How to use an external hard drive with Xbox One
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- Paul Acevedo sets up an external hard drive on Xbox One. Full guide: www.windowscent... Subscribe to our TH-cam channel: www.youtube.co...
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" I'm going to use this to strangle myself later". This guy is pretty funny.
yeah i kekd
Thumbs Up as soon as he said that.
Thanks for the video, made me feel good and made it simple to use. I plugged my hard drive in when the system was powered off and restarted the xbox one. It recognized the drive as a media server. I had to go into settings and manage storage to make it available for game and apps but the process was quick and easy.
Hi Here, I JUST GOT MY FIRST EVER XBOX ONE LAST WEEK AND I AM RUNNING OUT OF SPACE ALREADY. YOU SHOWED ME THE PERFACT WAY TO OVER COME THIS HEADACHE.Many thanks and god bless you.
Haha I had the same problem! Lol
great video. It's Christmas Day and we can't play our new games without deleting our old games. This is a life saver of a video. Thanks!!
I needed help with my Seagate 5tb Expansion and this helped my so much!!! Thank you!
Thank you so much I got the WM My Passport Ultra 2TB. This video helped me make a decision on what to buy and how to install it! Thanks
"I'll use that to strangle myself later.... not really"
I died
Thanks for the vid just got mines today and hooked it up working smoothly!!!
"I'll use that to strangle myself later" 😂😂😂😂😂LMFAO
Luke C. He sounds so sad and then he made that joke and I was like yep he's definitely sad
his wristbands tipped off the sadness for me...
alex wright 😂😭😭 haha
Hahahahaha holy shit. One of the best surprise funny sad one liners all time
had to rewind after I heard you say "I'll use that to strangle myself later" lmao. I was like wait, what
Thank you so much! I have 15 games and already my XB1 is out of storage. I am buying a 1 terabyte hard drive tomorrow.
The installing 1001 spikes cut is classy i like it
This is so nice I had gotten the quantum break white xbox one bundle that had 500 gb storage. I could only use about 300 of that. I am so picking up a external drive and I am pretty glad I went with xbox one so that I can do this.
I've got 2 one network Mybook and a hard wired my book. I never even thought about doing this. The hard wired WD still has almost all of the 2 terabites left on it. Thank you so much.
+Bryce Hollis Bryce, can you play games off the external hard drive or do you have to have them on the internal drive to play them?
+Jesus Saves you can play them directly off the external.
Bryce Hollis sweet! Any lag ?
Nope.
+damagecase13 What do you mean?
Thanks its nice to know I don't exactly need a specific hard drive but I still kinda do. This was useful
Still pertinent 2 years later. Thank you.
Those sweat bands are dope!
+GreenWay Carpet Cleaning Thanks man!
"I'll use this plastic to strangle myself later. Not really." Haha! Helpful vid tho. I'm already looking into the storage problem before buying either console.
U have no idea how much u just helped me
Benjamin Padrick Glad to be of service!
I saw that a few of the games that you had yet to install, I love. For example, Castle Storm, Minecraft, Crimson Dragon, Chariot, etc.
Thanks man this video helped a lot. I can't believe all I was doing was forgetting to plug the hard drive into an outlet haha
thank you soooo much.. just put my Seagate 3tb in!! I play loads of games and this is freaking great! I'm ecstatic!
Thanks for making this been look for a clear video on this even if it is easy!
Glad you liked it! :)
Smug nod to myself when you said Seagate are highly rated, mine arrived today 😁
FYI: It didn't work for me until I plugged it into the USB port on the back of the console. When I first tried the side USB port, it would not work at all. Hope this helps others. Good luck folks! Thanks for the helpful video! Another FYI: I have the WD Mybook 5TB.
Yeah, im sure the one on the back wasnt a Usb3
+John Schnue actually all 3 are USB 3.0
Dude you're the best this honestly helped me a lot and now I get how to use it because when I disconnected I was lost I thought I broke the thing but now I realize when you disconnected it acts like portable and when I first time connected it helped me but everytime I disconnected I have to do it manually but you're video helpd me to understand thank you so much 👌
I have the same external hard drive. Thanks for the vid and merry xmas and a happy new year.
Thanks man, I got the 3tb and it worked great!
Thanks for the tutorial very helpful!!
The old dashboard :O
I miss that dashboard. But I especially miss the Xbox 360 dashboard
Kyle Spadaro the old old xbox 360 one was amazing. or maybe that's just my nostalgia speaking
Yeah I was talking about the blades dashboard (2005-2008) which was absolutely amazing. The current 360 dashboard sucks
Thanks! This help me decide what to get! Now I'll have more room thanks to your aid of helping hand!
Thanks for the detailed information and guide!
Fortunately, you no longer have to move the games one at a time. When you go to Manage Storage you can select some or all of your games to copy or move to your external drive.
helpful, even though it was simple to begin with, it was good to have a thorough vid for conformation.
Hey man thanks alot for helping me out, I had no space and I didn't know how to do all this stuff. :D
Thanks for this! I opened a external 2tb hd and put that in my ps4 and then put the old 500g back in the casing and now use that on the xbox then
I didn't get the My Book, I got the SeaGate. But thanks for the video! And Merry Christmas!
Thank you so much for the vid, the time and effort it took to make it. I'm moving all my games over now lol! 4tb yeah baby! Soooo sweet! Thx again, THE RAB1D DOG.. XBL
I wish there was a guide like this for the Playstation 4.
I'd rent out the spare room in my house but it's full of Kinect, Play & Charge and now an external HDD. As if the system wasn't large enough already. The only portable X1 option is Gaems Vanguard or Xbook mods. I wish they'd launch a slim and Hori comes out with an attachable HD screen like it did for the PS4.
+Matt Grant If you need a portable screen, the GAEMS Vanguard sells for $350-400 on Amazon and acts as a case for the Xbox One to boot.
What happens if I unplug the hard drive from the console and turn it on again?
SwedishNerfNerdFilms my same question
Nothing, it will detect as the Xbox storage device.
Just curious if moving all data, moves the save file as well? Or is your save data connected to your profile. I don't have Gold, so using the cloud is not an option at the moment. Backing up all my saves is very important. and want to be sure I won't loose all my game progress. So many hours lost. Just want to make sure I do every right in backing up everything.
Great video just got one for my Xbox one Elite
I already did this like a year or 2 ago. Got me this little 2tb external hard drive. I kinda wish I got this one because it makes your games run wayyyyyy faster. It is pretty awesome but I wanted to have enough money left over to buy a new controller. The left stick on my xbox one controller that came with the system was super unresponsive. I only had the thing for 6 friggin months. I feel like I should've waited and got this one though. Oh well I ain't spending a hundred bucks for faster load times, I already got my external harddrive. I have a My Passport pro. It works pretty good and does make my games run smoother. It is also pewnie compared to this one and runs soley on power from the system without the need of plugging into the wall.
I have the same hard drive and I had already formatted it for my pc so I had to delete all of my files off of it and go to my settings, go to storage, and select the hard drive and press format. It would not give me a notification to format it but it gave me the option to open media player and look at the items I had in it.
Great Video. Detailed instruction. Thanks for the coverage.
does this work for just digital games or does thus work with games i own the physical copy of too or should i keep those games on my internal drive?
Came here to see what I was doing wrong because I've went through 4 different external hard drives and they keep on becoming unrecognizable on my S. I'm starting to think that it's when the power goes out and it doesn't shutoff correctly. I say this because when the power goes out on my PS4 PRO when I boot it up after a power outage it comes up to rebuild the database and after it does that it comes up with the fact that the external storage device was incorrectly shutdown and gives you the option to repair the hard drive and every time it's happened it always works perfectly right after.
Does the xbox run faster if there is less data on the console itself, and more on the external?
Will moving a game to an external drive also move the saved game data too?
THANKS YOU, you made it easy.
+Dan Isner Glad it helped!
Thank you this helped out so much
Very helpful and straight forward
Thank you very much, this video is very helpful and useful, Merry Christmas!!! 🎁🎄
We plugged ours into the console and the console couldnt read it on multiple occassions, the console is brand new but the external Drive is not, do we possibly have a reading problem or what is going on. It cant detect it.
Great video!!!
Can you move more than one game at a time? It would be great if you could select the games you want to move. Just choose the games and let it go to town.
Thank you! As far as I know, you can only move one game at a time. It's a bit of a hassle, but I got them all moved over eventually.
Paul Acevedo This isn't your video though...?
HYDrOxSKRiLL3X (BGITW)
Who do you think shot the thing?
Paul Acevedo is this your second account or?
HYDrOxSKRiLL3X (BGITW)
Sort of. Windows Central is a site run by a company, and I'm an individual who works for the company. I usually respond with my personal account so that I can get email notification of replies.
Do I have to move every game from the internal storage to the external one or can I just leave the games on the internal hard drive there and put the new games I will download on the future in the external one.
No you don't have to
Michael Taylor why not?
Such an awesome video, so helpful! Thank you
+MrEricturney Glad you liked it! :)
lol he must be a John Cena Fan with those Wrist bands on.
Thankyou for the help I only had 30 gigabytes now I know how to get more
Awesome video! Thanks. Say that your WD HDD decides to crash one day. Can you retrieve all your lost games via "read to install" from your xbox?
Cody Smith Yes, you can always reinstall them later. And save files are backed up on the cloud as well.
Really great videos man!
It pisses me off this feature isn't on PS4 yet
Anthony Mercado That's the big problem with ps4 sure it's easy to swap the drive but all the waiting and waiting and waiting for tranfers and the o.s to reload is total bullshit should be notching at sony not complimenting them on that bullshit.
Rikardo González Treviño Already filled up 1tb then 2tb just said fuck it and got 4tb. 2tb don't last as long as you think.
Good video. Thank you.
white xone looks beast
cool sweat bands. Was wondering if the USB 3.0 can run off its own power or do you need the power cord? I have a 1 tb usb 3.0 that gets its power from the usb. 1 less cord to worry about...
thank you for your help
@jsrrrmg The SSD would be limited to the USB 3.0's speed, it depends
*****
That kind of comment is not welcome here. Deleting.
3 things?
I persume that will speed the xbox one up, if the internal has 100%?
& what if the external device breaks?
Will it still have all your details link to xbox live? So you just have to go through the long re downloading stage again
Which i persume again, but you never know umtil you ask for sure
+jjohnjJP Games load slightly faster from the external drive, as explained in the video. If the external drive breaks, you'll need to replace it. Your saves are backed up in the cloud so you can recover them that way. Your Xbox Live account info is stored on the system itself, not the external drive.
I bought a Seagate Backup Plus Portable 5TB External Hard Drive - Black at Target.
My external hard drive keep cutting on while the console is off. I have it set in settings to turn off while the system is off. It sounds like it's scanning and turns on and off on its own. My Western Digital did that and eventually stopped working. This one is Seagate, 2 tb. I don't want to have problems with this new drive, should I do something else or is the drive suppose to come on and off while console is off? It has its own power as well, plugs into wall. Thanks for any advice you guys could give.
2:49 you move the external HDD while on ! you can damage your HD.
Thanks for the info!
I have this same WD Mybook, but it literally just died on me. Idk if it's the power source that is failing me or if it is the entire hard drive. When I plug it into the wall nothing happens but once I plug it into the wall the light shines for a bit, but the fan does not whir and then it goes dead without the xbox even recognizing it.
I got the Seagate 5TB for $120 and it's freaking great
The USB cord is the New standard for USB 3 and you could use a generic power adapter instead of the standard.
Yeah, I really meant it's not a traditional USB 1/2 cord. Generic AC adapters do work but I'm not crazy about them.
excellent video
Thank you, this was very helpful.
Is it not possible to use the my passport drives from WD? The mini ones that come in for terabytes as well, but they do not require power supply? Thinking of picking one up is it necessary to get ones with the power supply?
Paul - I have the same external drive but in the 2tb size. My issue is that it never seems to shut down when the xbox one is off. The lights are a slow steady pulse even when off. I did a workaround and added a switch between the outlet and the external drive so that I have to manually turn it off and on. Question is do you have the same thing happen, I assume it's not how it's supposed to work?
How long does it take the Xbox One to recognize the external drive? Mine is just blinking? Nothing seems to be happening.
same with mine
+Donovan Howard same here
+Donovan Howard mine FINALLY recognized it after about 45 minutes. Good luck!
Just got one and the Xbox initially recognised it but wouldn't let me use the controller to select the format option, so I reset everything and now it won't pick up the My book at ALL???? I am fuming!!!!
+Mac TV Go to storage in the settings menu. Then select the hard drive you wanna format for games and apps.
Nice wristbands, dude! :D
really helpful thanks
"...on my other Xbox One"
That just echoed in my head the whole time I was watching. I don't even have one, uno, een, unum yet!!
+Davy Aye Gotta save up!
I actually added the exact same drive to my system. It works great, except it seems to stay on, despite me selecting "power off external hd with system"? Does your drive go off (no blinking white light) when you out your Xbox one to sleep?
If I use for my Xbox games. I can't download movies to it for when I travel ??? I guess what I'm asking is can I use for both uses and just unplug and go whenever for movies or xbox? Please reply
Why we don't get the mentioned storage like in this case 3.6/4TB, where those 400GB gone?
Great video. So, I have one questions. How reliable is adding an external USB 3.0 HDD to an Xbox One console? I ask this because I read that doing this on a PC (for example, to install and run Steam games), the load startup times are actually longer than the local HDD. I don't own an XOne console, but I'm thinking on getting one.
+Raul T Games install and run faster from external drives on Xbox One than internal, as explained in the video. On PC there are a variety of factors such as the speed of your internal and external drives, etc.
Quick question if you game share with someone on another Xbox and you move games from the internal hard drive to the external will it disable that game to be shared with the other person?
Great tutorial!
What is your opinion on external drives standing upright instead of flat like the WD cloud 4TB
i am looking for a external hard drive for my xbox one..but not sure which to get between the seagate or WD..
I'm wanting to watch movies on my xbox one , i already have it formated to 360 (fat32) , my question is what format does it have to be in to order it to read as an external hard drive and not a internal ?
great vid!can you use any hd with it as long as its usb3.0
If I put the preview app on another hard drive any external hard drive, will I still be able to use it? I'm thinking about getting this or the seagate
how can I find out if my USB cords are USB 3? can these hdd be reformatted to use on pc?
Great help thanks fella
Got this very same hard drive have it installed on my Xbox one it's set for games & apps but when I try and move an individual game over its asking to move all, copy all, uninstall all, so if I click move all the next screen says I have to "finish installing before moving or copy", all games are fully installed on my memory ????
I have a question...
I'm not exactly how old our My Book is, but I do know that it's fairly new. It worked for I want to say about a month or so, but now it doesn't. It's plugged into the Xbox and everything but it doesn't show up as an external drive in the storage anymore... suggestions?