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Restart Required: Xvdd SCSI Miniport

Anonymous
2020-09-03T17:27:25+00:00

Hello,

Just today I got a notification that said:

Restart Required

Your PC Needs to be restarted to finish setting up this device

Xvdd SCSI Miniport

This seems very suspicious to me. I have made no hardware changes in over 4 months. I do not have any SCSI devices connected to my computer. As far as I can tell, my Motherboard doesn't have any dedicated hardware to support SCSI either. I did a thurough search online for what the Xvdd scsi miniport driver even was, and came up with virtually nothing. Can anyone tell me what this is and why it would want to install on my computer?

A windows defender system scan as well as a Kaspersky full scan both came back negative.

Thank you for your time.

My System

Windows 10

Motherboard: MSI Meg x570 Unify

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900x

Ram: 16gb 3200

Video Card: Radeon R9 390

Hard Drives: 1x nVme 500gb SSD, 1x SATA 500gb SSD, 1x SATA 1TB HD.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-11-24T09:26:03+00:00

    This driver belongs to one of the XBox gaming features / applications you should find on your PC. If you look at the driver details, it is signed by "XBox". And while I also just got that message, the original driver installation date (found that in the events tab of the driver details) is a few months ago and there have been several updates to that driver already that went silent.

    For me this driver was first installed at the same time my PC installed the "Microsoft Gaming Services GameInput Redistributable" so I guess it belongs to that. I've not found what installed the GameInput service but I guess this was part of either a game or the Xbox app I installed around that time.

    I guess XVDD it stands for "XBox Virtual Disk Drive" or something like that, maybe storing save games on a virtual disk?

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  1. Igor Leyko 110.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-09-03T17:39:15+00:00

    Hi Chase,

    I'm Independent Advisor not Microsoft employee or support person. But I'm in contact with Windows developers since 1995 - as a one of the best Windows beta-testers till 2009 when program was closed, as an MVP in 2005-2017 including Windows System & Performance nomination. So I have deep enough Windows knowledge and you may trust me. It's a pleasure for me to help others and I'll do all my best to help you.

    Did you install any game or other software? This device may be used to create virtual disks.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-16T20:19:02+00:00

    I bet you have Daemon tools installed.

    It uses virtual scsi to emulate cd drives.

    I'm guessing with an update that windows just had to update the drivers for the virtual cd-rom drive.

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  3. Igor Leyko 110.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-09-03T22:14:26+00:00

    This is virtual device so it does not need in any physical SCSI device. May be some settings required it to be installed install. This is safe so do not worry.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-09-03T22:07:17+00:00

    Hello,

    Thank you for the reply. I have not installed any new software in many weeks. Although Windows did update about a week ago.

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