Roms on external drive

[Thyrack]

Hello,

I've installed GameEx on the hardrive of my system. My emulators and my roms are located on an external usb3 drive. The problem is that when I am playing to a game and my usb drive switch to standby mode after minutes, if I quit the game, GameEx crash and an error window is open (log.txt as an attachment). The problem does not occur if the drive is running when I quit the game.

Do you have a solution?

Regards,

log.txt

[u-man]

One solution would be to turn off the standby mode. some manufacturers have a option to do this. if you have not this option, then you could try to mount the drive as a internal drive (unfortunatily you would need to put the drive out of the enclosure and connect it like a internal drive to your pc), then you can turn off the standby-mode.

[Draco1962]

I think you have identified the problem thus far:

The problem is that when I am playing to a game and my usb drive switch to standby mode after minutes, if I quit the game, GameEx crash and an error window is open

You may need to dig into your Windows settings to make this change. This post may be of help.

[Thyrack]

Hello,

Yes of course there is the solution of preventing the hard drive to stop, this is what I attempts to apply ... But, as it leads to a crash of GameEx, I think it is necessary to fix on that side anyway.

Either way, thanks for the link Draco1962! Yesterday I tried another way to do that without success!

Regards.

I think you have identified the problem thus far:

You may need to dig into your Windows settings to make this change. This post may be of help.

[Draco1962]

I don't think that there is anything that can be done from a GameEx perspective. If the drive is shutting down and causing GameEx to crash, the you will need to consult the manufaturer's site to see if there is a firmware update or some other management interface for it that will enable you to keep the drive running.

[Thyrack]

Just in case, I will detail a little bit what happen:

- I launch GameEx from my internal drive

- I start to play to a game located on an external drive

- After some time, the external harddrive stops

- I hit escape's key to quit the game

- Screen goes black, external harddrive is trigger and starts

- After few seconds, GameEx crash without displaying its interface since the escape key.

Tonight, as you say Draco1962, I will look if the problem is not caused by the model of my harddrive or try to find a way to manage it.

Thank you,

Regards.

[Adultery]

Spin-down is a power save feature, and it can usually be disabled if you follow Draco's advice.

Some hdd's don't allow you to disable that unfortunately... I only buy ones for my server that I'm positive I can disable this for. Nothing 'green powered' allows you to disable that afaik.

[starbuck]

Have you thought of putting GameEx on the external drive also. I have ran it this way now for almost 2 years. When I hook the external to a different computer, I just create a short cut on the new computer. I have about 200 systems on the external along with the assets and the roms. On the larger systems I just have the top 10 or so top games I like to play to save space. The only problem I have ever had was that, sometimes when Gameex updates, I have to do a manual update.