Windows 10: Can't set external drive as save location after my PC came back from assistance

Hello.


I've been using my external SSD as a save location for the games I played with Xbox Beta game pass. Everything was working fine until I had to reset my PC due to maintainence.

Anyway, on the SSD drive I still have the games I had installed and the WindowsApp folder which nor I can't delete or edit but when I try to set the drive on the Xbox app again, I'm told to set the SSD as a default drive for app installing.


When I try to do that on Windows settings, I'm told the following things:


New apps will save to: Extreme SSD D: > apply > Delete other apps? This drive has apps from another device. To use this drive, the other apps must first be deleted. Do you want to continue?


Even though I'd prefer to have my old files to be recognised, I press YES.


And then:

We couldn't save your default save location. The operation did not complete succesfully. Try again in a bit.

The error code is 0x80070005, in case you need it.


And I press OK.

Already tried different times and nothing changed.

I followed these steps:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/error-0x80070005-when-changing-default-save/cd3834ee-eb92-49a6-9e61-f7c6a04943c8

But it didn't work for me.


Any advice?

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How to get the data saved within External Harddrive than the Internal Drive on WIndows 10?

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. I understand your concern and will assist you.

I would like to inform that when any file is downloaded the system will ask for an prompt stating where to save the file, at that point of time, we need to select the external had drive and save it manually.

Also, suggest you to follow the steps below and check if it helps:

1. Navigate to Start>>Settings>>System.

2. Click on the Storage Sense option.

3. Under the Save locations section from the right pane, click the drop-down list under the
Save new documents to option.

4. From the displayed options, click the drive letter representing the external connected storage device where you want to set the save location for your documents.

Hope the information is helpful. Keep us posted on the status for further assistance.

 

saving and viewing files on an external hard drive

Hi Sam,

We appreciate you for being part of Windows 10.

Yes, you may format the external hard drive. Follow the below steps.

• 
  Connect the external hard drive to Windows 10 computer.
  
• 
  Press Windows + E keys on the keyboard to the keyboard to open the file explorer.
  
• 
  Locate the external hard drive on left navigation pane in File explorer.
  
• 
  Right click on the external hard drive and click on
  Format.
  
• 
  Click Start and follow on screen instructions to format the hard drive.
  

I hope the above information helps. Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are glad to assist you.

Thank you.

 

External Hard Drive

To address your concern, here are the troubleshooting steps that you can try. Follow the steps below:

Uninstall and reinstall the external hard drive program.

• In the Settings app, go to System.
• Go to Apps & features and locate the external hard drive program.
• Uninstall the program and go to the manufacturer's website to reinstall the updated version.

Uninstall and reinstall the Paragon driver software.

• Following the same steps mentioned above, locate the software in Apps & features
  and uninstall it.
• After uninstalling the software, go to the manufacturer's website to reinstall it.
  

To further isolate your concern, we'd also like to verify if the OneDrive app is enabled on your PC.

You can hit us back for additional help.

Kind regards.