How to Xbox series x the new one external hard drive doesn't take any updates even when you...

The internal hard drive on the new Xbox series x is totally blank there is nothing on the internal hard drive zero zip so all my games are on the external hard drive told the machine to update to the external hard drive it will not update to the external hard drive do I have a defective machine I just bought it does it need to be returned can you help or not and if you can how to!?

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Xbox Series X games / upgrades / updates has to be installed onto the Series X internal or expansion card SSD,

You can have Xbox One games on your external hard drive that will get an Series X upgrade but the games will need to be transferred to the Series X and then the Series X upgrade will need to be downloaded onto the Series X SSD,

As an example...

I have Marvel Avengers on my external hard drive that will get the Series X upgrade and I will transfer the game over to the Series X SSD ready to download and update the game to the Series X version when available.

You should be able to do that, yes:

"Power down your Xbox One.

1. Unplug the external drive.
   
2. Connect the external drive to your Xbox Series X, S.
   
3. Power on your Xbox Series X, S.
   
4. Wait for the external drive to be detected. This may take a couple of minutes.
   
5. When the drive is detected, you are free to copy any games you want onto the Xbox Series X, S internal storage."
   

Taken from here:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-transfer-data-xbox-one-series-x-series-s

Yes, you can use the expansion card or even an external hard drive to transfer the games to your new Xbox Series X.

Hi,

Current external hard drives are USB 3.0 5,400 RPM mechanical hard drives. These drives are very slow compared to the Expansion card. You won't be able to run Series X/S games from current external hard drives, not even the 2.5" external SSD drives either.
But, you will be able to archive your Series X/S games to these drives to save downloading again.

The expansion card can run all compatible Xbox games. Which will be Series X/S, Xbox One and the BC Xbox 360 and original Xbox games on the BC list.

Xbox One and other Backwards compatible games will load a lot faster on either the internal storage or the expansion card than they would if you ran them off your external hard drive.

Microsoft has a video on YouTube showing 'The Outer Worlds' loading in just 11 seconds on a Series X/S SSD, compared to nearly 60 seconds on Xbox One.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wCX0n9Jci4

I see. So how would i be able to transfer everything i have on my old hard drive to the new expansion card?