No storage device selected (Vanilla FNV)

[Dillsion1]

I read the other forum post about the topic but found no solution considering everyone 'figured it out on their own' or had mod conflicts

 

I used to be able to run this game fine. It wasn't until moving it from C: to A: I began to have problems. I want to be able to play the game on a different drive because C: is getting full and having almost 70GB of mods on C: from FNV alone is rather worrisome.

 

Settings don't save, but game files do.

 

If there's a way to fix this without changing the folder back to the C: Drive, i'll be a happy camper.

 

btw,

 

I currently have 0 mods installed, my mod loader only at 09 with GRA being the last entitiy. No NVSE or 4gb patch installed (yet)

 

edit:

 

I tried moving it back and now it won't work at all on any drive.

 

Maybe this is a windows update issue?

Edited October 10, 2018 by Dillsion1

[dubiousintent]

First of all, are you speaking about at least different "drive partitions", which Windows will see as separate devices? If you only have one physical device, then this is the only way to get the OS to see it as more than one "logical storage device". If you have more than one physical device, then the OS should automatically recognize each as different drives for each formatted partition, and assign drive letters (starting with "C:") automatically as they are detected.

 

MS-DOS & Windows have always considered drive letters "A:" and "B:" to be reserved for "removable media" (specifically "floppy disks"). Older games and tools (at least) won't consider them to have sufficient available space for most things or as "dedicated storage devices" (i.e. "hard drives"). Try changing the drive letter to something after "C:" (which is the default "operating system" drive). You can use the built-in "Disk Management" applet to change the drive letters without any particular problems.

 

When you say you tried "moving" your game between drives, much depends upon how you went about it. To move the game to a different device, you really can't avoid "re-installing" to the new device. Please see the wiki "Installing Games on Windows Vista+" article for the link to the official Steam process to do that, along with some supplementary tips.

 

-Dubious-

[Dillsion1]

Changing the A: Drive to the G: Drive, then reinstalling it via steam to the G: Drive fixed the issue.

 

Thanks for the suggestion of letter drives being the issue for me. I appreciate the help Dubious!