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August 9, 2025
Question

lone echo

I don't have enough space on my C: drive, I have to install on either of my external drives and I get the error drive must be NTFS? WTF!
what a crock of sheet.
I have NEVER had so much grief installing a game.
any work arounds?

    2 replies

    steve40
    Honored Contributor
    August 9, 2025

    So what file format are your external drives using? Windows games require NTFS and not an older format such as FAT32 because of file size limitations. It's possible to convert a drive from FAT32 to NTFS without losing data, see this YouTube video for example. Alternatively, free up space on your C drive or get a new storage drive and format it to NTFS.

    New Participant
    August 10, 2025

    hey mate I gave up and got a credit.
    My external HD is exFAT I just think its ridiculous, I have never come across such a problem just to install a game over my many many years of gaming. no game has ever asked me for a HDD to be formatted in a specific way.
    thanks for replying.