Xbox One S Watch Movies From External Hard Drive

Plug your hard drive into one of the free usb ports on your xbox one console.

Xbox one s watch movies from external hard drive. Interestingly xbox enables players to use and add on an external hard drive. You just have to format the drive into ntfs fat or fat32. The hdd can be used for unused files however when correctly formatted the external drive can also be used to play games directly from it.

An on screen pop up will display. Tech can t play movies off my external hard drive on xbox one. This thread is archived.

If you have a windows pc your usb drive will work on your xbox one as long as your windows pc can read it. By using the external hard drive on xbox one all prior data is erased. Is there something i have to do.

This can be done whether your console is on or powered off. Here is a short video to remind you guys that now the xbox one is capable of playing videos music photos from a usb drive or a connected hard drive. Never unplug an external hard drive from your xbox one when the xbox is on.

How do i make this work. However eurogamer concluded that there wasn t much benefit in using one with your xbox one. However if you want to use an external device for games then it has to be a usb 3 0 and a minimum of 256gb.

If you have a usb flash drive or external drive you can use it to play videos on the xbox one. I have a 1tb seagate external hard drive with a bunch of movies on it. The xbox one supports usb 1 usb 2 and usb 3 drives.