How to Add Multiple Hard Drives in Batocera

This is a tutorial on how you can add multiple hard drives in Batocera. You no longer have to store your roms in one hard drive. Quick and easy technique!

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** IMPORTANT **
Please make sure that whatever hard drive you use must be formatted in NTFS.

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[alphageradores]

You are the Best!!!! congratulations on the beautiful work you do here on YouTube. I'm Brazilian and I'm learning a lot from your videos

[andril]

Thank you for the knowledge and the linking collections - much appreciated

[LordShockwave]

This was perfect! Thank you. Added a 2TB HDD I had lying around for some additional games! Yay!

[ll_spud]

Thanks for this great tutorial. I finally got it to work. The links didn't work if I added the game folders however I had to click into the folder and add the individual roms then it worked.

[J.MK]

Wishing I came across this video at the start of the weekend and not the end haha. Not great support on Batocera sites but this is perfect. Simple to bloody understand for someone not so savvy with codings and shit haha. Thank you!!

[bennib]

You the man! No one else mentioned links. All the Linux guys are super techhi all we want is a laymen way rather than typing IP address and stirnfs for passwords

[LuisAFigueroa]

Thank you so much!
I was looking for a better tutorial on how to do this and this works perfectly.

[gregsmith]

Quick and easy tutorial on creating links to games on an alternate drive and placing them in the main Boot/Roms folder. All the roms on my second internal HDD are now detected and play fine.

[hodeyfu]

do you need to recreate the whole directory structure, or just have a roms folder?

[mattdrummond]

Worked like a charm....thanks brother.

[patricksendejo]

Is it possible to copy paste Roms from main storage to external and then linking those files to batocera so that I can have more space on my main storage. And if so what exactly do I need to do before so that the ext hd is accessible to be used for extra storage.

[ura]

hey so im using a 32gb usb drive to run the batocera and trying to use the internal 256gb ssd for storage. I am having problem with switching the storage setting to it as i am seeing "NO-NAME - 222.8G" after i select this and restart the system. my rom storage is still only at 22gb.

[Sisier]

hi, is it compatible with dolphin GC/Wii emulator ?
I see all my roms in batocera but when i launch them. Dolphin doesn't find them ?
and i can't find my drive in dolphin gui windows.

[alessandrodistefano]

Good Evening I recorded the image of the batocera 38 for PC on a 128 memory card... I was wondering if there is a way to show not only the internal disk but also two other disks where there are roms,
In a Batocera Nation video I saw that it could be done via F1, copying the Gamelist file and creating links to the ROMs but it doesn't work for me... Where am I wrong? Does it work even without Batocera installation?

[returnofmerenguespersempre]

Can I have two harddrives in my pc with batocera on one and Windows on second?
Will pc give me any trouble?

I want to have a emulator machine that isnt slowed down by Windows that steals resources in background but I also would like to keep my documents and mails and stuff.

[PetinVasya]

Hi, have 2 installed device, first system and second 2tb roms archive. How to share in PC workgroup second device ?

[adamhonan]

Will the drives stay linked when restarting everything or will they have to be manually linked every time the computer restarts?

[xxnapalmchildxx]

Okay so batocera even sees regular internal drives as an external. So if I do a nvme to store boot and batocera and use hdds to store my roms I would have to link everything with this method?

[tanoryjakaperdana]

1 question.. can batocera detect pcie x1 m.2 nvme? Im planning to use nvme to store the game rom

[lght]

i have 120gb sata ssd and 500gb m.2 could i link from the m.2 t the sata ssd?