Installing Games/Apps onto D Drive through Xbox app/Windows Store

I am trying to install games and apps onto my D drive instead of C drive through the Xbox app and Windows store on Game pass.

I have set the default drive to install apps to through Windows settings

I have set the default drive through the Xbox app settings

I get a notification when going to install the game, asking which drive to install to, and instruct it to install to the D drive

Every time though, it ignores this and installs to me C drive.

If I try to move the app through settings, the "Moving" notification and progress bar appears for a split second before disappearing, with no error information, but not having moved the file.

There are some apps that are installed on my D drive, and the pattern seems to be apps that require Admin approval are the ones not install onto my D drive.

Could someone try and resolve the issue, as it's incredibly frustrating for a service that is no longer in beta.

There is an article here that talks about installing Windows Store Apps onto secondary drives. Try the steps here, and let us know if
they work for you!

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You can try the following steps to install Sea of Thieves on a different drive:

Create a symbolic link (also known as a "junctions") between the folder where Windows Store installs apps on the C drive, and a folder on the D drive. This tricks the Windows Store into thinking the app is installed on the C drive, when it's actually on the D drive.

Uninstall Sea of Thieves from the Windows Store, if it's already installed.

Open an elevated Command Prompt window (right-click the Start button and select "Command Prompt (Admin)").

Run the following command to create a symbolic link:

mklink /J "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SeaOfThieves_1.0.29.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe" "D:\SeaOfThieves"

Close the Command Prompt window and open the Windows Store app.

Reinstall Sea of Thieves and it should install to the D drive, using the symbolic link created in step 4.

This should resolve your issue and allow you to install Sea of Thieves on the D drive.

Thanks got the quick reply.

I'm on Windows 11

An addition I noticed just now is that Xbox app won't install any game.

So far I've:

-Attempted to install the game through the Minecraft launcher, waited for multiple hours, and cancelled and restated the process multiple times.

-same goes for installing through the xbox pass app

-the Microsoft store won't let me install it giving me a price to buy it and a button that takes me to the Xbox app

-attempted installing the game onto my main drive (C and onto my separate games' drive

-Reinstalled Minecraft launcher

-Reinstalled xbox app

-uninstalled the "gaming services" app as per xbox site's instructions. The reinstall phase doesn't work because the app won't install back from the Microsoft store (like with 90% of the other reviewers there for the 1,7 star reviewed app btw.)

-however in the services listing Gaming Services is shown, twice

-restarted the computer multiple times in between these

I receive the error 0x80070005 on Xbox app when trying to install.

I checked the services mentioned. The Xbox named ones were manual, but changing then to automatic did not help.

When you say you bought an internal drive, are you referring to the Xbox One console, or are you referring to your Windows 10 PC and installed games through the Xbox App or Store App?