Will uninstalling and installing games on XB1 break your hard drive?

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  1. Rhythmneo
    Rhythmneo Guest

    Will uninstalling and installing games on XB1 break your hard drive?


    Will uninstalling and installing games on XB1 break your hard drive? I am running out of space and need to know from someone at Microsoft if uninstalling and installing games will break your hard drive or have it wear down faster?

    :)
     
    Rhythmneo, Jul 12, 2015
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  2. Zesty Hamburger
    Zesty Hamburger Guest
    Help needed. Split screen multiplayer problem, asks current player to join!

    That's an unusual error. Try hard-resetting your console and/or uninstalling and re-installing the game download.
     
    Zesty Hamburger, Jul 12, 2015
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  3. gds1972
    gds1972 Guest
    I bought a game on xbox store, it keeps crashing i cleared console cache, it's still not working, what do I should do?

    Have you tried uninstalling then hard reset the console and re installing the game yet as mentioned by Genesis1953?
     
    gds1972, Jul 12, 2015
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  4. Tronder 007
    Tronder 007 Guest

    Will uninstalling and installing games on XB1 break your hard drive?

    Hi Rythmneo.. I can't see any reason that uninstalling and installing games on the Xbox One should wear down your harddrive abnormallt fast, but if you want som extra peace of mind on the subject I reccomend getting an external USB 3.0 drive.. a 2Tb drive
    is not expensive... when connecting it to the xb one the first you will be prompted to format it for media or games.. choose to format it for games and when prompted to you can select to have all new games intalled to the exterlal drive.. that way you can
    lighten the workload on yhe internal drive.. (all system updates will be installed to the internal drive thogh)

    Keep in mind that formating the drive completly wipes it, so don' use a dtive that you allready have content on that which ypu want or need to keep..
     
    Tronder 007, Jul 12, 2015
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  5. Andy :)
    Andy :) Guest
    I couldn't find a link to back this up but I believe the defrag is scheduled to run in background every once in a while on xbox so un-installing and installing games should make no difference than a normal PC. Hard drives these days don't wear out as such
    so it shouldn't be a problem. I do agree with Tronder above in that it's not a bad idea to get a second drive for more storage. It does need to be USB 3.0 as he said though.
     
    Andy :), Oct 31, 2018
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  6. Tronder 007 Win User

    Will uninstalling and installing games on XB1 break your hard drive?

    Hi Rythmneo.. I can't see any reason that uninstalling and installing games on the Xbox One should wear down your harddrive abnormallt fast, but if you want som extra peace of mind on the subject I reccomend getting an external USB 3.0 drive.. a 2Tb drive
    is not expensive... when connecting it to the xb one the first you will be prompted to format it for media or games.. choose to format it for games and when prompted to you can select to have all new games intalled to the exterlal drive.. that way you can
    lighten the workload on yhe internal drive.. (all system updates will be installed to the internal drive thogh)

    Keep in mind that formating the drive completly wipes it, so don' use a dtive that you allready have content on that which ypu want or need to keep..
  7. Andy :) Win User

    Will uninstalling and installing games on XB1 break your hard drive?

    I couldn't find a link to back this up but I believe the defrag is scheduled to run in background every once in a while on xbox so un-installing and installing games should make no difference than a normal PC. Hard drives these days don't wear out as such
    so it shouldn't be a problem. I do agree with Tronder above in that it's not a bad idea to get a second drive for more storage. It does need to be USB 3.0 as he said though.
  8. XBF Ezra G Win User

    Xbox External Hard Drive Won't Delete The Game

    Hi Cipher XIII,

    Thanks for your post. I understand you are experiencing an issue with uninstalling a game on your external hard drive. Have you attempted to re-format your hard drive? You may want to check your hard drive's manual on the proper steps to format it.

    Formatting will completely wipe your hard drive's data, this should correct any issues with installation and uninstallation on your external hard drive.

    I hope this helps.
  9. OblivionKeyo Win User

    Last 3 days I keep getting disconnected from xbox live

    Also could it be a bad game disk? Dark sould customer support thought that might be the problem. I have game installed to my xbox hard drive. Does anyone think that could be the problem? Should it run ok installed to hard drive? Should I uninstall it
    or uninstall it and then reinstall it to hard drive?
  10. KieranRea Win User

    final fantasy problem

    If the game is installed to the hard drive, uninstall it and then try playing the game
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