Is there anyway to launch my games on my external hard drive without manually copying or...

Hello!

Hope you are well. I'll be glad to assist you.

I'm sorry you're experiencing these issues.

This happens when you're trying to run a game optimized for Xbox Series consoles. These types of games require internal storage capacity to run; they can't be run from traditional external drives.

Only Xbox 360 or Xbox One games can be run from external USB drives.

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You are using transfer, which is to move the contents of your internal hard drive to the external hard drive instead of copying, you do not need to manually delete the contents of the internal hard drive (because they are already on the external hard drive).

I have all my games installed on my external hard drive and I don't have any problems. The only thing that happens is it has to take 5 seconds to load when you launch a game or app for the first time from the external hard drive. After that, it opens up
without any delay. I bought a 1TB hard drive and it works flawlessly.

Hmm.... My xbox just will not check for updates for games on my external hard drive. I have to ipdate them manually.