Problem loading games from HDD

[Former user]

Original [issue 111](https://code.google.com/p/genplus-gx/issues/detail?id=111) created by master.krono on 2010-07-29T06:34:36.000Z:

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Launch Genesis Plus GX 2. Attempt to load a rom 3. Error screen saying no files found on any device

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I recently acquired a special adaptor to connect an HDD commonly found on desktop computers (I call them "internal HDDs, as opposed to external HDDs that come complete with a special protective case, among other components). Currently, my 80Gb HDD is divided into three partitions: One "unformatted" primary partition which is about 36Gb approx. (said partition contains data that might not be convenient to be discussed here, if you catch my drift...), one FAT16 partition with exactly 4Gb from where I launch homebrew, and an NTFS partition that stores personal files from my family (music, photos, etc.) I can launch the emulator quite succesfully, but I keep getting an error each time I try to load a Rom. It simply tells me it couldn't find any files on any of the devices I pick. This has only happened to me on this HDD, since I've been quite succesful launching and playing games when using smaller USB flash drives. Everything is in it's right place (Roms are in the "Roms" folder inside "Genplus" folder, which is on the root of my USB). At one point, I tried copying the settings file which was created on my USB over to my HDD to see if it would somehow fix the issue, but no go.

I tried looking for any other settings file I could modify, but apparently it only creates one that displays a bunch of white vertical rectangles when viewed on Notepad.

I hope there's a fix already available that I'm unaware of, but if not, then I guess I could still launch games from flash drives (though it is my wish to hold all my games in a single device rather than have them scattered in multiple drives and SD cards as I've had before).

What version of the emulator are you using (official, SVN revision,...)?

v 1.3.1

Please provide any additional information below (Video settings, Console region,...)

System Menu 4.2U

Dunno what else might be relevant...

[Former user]

Comment # 1 originally posted by master.krono on 2010-07-29T06:36:42.000Z:

Oh, right... forgot to note that I'm having the exact same issue on Hugo GX. Should I make a report over at it's code google page, or is it fair enough with me noting this right now?

[Former user]

Comment # 2 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2010-07-29T06:49:56.000Z:

Not really an emulator issue, the code to access SD or USB is always the same and there is no "settings" you can change to make it work, it's just incompatibility issue which can caused by various reasons:

\* your HDD is incompatible with the USB homebrew library the program was linked with.

\* there is not FAT16 or FAT32 partition on your drive (in older libraries, the FAT partition should always be the first active partition, otherwise it is not detected).

In any cases, it should easily be fixed by recompiling the code with a newer libogc or updating to a newer version (there are some unofficial ones floating around), USB support is definitively working fine here.