help please I am getting an error with xplotter
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I used the wallet to plt my 2tb wd mypassport drive and I am getting this message
Plotter v1.0 for BURST
programmers: Blago, Cerr Janror, DCCTChecking directory...
Drive d:\ info:
Name:
File system: exFAT
Serial Number: 1081193376
FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES: no
Bytes per Sector: 512
Sectors per Cluster: 1024
Error creating stream for file d:\burst\plots\16872648834240427378_400000001_7999664_7999664C:\WINDOWS\system32>
can any one see whats wrong and tell me how to correct it
many thanks
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@ironmonger try reformatting the drive to NTFS and see if that fixes it.
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@ironmonger As @VNeck said, you need NTFS. XPlotter uses a stream file to keep track of it's progress and to be resumable - stream files are only available with NTFS.
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The problem that I have is the drive wont format to ntfs I have tried multiple times and the format always fails.
Can you recomend another plotter that will work with exfat
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@ironmonger What OS are you on, and what error do you get when trying to format as NTFS ?
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windows 10 and error message
the format was unable to complete
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@ironmonger said in help please I am getting an error with xplotter:
the format was unable to complete
Okay, that's new to me - you can try this procedure, but be very careful to follow each step exactly, or if you want help I can do a teamviewer session with you.
- Run a Command Prompt as administrator
- from there run: diskpart - this may take a minute to start
- from the diskpart prompt do "list disk"
- This will list the disks in your system, if you can 100% identify the drive giving you problems, proceed.
- do "select disk X" where X is the disk number matching the drive you're having issues with from the list above
- once X has been selected do "clean" - THIS WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON THE DRIVE, so be sure it's the correct drive.
- DO "exit" to quit DiskPart.
- Run the GUI Disk Partition Manager - it'll show the newly erased disk.
- Right click in in it, select Create Simple Partition, File System NTFS, Quick Format etc.
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Thanks for that, I will let you know if the format works
