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    Retropie not finding Roms on External Hard Drive

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      bkay
      last edited by bkay

      I am having trouble getting my Raspberry Pie 3 model B with RetroPie to find my roms on my 1 TB WD Passport external hard drive. I am new to RaspberryPie and RetroPie and I have been trying to figure this out. I want it to run the roms straight from the external hard drive rat her than the SD card. I did as much searching on the web to figure this out. I found out the drive is located at /media/usb0/ and changed the paths using sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg. The path on my hard drive is for example: F:/nes so I changed the path on retropie to /media/usb0/nes. It still doesnt seem to find the roms. Please any help would be greatly appreciated.

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        Ostego
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        sudo df -h to see what your drive is named.

        Should look something like this:

        • Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
          /dev/root 15G 2.8G 11G 21% /
          devtmpfs 364M 0 364M 0% /dev
          tmpfs 368M 0 368M 0% /dev/shm
          tmpfs 368M 5.2M 363M 2% /run
          tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
          tmpfs 368M 0 368M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
          /dev/mmcblk0p1 57M 20M 38M 35% /boot
          /dev/sda1 30G 1.5M 30G 1% /media/usb0

        The drive you’re looking for is the one that resembles your USB drive. Now, sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

        <system>
        <name>amiga</name>
        <fullname>Amiga</fullname>
        <path>/media/usb0/amiga</path>
        <extension>.sh .SH</extension>
        <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS amiga %ROM%</command>
        <platform>amiga</platform>
        <theme>amiga</theme>
        <directlaunch/>
        </system>

        Change the path for every emulator in the list.

        When you’re done, hit CTRL + O then enter to save the file and then CTRL + X to exit the nano editor.

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          BuZz administrators @Ostego
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          @Ostego editing the file is not recommended. Better to symlink or mount the USB over existing from location.

          To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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