games not playing from external hard drive

DOVAKIN47 · Dec 29, 2016

I've got a Seagate 2Tb hard drive.

I am having problems playing games from it on my xbox one at my dads, the drive works on the one at my mums.

It shows all the games on there and how much space is available.

It was formatted and most used by my xbox one at my dads first, but since I've connected it to the second xbox using my account, I am having problems playing games, they quit saying its taken to long to start.

:)

CanadianSnipper · Dec 29, 2016

External hard drive problems

I was playing Xbox one evening and my console froze, so I restarted and tried playing again, most of my games were installed on my external hard drive. I tried playing every game I had on my external hard drive and none would start.

I completely reset my console and external hard drive, i installed games on my internal hard drive and they all work, but the games I installed on my external hard drive still do not work.

Fenix Law · Dec 29, 2016

Transferring games

Can I transfer my games from one external hard drive to another external hard drive.

Mister Maka · Jan 2, 2017

Hey there DOVAKIN47.

A few things to check, have you tried a full power cycle on your Dad's Xbox One to see if there's any change? Hold down the power button for 8-10 seconds until your Xbox One powers off completely. If you're still having trouble after that, can you try removing
one of the games and re-installing it to see if there's any change? Keep us in the loop with how it goes.

LegoNinja187

You simply need to plug the external hard drive with the Xbox One games on it into the new console, then you can play games from the external hard drive, or transfer them from the external hard drive to the internal hard drive. You may need to update some
or all of the games, which will require the internet. But you don't need to re-download the whole game.

Obsessive Power

Hi,

If your game is now a Series X optimised title, it can no longer be played off an external hard drive. It must be moved to either the internal storage or an optional expansion card.

External USB hard drives are too slow to play Series X optimised games. None Series X games will still run from your external drive. The internal storage in the Series X is a fast NVME SSD. These drives are several times faster than mechanical hard drives.

VAC9

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

uG87 by RAW

@BookishFlunky90

# It is easy to create a new GAMERTAG, but I want to save everything from the new GAMERTAG on the external hard drive

# The reason why I want to create a new ACCOUNT/GAMERTAG for family members and guests on an external hard drive is:

1. the second Gamertag will get an other email and own XBOX LIVE ACCOUNT

2. I will install different games which I won't play, but family members will play

3. I want to split the games between the hard drive from the XBOX ONE ELITE and the external hard drive

4. so they(user from the new/second GAMERTAG) can install/play what they want on the external hard drive

# U are right that we had more free space on the XBOX 360!

SMG90x

So when i buy an external hard drive do will that add on to my console storage or do games i install install to the external hard drive and my xbox one will play them from there? just curious

games not playing from external hard drive