Error 0x80070057 blocks install to Xbox game pass (PC)

Hi, Sally_344,

I hope you are doing well today. Welcome to the Xbox Community. Thank you for reaching out to Xbox Forums. I see that you are encountering error 0x80070057, blocking installs of games on the PC game pass app. I am happy to help and see if we can resolve this issue. Let me provide a couple of suggestions and see if they help.

1. Have you attempted to install the games on your Primary drive to see if the issue still persists?
   
2. Have you reformatted the drive to NTFS and see if that fixes the problem?
   
3. Could you please click on the link and try the SFC scan. Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files. If some Windows functions aren't working or Windows crashes, use the System File Checker to scan Windows and restore your files. Sometimes corrupted files can cause issues.
   

Let's try this and see if this resolves your problem, and then we can look at other suggestions.

I hope these suggestions help! If this answers your question, please mark the thread as “Answered.”

Thanks, I have successfully installed to C:\ (main hard drive) instead of E:\ (SSD).

I had been swapping between file install locations before, that may have confused the installer.

I am able to install games on Game Pass for PC, but if i have uninstalled them except for ones I've actually bought I will get Error Code: 0x80070057. Searching this error for Game Pass has resulted in stuff saying it has to do with disk space, I have
way more than enough space for any game and I even tried to put it on another drive still the same error.

Hi,

Pretty much all the error codes PC Game pass flags up are actually Windows errors. The Game Pass app is just an extension of the Windows Store - it doesn't even need to be running once a game is installed.

I asked about storage, as error 0x80070057 relates to low storage. But clearly, this isn't the problem here.

Can you give the advice
I suggested on this forum post a try please?

Hi,

The Xbox App isn't a stand alone downloading app like for example, Steam or GoG. The Xbox App is simply a portal to allow you to download Game Pass games. The downloading is actually completed via the Windows Store.

Since Xbox App uses the Windows Store, error code 0x80070057 is actually a Windows 10 error code. There are many guides on the net to potentially fix this error, just google 'Windows error 0x80070057 like this
one

Note: You should not need to install any free applications on any of these sites.
If you do, you do so at your own risk.

Likewise, error code 0x80070005 is also a Windows 10 error often referred to as an 'access denied' error. If you get this error when trying to change where default applications are installed, it typically means there is already a folder on the drive from
a previous PC or Windows installation.

Did you take any of these drives from a previous PC or have you recently re-installed Windows 10 from scratch?

All Windows 10 Applications install to a hidden folder called WindowsApps. On the C:\ drive, WindowsApps is located in a hidden folder in C:\Program Files.
Do not attempt to modify this folder. On other drives the WindowsApps folder will be located in the Root directory. So on say F:\ drive it would be F:\WindowsApps.

Do you already have a WindowsApps folder in your F:\ drive?