My external hard drive is not letting me play games from it directly on series S.

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  1. Rahul Chauhan1
    Rahul Chauhan1 Guest

    My external hard drive is not letting me play games from it directly on series S.


    My external hard drive is not letting me play games from it directly on series S, while it’s a usb 3.0 wd external hard drive, it’s not giving me an option to store or download games in it, only option is to view files or store clips.

    I formatted it to ntfs, not sure what else to do

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    Rahul Chauhan1, Jan 23, 2023
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  2. Rahul Chauhan1 Win User

    My external hard drive is not letting me play games from it directly on series S.

    I see, I will try using my ssd to make sure my xbox is okay lol!

    Thanks! :)
  3. Georges C. Win User

    My external hard drive is not letting me play games from it directly on series S.

    Hello, first it's a pleasure to be able to help you today.

    My name is welcome to the community.

    Hello Rahul, on new generation consoles Series S/X you can only run new generation games from the console's internal hard drive.

    The games of the previous generation One S and One X you can play directly from your external HD.
  4. Georges C. Win User

    My external hard drive is not letting me play games from it directly on series S.

    Yes, that might be the reason, it might not have the necessary writing and reading speed.
  5. Tezzerrific Win User

    My external hard drive is not letting me play games from it directly on series S.

    when you plug it in with the console on it should ask your to format for games and apps, if not then the controller on the external hdd could be duff
  6. Rahul Chauhan1 Win User

    My external hard drive is not letting me play games from it directly on series S.

    Hi Georges,

    I appreciate the help,

    When I connect the external hard drive to play old gen games from HD, it doesn’t allow me to add games or even save clips, I tried looking more into it and seems my HD is too slow (it’s usb 3.0, maybe because it’s old?)
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