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Most of the Xbox One Games have a size in two to three digit figure (in GBs), and if you only have a 500 GB or a 1TB hard drive, running out of space for a regular gamer is not a surprise. Adding to this, if you are into buying digital games, re-downloading the games take a toll on your bandwidth, time, and especially those big updates.

Good news is that Xbox One supports external drives which can be used for to install games and keep them there, while you still use the internal storage for downloading, and install the new games. In this post, I am going to share how you can achieve it.

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If you've been using a USB flash drive for storage on your Xbox 360 and you'd like to. Do you want to be able to play games for free on your XBox 360?

While I am using Games in this context, you can also move apps to external drives as well. It’s an uncommon scenario, but its possible, and works the same way as it works for the game.

Hardware Requirement & Initial Setup

You will need a hard drive of at least 256 GB with USB 3.0 support. I use my Western Digital hard drive, and it works fine. However, if you are picking a new one, take one with high storage space, and faster speed for the performance.

Setting up a new Hard Drive:

Plug in your drive into any of the Xbox One USB port, and it will prompt on how you intend to use it. You can use it for storing media files, like DVR game clips, etc., or you can use it for installing games. If you select gaming, it will format the hard drive as per Xbox One need, and it cannot be used for anything unless you format it. This is a screenshot of what happens when you plug a hard drive into your Xbox One. Select Format Storage Device.

When you select this option, all your data on the drive will be erased permanently. So if you have anything on the drive, make sure to back it up.

In case, you accidentally choose Use for Media, follow the steps below to convert it for games.

Press Guide button on your Xbox One controller.
Navigate to the right using the right bumper to System.
Select Settings, and navigate to System section, and select Storage.

This will list all your drives, both external, and internal.
Use the cursor keys on your controller to find the hard drive you want to use for gaming.
Once you find it, press A button on the controller to open the options.
You should see
- View Contents.
- Format for games, & apps.
- Set as Capture Location.
Select Format for games, & apps.

In the next screen, select Format Storage Device, and give a unique name to the drive.
Post this, Xbox One will prompt if you want to choose this as default storage device for games from now on. Choose Keep Current location.
You will have to re-confirm it again, and you should get a message that the drive is ready.

Transfer Xbox games to external hard drive

Now that our setup is complete let’s learn how to move the games from your internal drive to external drive.

The primary reason I suggested not to set the new external drive as default storage location was for performance. Internal drive will always be faster, and you can always use the external drive to move games which you are not playing for now. If you intend to play them once in a while, you don’t have to move them back, but always play from right there, seamlessly.

Let’s start:

Make sure you are signed in with your account.
Press the Guide button, and open My games & apps.
Go to the game you want to move using cursor keys on the controller.
Press the Menu button on the controller. Then select Manage Game.

Surprisingly, the next screen offers two options.
- Move All: This will copy all related content over to the external hard drive.
- Copy All: This will keep a copy on both internal hard drive and external drive.
Select Move All.
Confirm the drive on the next screen.

Once done, you will see your drive listed with the name you gave it. It will list the game you moved here and a progress bar. This will give you a fair idea of how much time it might take for the game to be moved. The bigger the game is, the more time it will take.

That said there are some important things you should know:

You can cancel the transfer anytime, and your games will still work. There is an option to pause it as well.
The reason why there is a copy option is that if you are planning to transfer the games to a new console or another one, you will need to have a copy left on your primary console.
Lastly, you can perform multiple move or copy. The next game will be added to the queue. You can see it under “Queue” section in My apps & games.

To transfer the game back to internal storage, follow the same steps, and this time choose internal storage instead of external storage.

How to bulk transfer Apps and Games on Xbox One

Microsoft has built an option for bulk transfer for those who have too many games to move to an external drive or internal storage. Its called as Transfer, and you can move both apps, and games using this.

Microsoft recently added the ability to transfer items between drives in bulk, to ease the process during big transitions. This should be especially helpful for those upgrading to the Xbox One X this fall, allowing large games (and their 4K updates) to be transferred with ease.

Go to Settings > System > Storage, and open it.
Navigate to the drive from which you want to bulk transfer.
Press A on the controller for the menu.
Select Transfer.

This screen offers
- Option to select the destination if you have multiple external drives.
- Select All or select ones you want.
- Sort by name or last used or last update or by size.

Next select Move Selected.
This will initiate the transfer, and you should be able to see them in Queue.

This covers up all the options for transferring, moving, and copying files from Xbox One to internal storage, and back to internet storage. How many games you have on your console? Do you use an external drive? How are you managing things when storage falls short? Let us know in the comments.

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Microsoft's Xbox 360 allows users to go online through Xbox Live to play online with other gamers from around the world and also download videos, music, video games, and system updates. A recent update allows users to use USB memory devices to save Xbox 360 content, such as Xbox 360 video games. By configuring a USB memory device, a user can download an Xbox 360 video game from the Xbox Live Marketplace for $19.99 or $29.99, and save it to the USB memory device to play on their system, or any other Xbox 360.

Configure Your USB Storage Device

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Plug in your USB storage device into one of the USB ports on your Xbox 360 console, and turn on your Xbox 360.

Go to the 'My Xbox' tab, then scroll over and select the System Settings window.

Select the 'Memory' option.

Select the 'USB Storage Device' option.

Select the 'Configure Now' option, and confirm that you want to erase any existing data on the device. You can also select the 'Customize' option and move the slider for Reserved Storage to select the amount of storage space on the USB storage device. The device will configure, and you will be able to use it as an Xbox 360 storage device.

Downloading and Playing Xbox 360 Games

Sign into Xbox Live with your gamertag by pushing the Guide button on your Xbox 360 controller, and selecting the 'Sign In' option.

Scroll left to the Marketplace tab on the Guide window, and select the 'Game Marketplace' option, then the 'Games on Demand' option.

Scroll down to 'All Games on Demand,' and select the 'Browse Through 360 Games' window.

Select an Xbox 360 video game to purchase and download, then select the 'Change Storage Device' option.

Select the USB memory device.

Select the 'Confirm Purchase' option. The video game will begin to download to your USB memory device, and your Xbox Live account will be billed for the game. Once the game is downloaded, you can access it through your USB memory device.

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