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If you’re a hardcore gamer, there are probably not too many things more important to you than to have your most glorious gaming moments conveniently immortalized in the form of a cool video (or a really blurry screenshot) in a folder somewhere. It’s your own personal hall of fame. TheXbox’sbuilt-in game capture feature, God bless its sole, goes a long way in making this happen.
The problem, however, happens when you live so intensely that your console literally cannot hold the memories in. Now, this is where we use a little bit of science - we move the data to an external device to relieve some of that pressure from our console. Let’s take a look at how we can make that happen, shall we?
Formatting Your External Drive
Before we get into the nitty-gritty of it,we’re going to make sure our drives are all nice and formatted,good to go (yes, even if it is a new one). Here’s how:
Setting Up Your External Drive
Alright, so once you have permanently Memento’d your external hard drive for your evil plans, you’llwanna set up your Xbox to save all of its new game captures directly to it.This is going to be super handy in preventing your internal storage from filling up with new stuff. Here’s what you will need to do:
Adjusting Capture Preferences
Selecting the Capture Location
By the way, if you’re here because you’re panicking about the whole ‘Xbox is going to delete all our data’ thing - you have nothing to worry about. Xbox has explicitly stated that only the data saved on the Xbox network (i.e., whatever’s on the cloud) will be affected. And even that applies to data that is 90 days or older. The deletion will happen on May 30.
Anyway, since your cloud captures are saved to internal storage as well, all you really need to do is follow the process below, and you should be good to go!
Moving Existing Captures
Yes, yes, the section before this wasn’t really what you were looking for, and you can’t wait to get to the actual thing. Well, here it is.In order to move the game captures that are already stored on the Xbox’s internal hard drive, you’ll have to transfer them manually.Follow these steps for it:
Initiating the Transfer
Tips and Tricks
Now that you’re done with the move, here are a couple of tips you may wanna follow if you want to keep that Xbox running nice and dandy.
FAQs
Can I use any external hard drive with my Xbox?
Technically speaking, yes, you can because most of them are compatible with the Xbox. However, we highly recommend going for a USB 3.0 drive that has at least 256GB of storage on it. This is going to ensure that you have plenty of space for all your captures. A 2.0 drive can work, too, but they are generally slower when it comes to transfer speeds, and well, no one wants that.
Can I access my game captures on my external hard drive from other devices?
Yes, you can connect your external hard drive to other devices like your PC or laptop to access, view, and edit your game captures.
Can I move game captures from my external hard drive back to my Xbox’s internal storage?
Yes, you can move your game captures back to your Xbox’s internal storage if you want. All you need to do is follow the same steps we discussed above; only this time, you will want to select your Xbox’s internal storage as the destination instead.
