I accidentally deleted all my XBox one games off my external drive.

Hello

It’s only a problem on my Xbox one x but I do have external hard drive however I have tried it on both internal and external and both do not work, I also deleted off all games on my internal and tried it on that and again did not work.

Appreciate your help

Why are you copying the game over instead of moving it to the external drive? That way you don't have to delete it after you moved it.

And maybe you accidentally already moved it, and deleted it from the external drive when it was already moved (deleted) from the internal drive.

So i tried something. I unplugged my external hard drive which has most of my games on it. All games installed on my xbox I can delete. So does that mean my external drive is going bad?

Hey, thanks for reaching out! Well, firstly, I have plenty of room on all of my drives, soooooooooooooo that is not a factor. I have my Xbox One X set to stand by as my power setting. And I do have my external drives set to turn off when my Xbox is turned
off. The "When Xbox is off, turn off the storage" is chosen in my settings. And I have my default drive as my external WD 4TB. With all that said, my Xbox is not choosing where a file is already sitting. And my
Xbox sees all of my drives all of the time.

I will try the "When Xbox is off, turn off the storage" as unchecked. Maybe that will make a difference . . . but if my default drive is an external drive . . . . and games are downloading there, new and updates . . . . . and "When Xbox is off, turn off
the storage" is checked . . . why would anything still be put there if "When Xbox is off, turn off the storage" it's off . .. . . ? I do understand the instructions, but as to what that means as far as "when xbox is this, external drives will do this" setting
it's hard to differentiate. Because you have the xbox that can be completely shut down vs. stand by, and how does those settings inform the "When Xbox is off, turn off the storage" setting. You tell me.

Thanks

B

I tried your suggestion with the "When Xbox is off, turn off the storage" as unchecked. Still made no difference.

Just last night I was having issues with Split/Second recognizing my DLC for whatever reason, that's a different topic for a different time . . . ANYway, I have Split/Second and all its DLC on my internal drive, and my WD 4TB as my default download location.
I deleted all the DLC for Split/Second, again, which was on the internal drive, but left the main game on the internal drive. When I went download my ready to download items for this game, which is on the internal drive, my Xbox started to download all the
DLC onto the default drive, which is the external WD 4TB.

This is not an Xbox 360 game issue, this has been the case with Xbox One games as well. I've found two copies of the same game located on different drives, one being the default download location, the other being where I want it stored.

I would think the Xbox would be able to detect where a game is stored before downloading the game again for update reasons, or DLC, or whatever. This seems to be an internal logic issue, not a "don't have the right box checked" issue. I don't remember my
Xbox behaving this way with one external drive. But with two external drives, it now is an issue.

Thanks

B