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Unknown stuff in device manager

I know it looks like i'm referring to literal unknown devices in device manager, but i am not. Under disk drives, there is a device called "xvd" and I have no clue what this is. If i unplug my external hard drive, and all my USB devices, it is still there. it says it's on the USB bus but it's there even when there is nothing plugged into the USB ports. It says the driver is from 2006, but this is a 2014 computer.

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i haven't seen this before today, either

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XVD stands for Xbox Virtual Disk - it is used for storing and loading Xbox data files.

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Interesting. Every time i looked it up, i'd never get a straight answer. 

just outta curiousity though, what kind of data files are we dealing with here?

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It's an virtual disk drive installed by the Microsoft Gaming Filesystem Driver. "Xbox Play Anywhere" games are essentially unmodified from their Xbox One counterparts, so their data files are stored in the native Xbox Virtual Disk.

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I have multiple XVD drives in my device manager, why is that? Does it put one for each game used from Xbox game pass?

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question if i am not using xbox game pass and i dont need the xvd can i remove it and if so how and permanently also what app is installing this? And if so thanks! I think this is causing issues with transfer speed of drives!!! 

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