Installing games to an external hard drive

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Hi!

I wanted to install Epic Games Launcher (specifically, World War Z) on an external HDD. However, there seems to be an issue. Wine Mono will start installing the game if I select the /home/user/Games/ directory, but if I select the external HDD on /run/media/user/HDD/, the installation starts, installs some Windows files (no appearance of Wine Mono at all, and then stops without even installing any Epic Games files.
The error message I receive is:

The executable at path /run/media/alarg/My Passport/Games/epic-games-store/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Epic Games/Launcher/Portal/Binaries/Win32/EpicGamesLauncher.exe can’t be found, please check the destination folder.
Some parts of the installation process may have not completed successfully.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Regards,
Alarg

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You have to mount the disk in the /etc/fstab and configure for your use.

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I’ll try that, thanks!

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It doesn’t work, it displays that the drive is formatted for Windows usage (it was formatted on a windows machine, NTFS). Either way, thanks for your help!

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Try with ext4 format, i think should work and manually mount.

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I’d try that, however I need the drive for exchangeabilty. I don’t have a spare drive to check whether that would wokr and I currently can’t afford to lose all my data. If no one tries and confirms, you’ll just have to wait for me :smiley:

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