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Herr Mainyu Aug 15, 2018 @ 4:50pm
Wrong Harddrive Detected (Fat32 instead of ntfs)
Ich have 3 HDD in my computer, 1 extern Fat32 HDD and 2 intern NTFS. Steam is installed at the Fat32.

Some of my games, like Conan Exiles and Phantom Doctrine are installed at the intern NTFS Drives.Since a few month, if it come to updates, they wont, with an error messege: Fat32 is not supportet, they need a NTFS Drive (on which they are...). I have to delete and reinstall the whole game, every update. Any Solutions for this case? :-)

is it possible to install steam on an NTFS Drive without reinstall all my games?
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Bad 💀 Motha Aug 15, 2018 @ 4:57pm 
Always format your storage drives as NTFS.
Only small USB drives like 8GB flash should be FAT32.
FAT32 can't handle large files; it's meant for legacy setups; like WinXP w/ 20GB HDD

Yes you need to wipe that drive clean and then delete the volume from Disk Management and then redo it as NTFS

It doesn't matter where Steam Client is, it matters where the Game is installing to.
Last edited by Bad 💀 Motha; Aug 15, 2018 @ 4:58pm
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_I_ Aug 15, 2018 @ 5:14pm 
yes, just move the steam folder from the external to the internal drive

if its esata or usb hdd enclosure, format it ntfs

you can use convert if its a large drive formatted fat32
start -> run/search -> cmd
convert x: /fs:ntfs /x
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