Using Xbox One as external disc drive for my computer

No, you would not be able to do that. The disc drive in the xbox is formatted specifically for the xbox and is not compatible with normal PC operations.

External HDDs are inexpensive these days you might look into that option. Good Luck!

If you have a USB flash drive or external hard drive, you can copy the music to the drive, plug the drive into the Xbox One, and play it from there (using Xbox Media Player or another app).

As a side note, consider looking for an external USB disc drive if you still need to use discs on your computer for whatever reason. Most laptops and other computers are ditching disc readers nowadays, but you can pick up a USB disc
drive for around $30-40, last I checked.

Related articles:

• Xbox Media Player FAQ: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/console/media-player-faq
• Storage on Xbox One: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/console/manage-storage

and one more question, if I logged into my account on another computer and downloaded the game to an external drive and then transferred the game to my computer from the external drive, it wouldn't work either?

Okay, but if your console dies after you are out of warranty and all your info is on the internal. How are you supposed to get your data off the old console? This is not rocket science! I have been in the computer business since the 90's and was MCSE certified
way back. From win 3.1 to win 95 to win 10 now, you can take an internal drive out of a computer and connect it as an external to any computer and see everything and access the data. I can see it the old internal xbox one drive on my computer but the xbox
one x does not even see the drive. I will be borrowing a working xbox one from a friend, swapping my drive for his so I can use the backup utility in settings to properly move the data to an external drive so the new xbox one x will see it. I just did not
want to have to do this and Microsoft should have a utility to recover data from dead consoles with a computer to do the conversion for use as an external. Does the external drive need to be a 3.0

Seems to me that it is a problem with either the drive itself or the cable connecting the drive to the console.

If you have another external drive handy, try using the cable from your xbox external drive and see if it can connect to a computer or laptop. If it can, then its more than likely a problem with your external drive.

Alternatively, you could test your external drive on another xbox one console.