Why won’t my game install on my external hard drive?

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  1. Will Blackman
    Will Blackman Guest

    Why won’t my game install on my external hard drive?


    I have just bought a Xbox series X console and all my games are on an external hard drive. I connected the hard drive to the console, however there was quite a few updates for some of the games. All of my games updated on my external hard drive apart from my assassins creed Valhalla game which updated on the internal storage but it was still on the external hard drive. I tried to delete the internal storage one but it then deleted the external hard drive one to.

    I put the disc in and tried to install the game again but but it still installed on the internal storage and the external hard drive. The game is installed on the internal storage but the add ons install on the external storage.

    Why won’t the game install on my external storage? Even tho I changed the setting to

    Install only on my external storage

    :)
     
    Will Blackman, Dec 4, 2022
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  2. JosefLBohorquez Win User

    Why won’t my game install on my external hard drive?

    Hi and thanks for reaching Microsoft Xbox gamer's community.
    My name is Josef.
    I'm an Independent Advisor

    Hope you're doing great today Will

    Just to let you know, enhanced X/S (like Assassin’s creed Valhalla) games can’t be installed on external hard drives.
    Only on the internal storage, because right 3.0 external drives doesn’t have the enough capacity to play the games , only to store them

    The only way to store and play enhanced games on a external drive is with the Seagate expansion card.
    Your Xbox has a dedicated port for this special card

    In case you need more information about this feel free to check this article
    https://support.xbox.com/help/hardware-network/...
  3. MacAire Ross1 Win User

    Call of duty Black ops Cold war will not uninstall from my Xbox one s

    Yes, I have an external hard drive connected to my Xbox, and the game appears to be installed on the external hard drive.
  4. RafiRazzouq Win User

    Xbox Game Pass PC error 0x8007001f when installing games

    Hi, sorry for that issue, the problem is the external hard drive, for some reason (I don't know why), the games that require Administrator approval have issue on external drive.
    Thanks for the answer. External hard drive it is not the problem in my case. While trying to find a solution to this Xbox Game pass for PC / Windows Store error I did reinstall Windows 10 on my iMac's internal hard drive. The problem with error 0x8007001f
    persists even when Windows 10 is installed on the internal hard drive.

    uild on external macbook hard drive/dual boot) Did you figure any solution to this? i can install other games fine but when i try to install halo mcc it errors out at 4.8%
  5. melanie brown2 Win User

    Can't install Xbox App games in a drive other than C:

    hi. my name is mel and i am an independent advisor. to install games on a external hard drive, first u need to create a folder on the external hard drive to install the games too.
  6. SMG90x Win User

    Xbox One Hard Drive already to small.

    So when i buy an external hard drive do will that add on to my console storage or do games i install install to the external hard drive and my xbox one will play them from there? just curious
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