Xbox app for PC uninstalling my games from my external HDD on it's own (Windows 11)

Observable Universe · Feb 23, 2022

Anyone please explain to me how a program made for games can uninstall it's own games with out permission.

I keep having the same problem the last couple weeks first I'm installing a game from the app and a couple days later it disappear on its own and still taking space in my external HDD. I searched the Windowsapp folder in my external disk and there is nothing from the games I installed, I used repair and reset the new featured of windows 11 did nothing I tried uninstalling Xbox app and re-installing it didn't work either. I also tried deleting the microsoft store's cache since they are linked for some reason and also didn't work. If anyone knows something about this please help because it doesn't have an error code for that the app and I don't even know what kind of bug it's able to delete thing on its own.(sorry for my poor English not my native language)

:)

XBF - Drew

Hello Observable Universe,

Thank you for coming to the Xbox forums.

Can you report this as a problem on Windows 10 using the command WINKEY + F? Reporting experiences like this can help Team Xbox with the investigation.

Best regards,

XBF Drew

StodgyLicense32

I'm using Windows 11. I tried uninstalling Naraka and restart my PC, but I still have the same problem with the Xbox app. All of my games are installed on D.

Bastien De Macedo

Hello .

I have multiples apps like kaspersky , glasswire , fraps , gaomon tablet , some 3d stuff and the rest are games on my external HDD . The first time i installed fh5 on my external storage and some times it also crashes and i got the bandwidth warning , it was of course the HDD speed and not my CPU ressources , i got an 10th gen i5 , after he uninstalled himself i reinstalled it but on my C: NVME 512gb SSD with windows . I'm on windows 11 here a picture of my settings (it's in french because i'm ) and i install forza from the xbox app and not from the microsoft store . I would like to copy the entire game in case something goes bad but the executable won't let me do this and i think the MS store is so protected that i could not even launch it .

[mod removed - personal information]

thesavageboiii

My laptop has an SSD and an HDD, would the HDD work instead of the external hard drive? Windows 11 is running on the SSD not HDD.

steeledwand7664

Were they on an external HDD or were they on the internal HDD of the console?

If external are all of the games that were on the external missing? If so try unplugging the external HDD from the console and then plugging it back in. If that does not work try plugging it into another USB port on the console.

If internal HDD then someone would have had to go on the console and request to uninstall the game from the console and you would need to just go into my games and apps and redownload and install. Or if it is a disc game you would need to put the disc back
in and reinstall.

Xbox app for PC uninstalling my games from my external HDD on it's own (Windows 11)