Help with transferring games between internal and external drives

O07Jester · Feb 29, 2024

Hi everyone,

I have just bought a Seagate 2tb external drive for my xbox one s.It is formatted for games and is ready to go.

However when i transferred a 360 title from internal to external drive,the game still showed on internal storage.

I selected internal storage and selected "manage game" and selected uninstall,but it also removed it from external drive too.

Is there something i'm doing incorrectly?.Any advice is greatly appreciated

:)

Rodrigo Oliver

Hi O07Jester, my name is Rodrigo. I'm an Independent Advisor and a member of the Microsoft community and I'd love to assist you today.

I am sorry to hear that.

Did you copy the game or move it?

Is this only happening with Xbox 360 games?

Press your controller’s Xbox button.

Open the “System Guide” and select “System”.

Navigate to the “Settings” menu and select the “Storage” button.

Under the “Manage Storage” box, highlight your internal drive and select “Transfer”.

Check each game you want to transfer over or “Select All” for a full migration.

Click “Copy” or “Move Selected”.

Make sure to select Move.

Source: https://www.seagate.com/blog/how-to-transfer-xbox-games-to-your-game-drive/

jasonht87

hi - you can move all of your internal games contents and apps onto an external drive (subject to space). there will still be some contents on your internal such as the operating system. if power is interrupted or the drive is disconnected you will just
need to plug it back in and it will work OK. Transfers dont take long between drives as usb3 is quite fast.

HomegrownSilky

Games can be stored on external drives. No need to keep redownloading anything. Store Series X/S games on external drive and then transfer to internal drive when wanting to play.

{james_lachlan_rober

As an idea for xbox one hard drives because they are internal and not external try plugging in an external drive to save or transfer all important games to external hard drive and leave not so important games onto internal drive
that way you can take them anywhere and not have hard drive failures with xbox one.

-Brat

I get this issue sometimes for games. Usually they install to the internal hard drive and automatically transfer to an external, if you have one, and it sounds like you do.

Sometimes my Fortnite updates even force install to my internal instead of external, but transfer over once it's complete and any downtime is over. It could also be a developer preference, yes, where they'd rather you have the game on an internal hard-drive
instead of an external, maybe to prevent data loss if your external is disconnected randomly or incorrectly.

I hope this helps!

Help with transferring games between internal and external drives