I hate these blasted fancy games. I just want to play. I don’t want to sit here for 20 minutes while you download all this crap that is not on the disc.

So I treated myself to Madden 21 and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1&2 remaster and spent all of $20!!
Mama and the boys are out and about so I figured I’d play some Tony Hawk!!!
Nope, nope, and nope!!! Not enough drive space. Well crap deleted some stuff and now I sit here talking with you all while this crap downloads.

So I guess I need to add more hard drive space. What is the easiest/best way to do that!

1) Best option, but more expensive: Purchase an official Xbox Seagate Storage Expansion Card: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/acc...agate-expansion-card. This is a seamless add-on expansion to your onboard drive storage, with no restrictions. It's ~$200 for 1TB, which would triple your existing 512GB internal storage.

2) Not as good option, but cheaper: Add a USB external hard drive. The downside is you can only store and run older (Xbox One, Xbox 360) games from the external USB drive, but if that's a large chunk of your current internal hard drive usage, this lets you then save your internal drive space for newer (Series S/X) games that require it. You're looking at ~$70 for a 1TB USB 3.0 external SSD.

I have a One S it seems like that first option only works with the Series S/X

Ah, you're exactly right. I misread your title and was operating under the belief you have a Xbox Series S. (I mean, Microsoft couldn't have been any more confusing with their One S/One X/Series S/Series X crap if they tried.)

In that case, Option #2 will work fine for you and any of your Xbox One games.


I upgraded from the One S to the Series X a few months ago, and actually just sold my old One S to a neighbor who had posted to the neighborhood group looking for a nice used one to give to her sons for Christmas. I had it in the guest room for use as a streaming center, but there's not really a need for that, and I figured they'd get a lot more use out of it. I tossed them all my kid-appropriate games too.

If an SSD is not required, here's a 5TB external for $99.

https://a.co/d/4cDFwQT

As the boys mentioned above, it’s super easy. Just grab an external drive (it does not have to be Xbox branded) like the one Buc Fan linked and plug it into one of the usb ports, tuck it behind the Xbox and forget it’s there. It may pop up a window on screen after plugging it in the first time asking to format the drive, if so select that option and that should be it. You are able to tell the system whether to always install to the external by default if you prefer. You can change that choice at anytime. After that you can go to settings>storage anytime and you can move or copy games back and forth to either internal or external, delete them, reinstall them.

I found loading times on the external drive were actually slightly faster than the 5400rpm spindle drive in the machine and the limits they put on it, so I moved the couple games I play most often to it. On a side note, my machine gave up the ghost and I actually just grabbed a new Xbox series S on Friday and boy was that $230 well spent.

Right there with you on the fancy games. My son was trying to show me how to play a game and kept putting my in matches with other people. I don’t know a single thing about it and I’m certainly not going to by getting killed every 5 seconds.

There’s gotta be a tutorial mode, but we couldn’t find it.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Right there with you on the fancy games. My son was trying to show me how to play a game and kept putting my in matches with other people. I don’t know a single thing about it and I’m certainly not going to by getting killed every 5 seconds.

There’s gotta be a tutorial mode, but we couldn’t find it.

Nearly all multiplayer games have either single player or tutorial modes where you can learn the basics of the controls and gameplay before getting into competitive multiplayer against other live people.

But some of it is just physical ability (reaction speed, hand/eye coordination, etc.) that you either have or you don't.

Also factoring into it is that most multiplayer games have what's called "skill based matchmaking" where the game's servers learn how well/poorly you play, and behind the scenes matches you up with other people of the same skill level to make things more even.

So if your son is good at the game, and you jump into the game under his profile knowing nothing about how to play, you end up with the gross mismatch of a complete newbie being matched by the system with other players who are good at the game like your son. Whereas if you went in as a complete newbie under your own profile, you'd end up getting paired up with other complete newbies and it would be a bit more even.

I used an external USB hard drive on my One X. It was the WD version about the size of an Uno card pack that did not require external power. Easystore may have been the name.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Nearly all multiplayer games have either single player or tutorial modes where you can learn the basics of the controls and gameplay before getting into competitive multiplayer against other live people.

But some of it is just physical ability (reaction speed, hand/eye coordination, etc.) that you either have or you don't.

Also factoring into it is that most multiplayer games have what's called "skill based matchmaking" where the game's servers learn how well/poorly you play, and behind the scenes matches you up with other people of the same skill level to make things more even.

So if your son is good at the game, and you jump into the game under his profile knowing nothing about how to play, you end up with the gross mismatch of a complete newbie being matched by the system with other players who are good at the game like your son. Whereas if you went in as a complete newbie under your own profile, you'd end up getting paired up with other complete newbies and it would be a bit more even.

It was none of that. It was exactly what Black mentioned in his first post about the fancy games. After a 53GB download, you get a shit menu system and a multiplayer sand box not the actual game.

To get the actual game, you need to look at the box the DVD came in to verify you bought the right thing. It says Call of Duty Modern Warfare II Cross-Gen Edition. The back of the box has three pictures: Campaign, Multiplayer, Special Ops. Seems like we bought the game and not some sort of expansion. Now you back to the shit menu system, scroll down towards the bottom and find the three items that were pictured on the box. They aren’t installed, so after another 50GB download, we now have the game.

Campaign has multiple skill levels including recruit which tells you what buttons do what as you are playing.

Black is also right about storage. One game takes over 100GB. It does look nice on a 4K screen though.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
It was none of that.

Sounds like it was some of that... That Campaign mode that you eventually found is the single-player mode that you can use to learn the basics of how the controls work, before you are ready to jump into competitive multiplayer.

Sounds like you probably tried to dive straight into Warzone, which is a very specific type of competitive Call of Duty multiplayer that's almost a separate game from the standard Call of Duty.

OK, it was the first paragraph of your post which is a repeat of what I posted in the first place.

The issue was none of the rest of what you mentioned. Not my hand eye coordination, not that my son’s skill level is better, not that I was being mismatched, etc.

The issue was in fact the fancy game that only automatically installs the Warzone thing and nothing else. It gives/gave no indication that anything else needed to be or should be installed.

I might as well call out Microsoft on their Xbox series X interface as well. I thought the Xbox 360 was clunky. There’s like 10 steps just to turn the thing off. I figured out Sony’s PS5 fairly quickly, but the Xbox interface is a mess. I just want to pop a game in and play.

It’s like the difference between the old gas pumps with the dials for price and gallons. You took the nozzle out, flipped the handle, and started pumping gas. When you were done, you flipped the lever and replaced the nozzle. Now, you have to do that plus say whether or not you want a car wash, a receipt, hear the latest specials, enter your member number, sign up for a membership,, etc. Then, when you hit some preset artificially low dollar amount, you get to do it all over again so you can finish filling your tank. I just want to fuel and go.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
There’s like 10 steps just to turn the thing off.

There's either 1 step, or 2 steps, depending on how you want to do it.

1) Hold down the Xbox logo button at the top center of the controller for a few seconds.



2) Once the onscreen menu pops up, use the left stick to select "Turn Off Console", and push A.



Or

1) Push the Xbox logo power button on the front of the Xbox.




Then to turn the Xbox back on, you do the same, either manually pushing the Xbox logo power button on the front of the console, or holding down the Xbox logo button at the top center of the controller for a few seconds to trigger the console to start up.

Not sure the One S can take advantage of an SSD drive.

Get at least a 2TB or larger USB drive. The XBO load times are their own, unfortunately.

I added a 2TB to my black XBO and 1TB to the Series X.

You can add more later or bigger.

Keep active games on the console, rest stored in the ext drive.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
1) Best option, but more expensive: Purchase an official Xbox Seagate Storage Expansion Card: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/acc...agate-expansion-card. This is a seamless add-on expansion to your onboard drive storage, with no restrictions. It's ~$200 for 1TB, which would triple your existing 512GB internal storage.

2) Not as good option, but cheaper: Add a USB external hard drive. The downside is you can only store and run older (Xbox One, Xbox 360) games from the external USB drive, but if that's a large chunk of your current internal hard drive usage, this lets you then save your internal drive space for newer (Series S/X) games that require it. You're looking at ~$70 for a 1TB USB 3.0 external SSD.

This... I have an Xbox One X with a Seagate 8TB external drive. I currently have 75 games on it and am only at 30% full

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate...s%2C220&sr=8-14&th=1


For the Series X, the integrated SSD are great but are crazy expensive right now.

So I bought a Crucial 1TB SSD and stuck it in a USB enclosure and plugged it into the XBOX.
The light on the drive goes flashy flash but the XBOX does not seem to recognize it.
I go to storage devices and it only shows my internal storage or 11.4GB free of 365GB

https://support.xbox.com/en-US...ect-external-storage

Try those steps yet?

Also, I think it has to be formatted to FAT32

The Xbox system page says if you want to load apps, video, and pics it needs to be formatted to NTFS.
If you want to load games to it it needs to be formatted to Xbox.

I hooked it up to the computer and formatted it to NTFS and it was recognized by my PC. I plugged it into the Xbox and it does not recognize it.

Have no idea how to format it to Xbox.

Is the USB enclosure USB 3.0?