Not enough space error

Internal drive is formatted to be optimized for Games and Apps. When you attach an external drive, you're prompted with options of selecting whether to use the new drive for Games or for Media. If you select games, it will work same as internal drive and
will be optimized for games. For music and movies, you've to have an external drive formatted for media.

The reason, I suspect, is this that Xbox One is primarily a gaming console and thus it needs it's internal drive optimized for loading games faster. With 1TB console, you can install a lot of games on the drive, and that's the reason many select it, just
to have lot of games installed, and storing media on it not being the primary reason.

And here is the post to make it easier.

There is only a certain amount of space dedicated for file storage as they drive is split into partitions. Just like an external drive, it can be formatted for file storage or games and apps. It can't hold both. So
they split the internal drive so there is some file storage with most of the drive dedicated to storage of games and apps. I noticed the same thing when using my console to download videos using torrents or using Edge to download videos. It is the only logical
conclusion given these observations.

My xbox 360 s is saying there's not enough memory when i try to download a game & to go to system settings to free up space but i did. I also went & bought a 500gb internal harddrive stuck it in & formatted it. it says i have 457gb of memory available...
So why does it say i don't when trying to download a 256mb game?

Hi zipel,

I split your response from the thread linked above so that we can create a new thread just for you that other's can join in and help. We lock older threads that get bumped or revived because we encourage those who may have a similar issue to simply just
create a new question thread because you will generally receives more answers that way and it allows you to fully explain the situation instead of on somebody else's old thread.

The answer from Puppy Fujo that you referenced is the most logical answer as the internal hard drive is reserved mainly for games and apps since most of them have big downloads or updates. External hard drives are required mainly if you want to use other
media on the Xbox besides games or apps. The content is still playable but would need to be done so primarily from an external hard drive if you have a lot of downloaded media.

If I try to move the file with another file explorer, I receive the error code hresult: 0X80004005.