Play Xbox 360 Games From External HDD?

Biggien79 · Apr 28, 2020

I have a copy of NCAA Football 14 I would like to start playing again. Instead of playing it off the disc from my 4 GB Xbox 360S I would prefer to install it to a hard drive and play it from there. My question is it possible to use an external HDD from Seagate
or WD to install and play from or do I need to use one of the Official or 3rd party internal HDD's I see on Amazon?

Thanks.

:)

Elohmn

Okay a little confusing but here's how it works. When any External Device be it a HDD or Flash Drive is used as a Storage Device (Memory for the Xbox 360), the Xbox 360 will only recognize it as such (a Storage Device) via the
USB. In short, a really huge External HDD becomes a 16Gb (Max) Storage Device from USB.

Some Games and some Features of Xbox LIVE require an Official MS Xbox 360 HDD that is for that particular Xbox 360 Console (ie Slim with Slim HDD). Simply using an External HDD will not work for these cases. Any External Storage Device is meant to supplement,
not replace an Official HDD or the performance of one that some Games and Features require.

Elohmn

It's also important to note, an External Hard Drive is not used the same by the Xbox 360 is an Official HDD. It will simply "see" the External Drive as a means of Storage. It does not replace an Official HDD as some Features from
either or both Xbox LIVE or a specific Game will not work without an Official Xbox 360 HDD.

Biggien79

Thanks for the reply!! Does it matter if it is USB 3.0 or does it have to be USB 2.0?

matthewiag

Hello

The Xbox 360 does support 3rd party External Hard Drives only up to 2TB

As a side note I have had Seagate Drives in the past and had issues, I only use Western Digital Drives now a days

Biggien79

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I have switched over to WD a lot more lately as well due to issues

Play Xbox 360 Games From External HDD?