Xbox Game Pass: My game installed on my D: Drive but the app keeps trying to launch it from...

It sounds like you are having trouble installing games from the Xbox Game Pass on your D drive.

Make sure that you have enough free space on your D drive to install the games.

Check if there are any updates available for the Xbox Game Pass app and install them.

Try resetting the Xbox Game Pass app:

On your Xbox One console, go to "My games and apps"

Navigate to the Xbox Game Pass app and press the "Menu" button on your controller.

Select "Manage app" and then "Reset".

Confirm the reset and try installing the game again.

If none of the above steps help, you can try uninstalling and reinstalling the Xbox Game Pass app. Make sure to select the D drive as the installation location when you reinstall it.

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.

Just in case I'm not being understood. I install my games in d: drive. That drive partition never changes/moves. The problem comes when I dual boot from my other windows installation. The funny thing is that I already replicated this scenario in c: drive and it worked. But as I mentioned I have the game o d:. Got all my games there with other launchers and they work flawlessly. Only the Xbox app ones are failing to launch.

Hello ,

Thanks for coming to the forums. When you launch the game, where are you launching it from? The Xbox companion, dashboard, game pass for PC app? Try the Xbox companion to launch the game. Also try updating the address on your account. Make sure your account
is an Xbox account, that it has a gamer tag.

Thanks,

Brad

Hi Brad,

I firstly opened the game from the Xbox console-companion. I tried to install the Xbox companion App but sadly my Laptop is not compatible with the Xbox(Beta)-Installer.

Thanks,

Hi Kathy

Thanks for your response, I'd tried all the solutions mention before posting this with no luck.

I should've mentioned, I'm using multiple drives, the drives had xbox game pass games installed from my old computer on them.

Deleting the windowsapps folder, as well as the other windows folders that are created automatically when installing a new app/game. Seems to have allowed me to install games on my E drive, though my G drive still doesn't seem to able to install new games from the xbox app.

I might just have to format my G drive, though could you tell me what the process is if you're moving a drive, with game pass games installed, on to a new computer?

Kind Regards

Jamie