravisMorris2, Oct 30, 2020.

  1. External Hard Drive Is Not The Default


    I have an issue that I cannot figure out. I am wanting my external hard drive to be my default location when I install games but my internal drive is currently set as my default. When I go into the setting/system/storage I go to my external hard drive and
    select it and try to change it to "Install here by default" but it does not change. It is still showing that my internal drive is the default drive. Can anyone help me please?

    I have an Xbox one x and the external hard drive is an external Xbox hard drive.

    :)
     
    TravisMorris2, Oct 30, 2020
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  2. AssertiveGrub90 Win User

    Updating a game causes me to have to reinstall the ENTIRE THING

    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.
  3. gds1972 Win User

    Changing Xbox Seagate game drive

    When I ran out of space on my external Hard drive I just added another external drive to my Xbox One console and set this new hard drive as my default location for installing games.
  4. CarsUn432 Win User

    "Installion Stopped"

    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.
  5. FUTILE29 Win User

    I have a storage problem

    When I download stuff it by default goes to the xbox storage and not the external hard drive.
  6. Ricardo Cintra Win User

    xbox螢幕錄製的存取位置 (Xbox screen recording access location)

    [Translated...]

    Change the default access location of the original computer to an external hard drive, but can not be changed back to the original default You can still continue recording the movie, but the access location of the movie needs
    to be slowly found

    [Answer]

    Hi You can try run the defrag on your External Hard Drive
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