Old console showing as available to install to

OneHand3dClap · Feb 10, 2020

So, i have a question that I'm hoping someone will have seen before. I have used to have an Xbox One S and sold it after i bought my X. When i did this I factory reset the console and signed out of it, then made sure it was removed from my devices on my
Microsoft Account. All this went smoothly!

However, when I purchase games digitally now, I get the option to install them either to my X or my now non existent S! Does anyone have any clue how to remove this device from my list of consoles?

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StuartATrueRed

The device might still be registered on your Microsoft devices list. Check on here

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/devices If it is, then un-register the device, and hopefully it should no longer show up on your list of devices to install to.

Ackis

Console or PC?

If console, go to my games and apps - is it installed or listed there as available to install?

If PC, load it up in the Windows store - does it show purchased?

Tudes24

Hi.

I've tried this but on the new Xbox one s the ready to install doesn't show any of my purchased downloaded games that are available on my old Xbox one s.

Nkosana23

It may show your game available and already purchased on your Mobile device. Then you can install it on your console.

ArminatorX

The new games are on discs. So am I right in saying I should be ok to install them on the new xbox, and if I don't insert the disc on the old (home) xbox, they won't show up as ready to install?

Physical games on disc will only work and install on the console you installed the disc on.

So if you only insert the disc into your new console, they do NOT show up on the old console.

If you do NOT want the games on the old console (if the new One X is the christmas present), you're done. Just make sure you turn on the console one day before christmas and check for updates, just to be sure.

Also, if not already done so, make sure that your kids have their own accounts, and do not use your own adult account for your kids!

If you DO want the games on the old console to be ready for christmas, you will have to manually install the games on the old console (or use the network transfer to copy the games to the old console through your home network). Or you could install the disc
games on the external hard drive, and on christmas eve, simply plug the hard drive in the console you wish to play the games, and insert the disc as "proof of purchase", and the console will run the game without needing to wait for installation, or updates
(if the game was already updated on your new console).

Old console showing as available to install to