XBMC can't access external drive? [Archive]

strebormj

2008-12-05, 21:34

I'm running XBMC on Vista HP 64. I have an external HDD attached via USB to the computer, and it has all my media files on it in a folder (z:\shared\media). The "shared" folder is, um, shared to various accounts on my home workgroup. On the PC, Windows Media Center, Windows Media Player, and J. River Media Center can all access the files, and they can also be accessed in Windows Explorer. However, in XBMP, whenever I select the Z: drive (either in the XBMP file manager or to specify the location of media files), XBMP jumps away to some folder on C:.

Thoughts?

Thanks

Jester

2008-12-05, 21:39

http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=XBMC_for_Windows_specific_FAQ#What_are_plat form_directories_.3F

BIOYAM

2008-12-05, 21:40

I think that the problem is you having the drive as "z". XBMC for Xbox used it in a different way. Being that this is a port.... try changing the drive letter to something else as a test, but not Q, U, P, T, X, Y or Z.

EDIT: Thanks Jester!!!! LOL.

strebormj

2008-12-05, 22:05

Wow...you guys rock.

That was the issue. Thanks for the fast response!

Meuvro

2008-12-30, 11:51

Hi there,

I've two external drives one WD elements 500gb on p: and one Toshiba 500Gb on Q:. Whenever I want to add the toshiba wants to connect with XBMC it jumps away to yhe XMBC folder on C:. When I connect to de WD drive there's no problem. I'm not using the x:,y:, z:. I'm running under Vista home basic. Any idea what to do except from coping my music collection to the other drive?

paul

2008-12-30, 14:23

Hi there,

I've two external drives one WD elements 500gb on p: and one Toshiba 500Gb on Q:. Whenever I want to add the toshiba wants to connect with XBMC it jumps away to yhe XMBC folder on C:. When I connect to de WD drive there's no problem. I'm not using the x:,y:, z:. I'm running under Vista home basic. Any idea what to do except from coping my music collection to the other drive?

Again Drive Q was used by xbmc on xbox so change it also to something else as stated
before not Q x y or z it should do the trick

befi

2009-01-03, 12:01

You may also use the windows "subst" command:

subst s: z:\

Your files from drive letter Z: are then also available at the letter S: and XBMC can access the files at letter S:

Jester

2009-01-03, 13:02

You may also use the windows "subst" command:

subst s: z:\

Your files from drive letter Z: are then also available at the letter S: and XBMC can access the files at letter S:

nope, can't use Z ! so makeing a subst of Z called S wont help you !

just rename the drive to R, its really very simple in windows.

befi

2009-01-03, 20:06

But it does work here on my machine.
Actually I am using a TrueCrypt partition mounted to drive Z:
Accessing Z: in XBMC results in above described problem with getting redirected to C:\...
But if I subst Z: to S: and access the new S: letter in XBMC it perfectly works.

Jester

2009-01-03, 20:30

But it does work here on my machine.
Actually I am using a TrueCrypt partition mounted to drive Z:
Accessing Z: in XBMC results in above described problem with getting redirected to C:\...
But if I subst Z: to S: and access the new S: letter in XBMC it perfectly works.

weird...

still might be easier to just rename the whole drive, but cool it works :)

althekiller

2009-01-03, 20:49

We do the path translation of Z:/ to temp dir internally. As far as windows is concerned, z:/ is still z:/ so the subst will work fine.