Games disappearing-disc games downloading instead of installing from disc

BornBuckeye · May 17, 2014

Recently my Xbox one has started to remove my games that are already installed. When I put the disc-owned games that I have into the drive, it proceeds to download the game and not install from my disc.

Any ideas what is going on?

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StuartATrueRed · May 17, 2014

Xbox vibrating when downloading a game

When you say downloading a game, do you mean installing from a disc or downloading from Xbox Live? If installing from disc, then there is a some vibration from the the spin of the disc when the game is installing.

btrips · May 17, 2014

Game Installation By Disc Fixed On Xbox One?

Have any of the recent updates fixed game installation by disc? Have heard that game installs by disc can be very long if the One is connected to the internet because the console will download the entire game and updates instead of doing the main game install from the disc. Not sure why this was ever an issue because the console should have been able to detect when a disc is inserted and do the game install from the disc. Only updates should have been downloaded.Click to expand...
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When you install by disc it installs from the disc. It doesn't download the entire game, only updates.

bigbenx88 · May 17, 2014

It should be both installing from the disc and also checking online for online updates and installing those as well. But if you insert a disc the system will default to that method of installing the game.

GrowlingYapper · Oct 31, 2018

Install off line it will be faster as well if wired just remove Ethernet cable if wireless you will need to disable in settings/network when finished reconnect install any updates

bigbenx88

It should be both installing from the disc and also checking online for online updates and installing those as well. But if you insert a disc the system will default to that method of installing the game.

GrowlingYapper

Install off line it will be faster as well if wired just remove Ethernet cable if wireless you will need to disable in settings/network when finished reconnect install any updates

MessiahBrowny

Have your reached your limit on the hard drive space?

2shoog

see my fix in here. Before installing game, turn internet off, install game from disc, THEN turn internet on to download patch etc. It wants to download game from internet instead of game disc.

Obsessive Power

Hi,

Did you know you can download your disc games instead of installing them directly from disc? All you need to do is insert the disc, when the game begins installing, cancel it. Find your game from the Xbox Store, it will show a price, but don't worry about that. If you've found the correct version of the game that matches that what's in the drive an 'install' will show instead of a 'Buy' option.

Selecting install will download the game from Xbox Live instead of the disc. You will still need the disc inserted to play of course, But you can remove the disc with this process and play something else.

This should work on most disc based games. Of course, install time may take longer depending on your download speed.

There are certain advantages to this if your connection speed is good. The first is being able to play a second game (even another disc game) while downloading and second, being able to download the rest of your game with the console in 'Instant on' power mode.

Games disappearing-disc games downloading instead of installing from disc