External HDD question

K0rN b4LL · May 19, 2015

If I get an external hard drive for my Xb1 will I be able to install full disk games to the external or can I only put downloaded games on it? Like can I put Destiny or The Witcher on the external and play directly from it?

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Bazajaytee · May 19, 2015

External Hdd question

The Xbox One doesn't have a rip CD function. Instead, you rip it using PC/Mac and put it on storage media or OneDrive and pull it from there. As you are on Mac using OneDrive would probably be the easiest due to HDD/Storage format differences.

NTFS can be read by PC and Xbox One along with FAT and FAT32. The Mac doesn't use that format but maybe there are tools which allow you to read/write to a HDD using that format?

If not, you could stream from your Mac to your Xbox One using things like Plex.

Dcontrol · May 19, 2015

External HDD Question

My kinect started to do this so try this solution, it worked for me. I simply powered off the console, unplugged the kinect, unplugged the power supply lead, waited around 1 minute so that all the power had fully discharged from the power supply and connected
everything back up, powered it up and now it works as normal.

Hordie · May 19, 2015

Hi K0rN b4LL,

With the Xbox One games, all are technically installed on the console. So with that YES you can install this game to the external hard drive, and/or move it from your console to the external drive. That said if you have a game with a disk you will be required
to put the game in the console prior to use. I've included a couple links for external drive troubleshooting and setup.

Setup External Drive on Xbox One

Troubleshoot External Drive Detection

Let us know if you have any other questions!!

worm34

I'm having the same problem here. My new 2TB HDD arrived, I told Xbox to format for Media, but when I plugged it into my Mac, I saw I did not have permission to write to disk, I noticed that the disk was formatted in NTFS....is there any file system that
Mac, PC, and Xbox can all use? I had the Original Xbox and I can remember putting in a CD and Xbox asked if I wanted to import tracks. This time I can't find any option for that. I don;t understand this!!

steven ckelly

Thanks steff your a star bro!

You saved me lots of time with this!

PaulBacon

I thought a 5400rpm USB3 would still be faster as it can transfer more data per second than the internal SATA? Plus it doesnt have the OS to deal with

FearedNightmare

Hello

The Xbox One's internal drive is 5400rpm so you would have to get a 7200rpm external drive at least

CMUchippewa

You can absolutely do that. I had to do an advance exchange, so I put all my stuff on my external HDD so it would save time instead of re-downloading everything for my replacement console. The only thing is when you play an app or game for the first time,
it take an extra 10 seconds to start, stating that it is getting the game ready. After that, it starts up everything normally. I hope that made sense. Also, it will load your saved games from the cloud, which take an extra few seconds. Hope this helped!!!

External HDD question