flash drive not ntfs?

LillieHackworth · Apr 2, 2021

i recently downloaded xbox on my microsoft pc and im trying to download a game onto my flahdrive but the error says its not ntfs, please help

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Farscape247

you would need to reformat the pen drive to ntfs but WARNING it will wipe anything on there. also you will find that the pen drive might not support a game running from it as they are notoriously slow.

Obsessive Power

As 'Tezzarrific' has already pointed out, you'd need to Format it to NTFS. However, it's not worth it at all. Flash storage, even USB 3.1 drives from reputable well known manufacturers such as SanDisk just aren't anywhere near fast enough for playing modern PC titles.

Even running games off an external hard drive isn't really ideal on PC, unless the drive is an SSD. It's not going to work well, or perhaps at all on a Flash drive.

ngocphi

If you are trying to make the game portable it won't work as you need the dependencies and install files which you don't get as they are downloaded and installed then deleted after installation

Windows games aren't portable

AquarrzSudnnym

If the USB drive you're using is formatted NTFS you will not be able to transfer any of the contents to the internal XBox drive as it is formatted differently.

Formatting flash drives support

Paul Bab

Thanks for responding. We recommend using a different storage device on your Windows 10 PC. Make sure that it is formatted as NTFS. For information about how to format a USB flash drive to NTFS using a PC, see How
to format a flash drive to NTFS on Windows.

If the issue persists, you may proceed with resetting your Xbox One console to factory defaults using a USB Flash Drive. Check out this

page to know more about it.

Keep us posted.

flash drive not ntfs?