XBOX App not detecting D or E drive.

BarjinderMatharoo · Nov 12, 2023

I cannot select the D or E drive in the XBOX App. When I select "Not seeing your drives?"

It shows me the following errors:

The address is invalid. I even tried creating the XBOX folder in the D drive and still its not working,

Some help would be appreciated.

:)

KhajiBower34

Hello BarjinderMatharoo, My name is Khaji I am the independent advisor and I will be happy to help you today.

I'm sorry you're having trouble selecting drive D or E in the Xbox app. Here are some steps you could follow:

Change the default storage device in the Xbox app.

Fix the Xbox app: Go to Windows Settings > Apps > find the Xbox app > click on it and select advanced options. After that, click on repair and then on restore, open the app and try again.

Temporarily uninstall Gaming Services.

Move Xbox games to another drive from the WindowsApps folder.

Install the game through the Microsoft Store using GamePass.

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veeting

So when i install the app and restart it goes back to my original issue of only detecting C Drive. I am not able to install on D Drive.

CkryztelC

I had drive D configured for apps installation/games installation until i started getting this error. I change to C: but kept getting the same error.

For me what worked was to change the drive letter from D to E and then it worked correctly on C:

Something gets stuck trying to use drive D so remove it or reassign drive letter.

Auditormadness9

Update.

This is idiotic but it's fixed. I simply created a new volume specifically for Xbox App and it can detect it now. So apparently if I wanted my other two (D and S) drives to be detected, they had to be reformatted and recreated (from NTFS to NTFS for whatever idiotic reason), and why I have no idea, especially when my drives are already NTFS, so why? What is so faulty with them?

SupahDrivah1234

No, this did not help. After reset, the Xbox app failed to detect my D: drive, forcing me to manually delete GamingServices and Gaming Services.Net from the Registry Editor--which has happened multiple times already--all in order for the app to detect my external hard drive at all.

But even after I finally get it to be detected, I still run into the exact same error code 0x00000001 and all installs of games via Game Pass have failed.

This has happened at least five times already and I'm very tired of running around in circles. I would like a solution that for once doesn't cause my hard drive to disappear from the app.

XBOX App not detecting D or E drive.