Problem loading games from HDD

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Launch Genesis Plus GX
2. Attempt to load a rom
3. Error screen saying no files found on any device

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I recently acquired a special adaptor to connect an HDD commonly found on 
desktop computers (I call them "internal HDDs, as opposed to external HDDs that 
come complete with a special protective case, among other components).
Currently, my 80Gb HDD is divided into three partitions: One "unformatted" 
primary partition which is about 36Gb approx. (said partition contains data 
that might not be convenient to be discussed here, if you catch my drift...), 
one FAT16 partition with exactly 4Gb from where I launch homebrew, and an NTFS 
partition that stores personal files from my family (music, photos, etc.)
I can launch the emulator quite succesfully, but I keep getting an error each 
time I try to load a Rom. It simply tells me it couldn't find any files on any 
of the devices I pick. This has only happened to me on this HDD, since I've 
been quite succesful launching and playing games when using smaller USB flash 
drives. Everything is in it's right place (Roms are in the "Roms" folder inside 
"Genplus" folder, which is on the root of my USB).
At one point, I tried copying the settings file which was created on my USB 
over to my HDD to see if it would somehow fix the issue, but no go.

I tried looking for any other settings file I could modify, but apparently it 
only creates one that displays a bunch of white vertical rectangles when viewed 
on Notepad.

I hope there's a fix already available that I'm unaware of, but if not, then I 
guess I could still launch games from flash drives (though it is my wish to 
hold all my games in a single device rather than have them scattered in 
multiple drives and SD cards as I've had before).

What version of the emulator are you using (official, SVN revision,...)?

v 1.3.1

Please provide any additional information below (Video settings, Console
region,...)

System Menu 4.2U

Dunno what else might be relevant...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by master.k...@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2010 at 6:34

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Oh, right... forgot to note that I'm having the exact same issue on Hugo GX. 
Should I make a report over at it's code google page, or is it fair enough with 
me noting this right now?

Original comment by master.k...@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2010 at 6:36

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Not really an emulator issue, the code to access SD or USB is always the same 
and there is no "settings" you can change to make it work, it's just 
incompatibility issue which can caused by various reasons:

* your HDD is incompatible with the USB homebrew library the program was linked 
with.

* there is not FAT16 or FAT32 partition on your drive (in older libraries, the 
FAT partition should always be the first active partition, otherwise it is not 
detected).

In any cases, it should easily be fixed by recompiling the code with a newer 
libogc or updating to a newer version (there are some unofficial ones floating 
around), USB support is definitively working fine here.

Original comment by ekeeke31@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2010 at 6:49

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