My MSFS2020 is downloaded to a hard drive, and a new update was set to download to the...

hi, I'm just up dating my post about the external hard drive., as found a new issue. It seems that when I set the Power and Startup set to "Instant On", and the setting "When Xbox is off turn off storage", is unchecked, and I'm using the external hard drive
at the main download hard drive. When I'm downloading updates, games or DLC it seems to NOT want to work automatically in sleep mode when I shut the Xbox off. Although the power light stays on the power supply, and still connected to network, as I can see
the light on my switcher, i notice the external hard drive power is off. and nothing is getting downloaded. updates and DLC do not get downloaded to the external hard drive in instant on mode? it seems I have to put it back into energy saving mode before
I start downloading, and let the Xbox stay on the whole time. is there another setting that I missing to fix this?

They should download to where your games & apps are then.

The system wont download a game update to a hard drive if the game isn't on that hard drive.

Have a look at your storage devices in the console settings just to make sure no games or apps are stored on the internal drive & your external drive is set to default for downloading games & apps.

I have had this problem for weeks since updating my computer to Windows 11. Tried everything including a support ticket to flightsimulator.zenbook.
Even reinstalling MSFS 2020 didn't work.
I was trying to install the entire game on a separate hard drive F:\Games.

What finally worked was to install it in the default location, C:\XBoxGames. That got me past the error of not being able to sign into XBox Live.
Then when it starts downloading the data, pause and change the data path to the non-system drive ie: F:\Games\MSFS2020\packages\localcache.

I actually exited as soon as it got to the data download. Moved all my Community and Official data from the old install (which I had backed up) to the new directory and restarted the game.
It found all my previous data and only downloaded updates.

All my settings, controller setup and flight log were there as well. It probably got those from XBox.live

I now have a new xbox series x that can download msfs2020 and it works perfectly fine with my hotas.

Thanks for clarifying that!

If you head to Settings>System>Storage on the console, and make sure that the external hard drive is set as the default download location for the console, do you see any difference if you try the update again after that?

If you're still seeing trouble with the external set as the default download location, try transferring some of the content installed on the internal drive to the external drive to make space for the updates on the internal drive, and let us know if you're
able to access GTA online with the update installed to the internal drive.

I don't believe that there's anyway for me to set the external hard drive as the default. I've tried transferring content over to make room but as my Xbox is only 4GB I'm still struggling to download it. I ordered an internal hard drive, as I read that realistically
that should contribute to increasing my internal drive space, should this solve the issue??