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    External USB Drive expansion

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      TermiTV
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      Hi there,

      i have a 256 GB sd Card which is full of Roms.
      Now i want to expand retropie with an external drive of 1TB.
      I created a Folder named „retropie-mount“. However the folder structure is created but no roms are on the external drive after quiet some time. Any idea, what i might doing wrong?

      Greetings

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        Please post your system setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

        How much time did you let the system work to copy your ROMs ?

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          VictimRLSH
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          If you interrupt this very long process disaster ensues, I've been there.

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          System Config: Retropie 4.4 with full desktop, RPi 3B, 256gb SD, 5v 2.1A 5,200 mAH USB battery. EasyMSX controller mounted with Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4 (non touch). Also running 4.6 on a 4gb Pi 4 serving as my primary desktop computer now.

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            TermiTV @mitu
            last edited by

            @mitu

            RaspberryPi 4
            Latest retropie
            Original Power Supply
            256GB microSD

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              TermiTV @VictimRLSH
              last edited by

              @VictimRLSH i waited 4 hours and now both the sd card and the external drive are empty.

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator
                last edited by

                i waited 4 hours and now both the sd card and the external drive are empty.

                That's weird, since the USB rom service doesn't delete anything from the sdcard when copying. Is your disc powered from the PI or externally ?

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