Question Regarding external hard drives and games on Xbox App PC

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  1. Reed Keel
    Reed Keel Guest

    Question Regarding external hard drives and games on Xbox App PC


    Is it possible to install a game on external hard drive on my laptop at another location, then go home and plug the external hard drive into my desktop PC and have the desktop recognize the game? I tried this earlier since my internet is so bad at home and when I got home it wouldn't recognize the game had been downloaded. I'm using my game pass account on my laptop and desktop. I tried getting it to recognize it was installed by clicking install again but it seems to wiped it when I did that and reset it as if it was never downloaded.

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    Reed Keel, Mar 26, 2023
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  2. Reed Keel Win User

    Question Regarding external hard drives and games on Xbox App PC

    I understand moving them from one drive to another wouldn't be possible, but you're saying even if it's the same exact drive it isn't? I don't understand why not if it's installed on the drive and connected to my PC and installed through the same account it should be able to recognize it. It's not like I'm moving the files from one drive to another, or trying to play it without the Xbox app. If so that's really not user friendly, blows my mind with how bad the Xbox PC app is compared to something like steam. They really don't care it seems.
  3. Obsessive Power Win User

    Question Regarding external hard drives and games on Xbox App PC

    Yes, it's not great at all. But remember that publishers who have signed up and brought their games to the service seem to believe this is acceptable.

    Now, personally, I can perhaps understand partly as the Xbox Service is, for the most part, a rental service. So the publishers/developers may be concerned about piracy. However, it's worse than that. Even if you buy a game on the Xbox App, they're still encrypted. It's a really odd decision to make, especially when the same game on Steam is not encrypted.

    I know, and as a fellow PC gamer, I don't understand it either....
  4. Obsessive Power Win User

    Question Regarding external hard drives and games on Xbox App PC

    Hi,

    Sadly no. The games on the Xbox App are encrypted and can not be shared or moved between different PCs.

    This does not apply to the EA games downloaded via the EA App or the Ubisoft titles from the Ubisoft Connect App. These games are not encrypted.
  5. luissolid Win User

    How to eject an external hard drive in xbox?

    Hello!

    With the External Hard drive first close any Game/App that is using the external HDD.

    Then unplug From the console (try to not move the external Hard Drive before the unplug)

    Regards
  6. Lt Dangs Win User

    Xbox one stopped working after hard restart

    I suppose another question is, can i transfer my games to my pc and then to the Xbox external hard drive some how?
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