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uniquesaa
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3 months ago
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Game Won't Download To External Hard Drive

I have been trying to download The Sims 4 game to my external hard drive, but it isn’t working. The download proceeds without issues on my main hard drive, but when I attempt to download it to the ex...
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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    3 months ago

    uniquesaa  Try formatting the drive as NTFS.  This will erase everything on it at the moment.  If that's a problem, you can instead partition the drive, setting aside some extra space for the exFAT partition and allocating the rest as NTFS.  This will let the drive act as two drives in software, with the NTFS partition working just as well as it would were the entire drive formatted as NTFS.

    You can partition and/or format the drive through Disk Management.

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puzzlezaddict
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3 months ago

uniquesaa  Try formatting the drive as NTFS.  This will erase everything on it at the moment.  If that's a problem, you can instead partition the drive, setting aside some extra space for the exFAT partition and allocating the rest as NTFS.  This will let the drive act as two drives in software, with the NTFS partition working just as well as it would were the entire drive formatted as NTFS.

You can partition and/or format the drive through Disk Management.

  • uniquesaa's avatar
    uniquesaa
    New Novice
    3 months ago

    This worked, thanks so much!

  • Ashariah2003's avatar
    Ashariah2003
    Rising Newcomer
    2 months ago

    my game is still stuck on 2% installing is there anything else I should try I’ve been having this problem for months ..

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