Update=no hard drive games?

If the external hard drive is the possible cause then try and update something while the hard drive is disconnected.

It may be that your game is on the external hard drive but your default location for downloading games in your internal hard drive so when it goes to update it can't find the game as it isn't in the default location. If this is the case you would need to
make sure that the games being updated are on the internal hard drive before updating.

Hello Vash,

Thank you for keeping us updated. There are some instances in which games on an external hard drive do not receive updates. We recommend moving around some of the games on the internal and external hard drives. Since your internal hard drive is full, you
can move some of them to the external hard drive. Once the internal hard drive has some extra space, we suggest moving some of the games from the external hard drive to the internal. Check to see if those games require any updates. Be sure to let us know the
results!

The internal hard drive on the new Xbox series x is totally blank there is nothing on the internal hard drive zero zip so all my games are on the external hard drive told the machine to update to the external hard drive it will not update to the external hard drive do I have a defective machine I just bought it does it need to be returned can you help or not and if you can how to!?

In a related problem with some arcade games, I discovered that one game - Pacman - installed on my memory unit, asks for an update when the hard drive is inserted. However it does not perform the update but gives a -0185 problem error. When removing the
hard drive, the console and Pacman game start up without asking for an update and is playable. No other Arcade games installed on the memory unit seem to have this issue with the hard drive inserted.

When trying to download Assassin's Creed II onto the memory unit (without the hard drive inserted) it does restart download but because the memory unit has only 4 Gb it then notifies me that the device is full. Once the hard drive is re-inserted, it simply
breaks off download on the hard drive claming it's already downloaded.

Oddly enough, on the hard drive itself all installed games update and play without a problem. No corrupted or disappeared files can be found, .... Maybe there's a bad sector on the hard drive?

@Daft Badger- As Killswitch51880 said,that is for console (Dashboard) updates. There is no way for individual game updates to be downloaded to a PC. You will have to connect the console to Live in order to update the game. Your hard drive must also be
an official hard drive.