Windows 10: Can't Install gears 5 from microsoft store onto external SSD

i have game pass so when i click "install" it asks me to choose which drive to install to and the H drive which is my external SSD does not pop up it is an issue with every game i attempt to install from the windows store

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microsoft store install on external SSD

Sorry for the repeated messages, but I think I figured it out. It seems like the Microsoft Store doesn't take too kindly to downloading and installing games onto external SSDs (at least the Samsung T5). I did an experiment and installed ReCore onto my flash
drive and now the game runs. I guess you will have to use an HDD if you want to install games from the Microsoft Store onto an external drive.

Hope this helps!

 

Gears 5 Won't Update or Download/Install in Microsoft Store

About a week ago, I went to go launch Gears 5 in Windows 10 and it was grayed out. I went to the Microsoft Store app to hit update and was given a error that something was wrong and that Gears 5 needed to be reinstalled. After clicking reinstall, Gears
5 was removed from my "Installed" list. When I try to install it from "Library", it's stuck on working. Other apps and games will install fine in the Microsoft Store. Also, I noticed that if I click "Install" from "All Owned", it moves it to downloads but
doesn't do anything. If I click the download button to the right in Downloads, it just does the spin notification. If I move to another page and go back, it's no longer doing anything.

I've tried the following:

• Logged in and out of my account in Microsoft Store
• Removed my computer from devices in my Microsoft account and re-adding it
• Cleared the cache
• Ran Diskcleanup and selected System files option as well
• Run wsreset.exe
• Reinstall Microsoft Store and Game Services using PowerShell
• Verified that Gears 5 was deleted except for the saved game files
• Run Windows App Troubleshooter
• Installed another game I own digitally through Microsoft Store, launched it and uninstalled it without issues
• Run Windows update and installed update 1909

Things I can't do:

• Change storage location for apps as I only have one drive and I don't feel like re-partitioning my drive to create a second drive letter since the above works.
  

 

GEARS OF WAR 5 INSTALL ISSUE can anyone fix?

Environment

- Win10 Pro / 1905 with XGP subscription

Repro Steps

- Start downloading Gears5

- Taking a while, so rebooted a couple times and resume downloaded

- Download completed and got notification toast says "Gears 5 just got installed, check it out"

Symptom

- In start menu, Gears 5 shows up with down arrow icon. More sub-menu only has 2 items (clear list and remove from the list)

- On same start menu item, right click uninstall, doesn't do anything, but removing down arrow icon. (file still exist in my SSD. C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MSIXVC\1E66A3E7-2F7B-461C-9F46-3EE0AEC64B8C, full 60 Gig space)

- In XBox (Beta) app, Nothing listed under left side of pane, all, installed, queue, nor needs attention section

- In Xbox (beta) app, find gears 5, then installation button shows up, Click the button will cause the windows notification, says got installed.. (gives down arrow icon on start menu, and goes into infinate loop)

- There's nothing in apps & features under settings

- CANNOT even manually delete C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MSIXVC\1E66A3E7-2F7B-461C-9F46-3EE0AEC64B8C, guessing from the size and file date, I'm quite sure it's Gear 5.

Now, it just taking up 60 Gig of my SSD, can't delete, can't play, can't move, can't reinstall, can't anything.

It's a P1 issue, please, escalate to the dev team.