External HDD Not Recording Gameplay Up To An Hour on Xbox Series X

You can't record gameplay for 2 hours. Max is 1 hour, but that also only if you've an external storage connected. Without external storage you can record 2 minutes at 1080p.

Hello, OGCryptor!

I’m sorry to hear that you’re having trouble recording your voice with your Xbox Series X. It seems like you’ve already tried a lot of troubleshooting steps.

As of now, the Xbox Series X does not have a built-in feature to record voice commentary over gameplay using the console’s capture system. This is a limitation of the current system and not something you’re doing wrong.

The options you mentioned were indeed available on older console models but are no longer present on the Series X.

If you want to include your voice in your gameplay recordings, you might need to consider using external hardware or software. For example, you could use a PC with capture software that can record both gameplay and commentary, or a dedicated game capture device.

I hope this helps clarify the situation. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask!

Cristiana

Hello Guys. I have a question.

I have bought External HardDrive, but I need to keep here some of my personal data (just documents).

Is it possible to use it as a media HardDrive for recording also with the data kept here?

Or do I need to have fresh formatted HDD to record gameplay?

Also how large will be file in 4K of one hour of recorded Gameplay?

Thank you all for help.

No, the usage of the external HDD only have 2 options, use as
media HDD and no need to format the HDD (but you cannot save games content there) or use as
HDD for games content (it will format, erase everthing and
will work only for installations storage).

For now still isn't possible to do both things.

Power cycling is useless. Complete factory reset is useless. Xbox support chat is useless. Already tried each one. It is a software issue, where Xbox has changed the menu on the Xbox series x so that the "record what happened" feature, usedbto record previous gameplay, can only record 1 minute of previous gameplay. My original Xbox One from a decade ago can record previous gameplay of the same quality for up to 2 minutes.

You can still use external HDD for your Xbox/Xbox 360/Xbox One games but you can't play Series X/S games from them,

Series X/S games can only be played from the internal or external storage card,

with game file size's getting bigger, that 1Tb internal NVMe SSD is going fill up quick.