I formatted a my passport hard drive as ntfs so I could use it both with windows and with lakka. After I initialized lakka, I am able to access all the content on the drive.
However, if I plug the drive into my windows computer I cannot see the drive at all under computer management.
hi there, i reckon that it has to do with the filesystem, windows can´t read/write EXT4/EXT3/EXT2 and lakka is in EXT4, you can use a tool like Ext2Fsd or other to try but, bare in mind that reading is ok but writing is a bit problematic so try at your own risk.
If you want to be able to read on both Windows and Linux formats for external HDDs, format the external HDD in FAT32 format. That’s how I do it for porting games from my Win10 machine to the HDD and then plug it into my Lakka unit and have it pick up the ROMs/ISOs/Images. There are programs out there capable of formatting drives larger than 32GB (fat32formatter for windows is the one I use and of course, it’s free). You should be able to format up to 2 TB drives with it (I have done so successfully with Seagate and WD drives to use with Linux-based PCs and retro gaming distros).
NTFS is also another file format that can be read with Lakka, etc., but will impact speed and performance, so stick with FAT32.
Hi, sorry to bump this thread, but during my research (quite some months ago) I concluded that NTFS would be a better choice to store the roms. So, please could I ask how come you prefer the storage drive to be FAT32? Thank you.
Probably because I don’t operate in a Windows-only environment and Lakka is a Linux-based OS. Speed is also another issue.