installed a game that i have on a disc through network transfer onto my xbox series s and...

Hi There.

You are not able to use external Disc drives or network transfer of gaming disc to the Series S.

The Series S is digital download only and physical game discs are not usable on the system.

Keep in mind this does NOT work for.disk games

Xbox series s is NOT compatible with disk games

If some of those are the games you are trying to network transfer it won't work

Disc games require verification since you don't have a disc drive you cant verify

Keep in mind you have to watch your file sizes

I'd cut down your disc games installs to.make room

The series s only has 512 gigs of space some of which is used by the os and system updates reservation

If anything you are better off using an external hdd and pluging it in

But if you are trying to network transfer disc games it doesn't remove the requirement and it will only slow you down for something that won't work

Network transfer of disk games only work on consoles with disc drives

Not digital only consoles

The only games that work kn the series s is digital only and bc titles that are digital

The Xbox series X will not read the MW2 disc, I have returned it and tried 3 separate copies of the MW2 disc, the console will play other games/discs and read dvds/blue rays as well. But will not read any MW2 disc I insert into the console. The disc will read on my Xbox one. I installed it there and network transferred all the data to the series X and upgraded all the data that was transferred but the console refuses to read the MW2 disc.

It is working as intended

Network transfer only reduces the data you need to download as you are just transfer to another console

HOWEVER it does not remove the requirement of the disk for disk games

No digital only console does what you are attempting

You would need to own it digitally in order to play it on the Series S. Otherwise, you need the disc in the disc drive in order to prove you own the game to be able to play it, which isn't possible on a Series S.