Playing Games From External Drive

[msmith]

Hi, I have backed up my GTA 4 disk and it plays absolutely fine on the internal drive, however when I try with external it crashes on boot.

I will load the game from backup manager, it starts to load for a few seconds then crashes. I have tried over 10 games and the only one that works is Wipeout.

Am I doing something wrong or is there something better to use.

I am using a Hitachi 1TB Desktop HDD and a WD Passport Portable Drive.

What is the normal load time for games off of an external drive?

[DJLO]

Hi, I have backed up my GTA 4 disk and it plays absolutely fine on the internal drive, however when I try with external it crashes on boot.

I will load the game from backup manager, it starts to load for a few seconds then crashes. I have tried over 10 games and the only one that works is Wipeout.

Am I doing something wrong or is there something better to use.

I am using a Hitachi 1TB Desktop HDD and a WD Passport Portable Drive.

What is the normal load time for games off of an external drive?

Why don't you try re-formatting the external drive with another FAT32 format utility unless you're on a Mac, then you can format the whole thing fat from disk utility

[msmith]

I have used Gparted for Ubuntu and partition magic for windows but no luck.