Xbox App wont recognize any of my drives when trying to download a new game

All of my Microsoft and Xbox games are downloaded on my external drive including the previous Horizon, which is Forza Horizon 4. I changed where new apps are stored when downloaded from the Microsoft store to my external drive but it still wont download Forza Horizon 5 to my external drive. On the Xbox app it wont show my external drive as an option to download to. I am able to download any game from the Microsoft store and Xbox app to my external drive except Forza Horizon 5.

Ive given up on the drive as it wont recognize its even a 3.0 drive. my main concern is why a soft reset that says it wont delete any games or apps or anything deleted my locally saved captures

I have the same problem. All my dlcs r on my thumb drive. Except apocalypse wont play. It says its downloaded but still wont be recognized when trying to play live. I deleted twice, cleared cache, still no play.....what is going on xbox?

Another person posted this in another thread.

I followed the directions and it has worked for me.

Once you follow the directions once you click on install it bring up a box asking where you want to install the game.

If you are like myself and use a modist sized drive for windows and use a larger drive for gaming you generally want to install your games on your storage drive not your boot drive, but as it stands by
default when you goto use the xbox beta app it wont allow you to change from its default installed drive.

A easy to fix this is to goto system- then storage- and under the storage tab find " change where new content is saved" then select "new apps will save to" and select your preferred storage drive.

Then uninstall your xbox (beta) app, and reinstall it, now when you goto install a new game on the pc game pass it will give you the option to select what drive you want to install it on.

This issue happens because by default windows needs to recognize that your pc has the folder called windows app on that drive and that it has been setup by a windows app installer atleast once, for the
xbox (beta) app to recognize the new (useable) install location for your games and apps

Hope this helps everyone

I was able to download the update via USB seems to have worked but hard drive still says unformatted, chose to format hard drive, now it is recognized, everything was cleared from hard drive. When I try to download profile it starts downloading then says
"sorry,Xbox LIVE profiles can't be downloaded right now. Try again later. 8007045D."

So angry. New games, time off, and an Xbox that won't work.