My SD card doesn't see my external drive now

Retrodade

Help please

My SD card doesn't see my external drive now
Retro-pie, pi4
I tested another external drive, same.
I tested another card on the drive and it loaded the external hard drive

so, it's not the hard drive , it's the card
I went into retro pie settings and re enabled USB rom service again
still won't see the drive

Question is can I manually add it to some text file?
perhaps a shutdown caused this?
no issues with the card itself, just won't see a drive,
is this fixable?
Thank you

mitu

Please add some info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. Include the information about your external drive.

dukeforest

Both my Pi4 and Pi5 stopped recognizing USB sticks after an update I did a few days ago!
After updating the setup script and main core, they are not recognized even after rebooting
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/
I have followed this and re-configured the settings, but nothing has changed.

Peeteris

Same problem.
After recent updates, external HDD with retropie-mount doesn't mount and nothing (except settings) shows on emulationstation.

TPR

Same issue here. I updated setup-script today on my Pi 5, tried to update retroarch and my entire external hard drive seems to not be recognized. I even tried to re-enable USB Rom Service and that didn't work.

So I guess I'll revert back to my old version until this obvious bug in the latest setup script gets fixed.

sugarfree

It was a bug that the devs fixed. Update retropie-setup script to fetch the latest version and reinstall the usbromservice package.

TPR

@sugarfree said in My SD card doesn't see my external drive now:

It was a bug that the devs fixed. Update retropie-setup script to fetch the latest version and reinstall the usbromservice package.

When was it fixed because I tried that yesterday and it didn't work.

sugarfree

@TPR Few hours ago, see: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commit/18c2b43000ec54d74ba016e0b8de654122377dba

TPR

@sugarfree said in My SD card doesn't see my external drive now:

@TPR Few hours ago, see: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commit/18c2b43000ec54d74ba016e0b8de654122377dba

Perfect! Thank you!

TPR

@sugarfree said in My SD card doesn't see my external drive now:

@TPR Few hours ago, see: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commit/18c2b43000ec54d74ba016e0b8de654122377dba

Just updated setup script and can confirm it works!

dukeforest

@sugarfree I have done the update on both Pi5 and 4 and it is working
Thanks.

Retrodade

@sugarfree THANK YOU!
this is solved

never would have thought updating the retro-pie set up script was how I lost the external drive loading.
i got busy for a few days, was wondering what to do, this am I was able to get on the forum, seen others having same issue after the update of set up script, then remembered "I did that too!" I seen it's been fixed and re did the update, now i have the drive loading again.

thanks for taking the time and adding this info!
also thanks to all others who commented advice

SOLVED!!