External hard drive only

Discus and support External hard drive only in XBoX on Consoles to solve the problem; My official Xbox 360 internal hard drive is faulty. I was wondering if it would be OK to take it out and use an external USB hard drive instead. Has... Discussion in 'XBoX on Consoles' started by The 4th Estate, Oct 2, 2015.

  1. The 4th Estate
    The 4th Estate Guest

    External hard drive only


    My official Xbox 360 internal hard drive is faulty. I was wondering if it would be OK to take it out and use an
    external USB hard drive instead. Has anyone got any experience using only an external hard drive with an Xbox 360?

    :)
     
    The 4th Estate, Oct 2, 2015
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  2. KiericSonnen77
    KiericSonnen77 Guest
    All my games are gone

    After the recent update, all my games have disappeared from my external hard drive. In system setting storage, it list the external hard drive and says 242.3 GB of 2.8tb free. But under my games and apps it shows no games on the external hard drive only
    the games on the internal hard drive.
     
    KiericSonnen77, Oct 2, 2015
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  3. StuartATrueRed
    StuartATrueRed Guest
    External Hard Drive with Xbox 360

    Could your friend be talking about an external hard drive with an Xbox One. You can use an external usb 3.0 hard drive with that console, but you can only use external storage upto 32gb on an xbox 360.
     
    StuartATrueRed, Oct 2, 2015
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  4. Irixion
    Irixion Guest

    External hard drive only

    I recommend buying a new HDD and using a transfer kit. Some items require an internal drive to function correctly. This is an inherent design issue, and possibly a DRM 'feature'. You'll have issues with an external only.
     
    Irixion, Oct 2, 2015
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  5. Malacath
    Malacath Guest
    No you can't use an external only

    The 360 requires at least one drive to be a system drive. The operating system or at least parts of it need to be stored on this.

    A system drive can only be an internal drive or a USB drive formatted as a system drive. USB system drives can only be up to 32GB.

    So you basically have 2 choices.

    Either buy another official xbox 360 hard drive which is the recommended option

    Or use both a 32GB Flash drive formatted as a system drive as well as a USB hard drive.
     
    Malacath, Oct 2, 2015
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  6. The 4th Estate
    The 4th Estate Guest
    Thanks for the replies, very helpful.
     
    The 4th Estate, Oct 31, 2018
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  7. Irixion Win User

    External hard drive only

    I recommend buying a new HDD and using a transfer kit. Some items require an internal drive to function correctly. This is an inherent design issue, and possibly a DRM 'feature'. You'll have issues with an external only.
  8. The 4th Estate Win User

    External hard drive only

    Thanks for the replies, very helpful.
  9. Malacath Win User

    External hard drive only

    No you can't use an external only

    The 360 requires at least one drive to be a system drive. The operating system or at least parts of it need to be stored on this.

    A system drive can only be an internal drive or a USB drive formatted as a system drive. USB system drives can only be up to 32GB.

    So you basically have 2 choices.

    Either buy another official xbox 360 hard drive which is the recommended option

    Or use both a 32GB Flash drive formatted as a system drive as well as a USB hard drive.
  10. VAC9 Win User

    Why are my games freezing and crashing

    What nestor said is this happening during playing games and also are the games on an external hard drive if this happens on an external hard drive and only the games crash it could be a dieing external
  11. One Pint Johnny Win User

    Tv configuration App Not working

    Having the same issues. Could be something to do with the external hard drive maybe, not had time to troubleshoot yet though.

    Some ideas to try maybe?

    1. Make the Xbox One drive the primary drive, while the external drive is still plugged in

    2. Try with the external hard drive unplugged

    No idea if this will make a difference, but this issue only started for me since I got an external drive. Unless others are having the same issue with no external hard drive?
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