I need help putting roms on my usb

[_Moosh_]

I have a removable 1TB hard drive plugged into my pi3, for the sole purpose of filling up with roms. it’s great, I have LOTS of games on it, but I recently downloaded a psx collection, and I want to add it to the drive. Problem is, when I plugged it into my computer, it didn’t recognize it. it said it needed to be formatted, but if I were to format it, that would mean losing the rest of my roms. So how do I put my ps1 iso’s on the hard drive without losing the rest of the stuff on it?

[mitu]

How did you transfer ROMs before trying this and which method did you use to make the HDD accesible to the RPI system ?

[_Moosh_]

@mitu umm, i was able to simply open the HDD on my computer and put the roms in it like any other usb.. I don’t know why it says I need to format it now. It works just fine with retropie though
Im pretty sure I went into RetroPie Setup and did the usb rom transfer service

[jonnykesh]

@_moosh_ What OS are you using on your computer? Windows, OSX, Linux?

[_Moosh_]

@jonnykesh windows 10

[mitu]

@_moosh_ You could try running chkdisk on the partition that's not recognized.

[_Moosh_]

@mitu chkdsk says it’s Fat32, as it should be, since it is formatted for the pi.
but it also says:
An error occurred while reading the file allocation table (FAT 1).
and then that same message but with (FAT 2). at the end, and then another message: There are no readable file allocation tables (FAT).

[_Moosh_]

Bump

[Addison]

The only thing I can think of to try is to just keep your hard drive plugged into the Pi and then use something like WinSCP to transfer over those files.

[edale]

You might be able to FTP the files over, with the external HDD plugged into the Pi.

[akafox]

SSH/FTP will work just fine. I have done it myself many times. However it will take some time. might want to be wired for this. If you can plug another drive into the pi..then use midnight commander (the file manager) in the retropie menu and copy that way. Six games over ssh (wireless) three hours..using the file manager took 20 minutes from a cheap usb stick. Note that all my psx that were transferred were .bpb format. cue/bi/iso will take a little longer.

And I take it your drive is properly powered when plugged into the pi correct? The pi can not really power a USB hard drive and itself. As for the PC issue..I have no idea..have another PC to test it with?

[_Moosh_]

@akafox it does have enough power, but it won’t let me ssh it... i have it connected to my pc via Ethernet cable. Im using WinSCP but when I tried to copy the files over it had an error

[mitu]

@_moosh_ Maybe SSH is not enabled - try to enable it https://retropie.org.uk/docs/SSH/

[_Moosh_]

@mitu it is enabled

[Trailjacker]

So, stupid questions :

1. Did you get the updated IP from the Retopie Menu?
2. Does the Pi still run other games off of the Ext HDD?
3. In WinSCP are you using SFTP Protocol?
4. WHat error do you get when you try to SSH in?
5. Is the error on the HD in windows to Format it or to check for errors?

[_Moosh_]

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[_Moosh_]

@Trailjacker

1. Did you get the updated IP from the Retopie Menu? No, it didn’t show an ip. I can still ssh into it though
2. Does the Pi still run other games off of the Ext HDD? Yes, the HDD works just fine
3. In WinSCP are you using SFTP Protocol? Yes
4. WHat error do you get when you try to SSH in?
   Copying files to remote side failed.
   General failure (server should provide error description).
   Error code: 4
   Error message from server: Failure
5. Is the error on the HD in windows to Format it or to check for errors? Both, I think. Format for sure

[_Moosh_]

I ordered a 500gb ext HDD for all my ps1 iso’s for the pi. Can I have both the new 500gb HDD and my 1TB HDD plugged into the pi at the same time to play games? Or does it only let you use one..?

[Trailjacker]

If it doesn't show an IP it shouldn't be connected to the network. Which would make me ask how you got the IP to SSH into.

Besides that, are you able to download files through WinSCP just not upload them? If so, it is almost definitely a permission problem in my opinion. I had something similar with my rom folder on my first Pi3 install and I had to CHMOD the roms directory to 755 I believe, but I'd have to check.

[_Moosh_]

@trailjacker it never even asked me for the ip, just the username and password to the pi... maybe because it’s connected directly to the computer via Ethernet cable?
Also I can download stuff from the pi, but not upload, as you said