@Lolonois said in usb boot from 5tb hdd:

@korn16ftl3 Thanks for the heads up and hints. Happy retro-gaming.

It should also be noted to check and see if you have an energy saver in the firmware for your HDD. Mine did and it interfered with it somehow and gave me problems after a shit down and did some weird stuff…it eventually straightened its self out HOWEVER if you have the energy saver “feature” on your particular hard drive it should be disabled if you plan to leave the system on for long periods of time. I was able to do this with a windows pc using the WD utilities software. Others may have to seek other solutions to keep the drive from entering sleep mode.

I must say that even tho this whole thing was frustrating it was fun at the same time and felt accomplishing once I actually got the results I was after. Oh and I learned a lot about Linux along the way besides the little I already knew.

There’s no reason why 4tb won’t work, only that by default retropie installs into folders in the home directory of your user account ... so either you ensure there’s enough space partitioned there, OR you move the directory to a path with more available space and create a link in your home directory to that path.

@KN4THX you really can't beat them for the price.