Directories and USB drive not showing up in retroarch

godreborn · Nov 5, 2022

yonasz said:
I have this problem too. I allready try factory reset but my usb hard drive not showing up in retroarch. I try few drives exfat and ntfs...Im using latest retroarch.

did a message pop asking if you wanted to format it for xbox games or use it as a media drive? the hdd should be partition E in devmode, but D in retail.

yonasz · Nov 5, 2022

godreborn said:
did a message pop asking if you wanted to format it for xbox games or use it as a media drive? the hdd should be partition E in devmode, but D in retail.

Yes i had messag to use it as a media drive. I can see drive in settings and i can explore it with media player/ kodi in retail Mode. In duckstation i had error 1st time but reasuming game at 2nd try

godreborn · Nov 5, 2022

yonasz said:
Yes i had messagevto use it as a media drive. I can see drive in settings and i can explore it with media player/ kodi in retail Mode. In duckstation i had error 1st time but reasuming game at 2nd try

Can you see it in Retroarch or ftp to it?

yonasz · Nov 5, 2022

godreborn said:
Can you see it in Retroarch or ftp to it?

I cant see it in retroarch. Tommorow i try ftp.
Edit i dont know is that related but i have to use media player in retail to explore it.

godreborn · Nov 5, 2022

yonasz said:
I cant see it in retroarch. Tommorow i try ftp.
Edit i dont know is that related but i have to use media player in retail to explore it.

Is this retail or dev mode?

yonasz · Nov 6, 2022

In retail. In dev Mode i can see hard drive in settings but when i click on details nothing there
Where i can dow retroarch 1.9.10?
Edit 1.9.10 not working as well...
Edit found solution HD must be formated to ntfs and add permition like this
You can do this on a Windows 10 / 11 PC by right clicking on the drive itself > Properties > Security tab > Advanced > Add > Select Principal > Advanced > Find Now > All App Packages > OK > tick 'Full Control' > OK > Enable Inheritance
For some reason exfat not working anymore

godreborn · Nov 6, 2022

yes, but games should still be bootable even without enabling inheritance, on ntfs that is. they did at least for me. what that does is increase boot speed, I believe.

godreborn · Nov 12, 2022

yonasz said:
I have this problem too. I allready try factory reset but my usb hard drive not showing up in retroarch. I try few drives exfat and ntfs...Im using latest retroarch
Where i can download retroarch 1.9.10. I try full reset again its not working

Can't be xbox formatted. You need to plug in an ntfs drive and have the xbox see it as a media drive. This is required of both dev mode and retail, if you use both like I do.

N7Kopper · Nov 20, 2022

godreborn said:
yes, but games should still be bootable even without enabling inheritance, on ntfs that is. they did at least for me. what that does is increase boot speed, I believe.

I think you need the permissions set so that RetroArch can execute from the USB. Without them, it falls back on copying to internal storage.

godreborn · Nov 20, 2022

N7Kopper said:
I think you need the permissions set so that RetroArch can execute from the USB. Without them, it falls back on copying to internal storage.

you do need to set the drive as a media drive, which is E in dev mode or D on retail. speaking of which, the ftp bug is back with dev-mod, so I can't access any folders.

godreborn · Dec 22, 2022

godreborn said:
you do need to set the drive as a media drive, which is E in dev mode or D on retail. speaking of which, the ftp bug is back with dev-mod, so I can't access any folders.

This worked for a while, but at least two official updates seem to have installed, breaking dev mode ftp again. Retail works fine.

Arcade2019 · Jan 3, 2023

You need to make sure the usb has the right permissions. There is a small exe available to do it.

Eugeniius · Jan 22, 2023

Hello I'm having a similar problem. I followed a guide on how to format my drive properly. I'm using a Samsung 3.0 128GB thumb drive. From 2016.

When I insert it into my xbox. It doesn't give me an option to pick media or format. But it does recognise the drive is in.

As soon as I head to retroarch, the D drive is not showing up. I've tried multiple times still the same result in Retail.

godreborn · Jan 24, 2023

Eugeniius said:
Hello I'm having a similar problem. I followed a guide on how to format my drive properly. I'm using a Samsung 3.0 128GB thumb drive. From 2016.

When I insert it into my xbox. It doesn't give me an option to pick media or format. But it does recognise the drive is in.

As soon as I head to retroarch, the D drive is not showing up. I've tried multiple times still the same result in Retail.

Try it in dev mode. It's separate, so it will ask there as well. I think the problem is the flash drive.

Eugeniius · Jan 25, 2023

godreborn said:
Try it in dev mode. It's separate, so it will ask there as well. I think the problem is the flash

I too believe that it is a problem with the flash drive. Because when I tried to use it as storage for games in the USB settings. The xbox told me that I need to use a 3.0 or better flash drive and that my flash drive isn't fast enough.

My flash drive is an early 3.0 build that I had since like 2016. I'm too lazy to set up dev mode I'm waiting to try different usbs and hope that it works

godreborn · Jan 25, 2023

Eugeniius said:
I too believe that it is a problem with the flash drive. Because when I tried to use it as storage for games in the USB settings. The xbox told me that I need to use a 3.0 or better flash drive and that my flash drive isn't fast enough.

My flash drive is an early 3.0 build that I had since like 2016. I'm too lazy to set up dev mode I'm waiting to try different usbs and hope that it works

not sure about it not letting you use it if it's 3.0, but yeah, both the series x and ps5, as well as ps4, will not let you use a drive that's slower than 3.0.

AncientBoi · Jan 25, 2023

I wish someone know about the PC Retroarch [which I have installed on it]. I'd love to try n play xBox games on my PC n cheap logitech controller

godreborn · Jan 26, 2023

AncientBoi said:
I wish someone know about the PC Retroarch [which I have installed on it]. I'd love to try n play xBox games on my PC n cheap logitech controller

I don't know much about the xbox classic hacks, but when I compiled sm64 for Xbox, it came out as first boot iso. I think games need to be prepared, but I'm sure most on the net are already prepared.

Eugeniius · Jan 26, 2023

godreborn said:
not sure about it not letting you use it if it's 3.0, but yeah, both the series x and ps5, as well as ps4, will not let you use a drive that's slower than 3.0.

I've just discovered something. So Basically you know that my Samsung 3.0 doesn't work right. So I tested an old SanDisk 2.0 8GB flash drive. And the D drive shown up in retroarch. This leads me to believe that the Samsung flash drive is the problem

godreborn · Mar 16, 2023

Eugeniius said:
I've just discovered something. So Basically you know that my Samsung 3.0 doesn't work right. So I tested an old SanDisk 2.0 8GB flash drive. And the D drive shown up in retroarch. This leads me to believe that the Samsung flash drive is the problem

I learned something new from @GABO1423 earlier. I'll just put this here for anyone with trouble, but if you have a dev mode brick (i.e. folders showing up as empty) like I do, there's still no fix for it or understanding how or why it happens at random. however, there's a workaround using the dev portal (the one you use to install dev mode apps). there's a file manager in there, so you can copy files, one-at-a-time though. there's a way around that as well, if I understood him correctly. if you zip some files (must be zip, not 7z or rar), it will uncompress it, so you can install more than one file that way.

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