Lakka USB shows as two drives in My PC after being formatted!

Libretro Lakka
#1

Here is what happened:

  1. I installed Lakka on a USB stick
  2. I formatted the USB stick
  3. Now it shows as 2 seperate drives on My PC in File Explorer!

I know this has to do with partitions, but I still need help!

#2

That’s normal. The actual OS stuff resides on a different partition from your games and whatnot because it mounts the OS partition read-only (this helps prevent corruption from improper power-downs, among other benefits) while letting you write to the game/config partition freely.

#3

But I want it to return back to normal! Like, before I installed Lakka on it!

#4

Assuming you’re using Windows, here’s a good rundown of the process: https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/reset/windows/index.en.html

If you’re using linux, use gparted and just delete the partitions and re-partition the unused space.

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#5

Thank you so much! It worked perfectly fine! <3

#6

For whatever reason the devs decided to have a normal fat16 partition for the file system to be loaded into ram, the second partition is emtpy and EXT3. Lakka resizes this to however much space is left on the usb. I assume this is used to bind mount to /roms/ and so on so the love system can read a persistant files like roms.

The consequences are that some PCs will not boot with the hybrid gpt/mbr, and normally you can’t even see any partitions within windows as Windows does NOT support ext format. On a side not If lakka devs could do something like slitaz that can handle booting from and running on fat32 then we’d not be forced to have two computers to transpher files. Also Lakka would boot on more systems.