Hello.
Recently swapped out one of my hard-drives with a new one, and decided to format it as exFAT, since that's the "latest & greatest" file system.
Anyhow, didn't expect any trouble, and everything runs great from it. Everything except installing Witcher 2. Had Witcher 2 installed earlier on the same disk, and it ran fine, but I was unable to patch it because it wasn't registered properly so I figured I'd just do a quick reinstall to fix it, however now the installer tells me that it won't install on a non-NTFS file system.
I realize you can't install on a FAT32 file system, as it only allows files of up to 4GB in size, however exFAT doesn't have this limitation, so it's a bit strange.
Basically wondering if there's a switch or something I can enable for the (gog.com) installer to override the non-NTFS disk error message.
I got over a TB of data on this disk, so moving it over to other disks and formatting it again, then moving it back would take hours.

virtualbox, 16gb ntfs partition, install, patch, copy contents to exFAT, cool?

exFAT is meant as a replacement whenever NTFS cannot be used. But it's not an equal replacement. If you can use NTFS I strongly suggest you do.

There are some severe disadvantages to exFAT, namely it's unknown function (it's not open source and Microsoft refuses to change that). It started with Windows Vista and is actually already dying out since it is hardly ever used. Flash-memory being the exception...

Whoever told you that exFAT is "the latest & greatest" thing probably has no idea what he was talking about. Okay, I'm not pretending I'm an expert. I'm just saying: If you're using Windows (XP, Vista or 7) then NTFS is the standard. You should use it or otherwise expect to run into trouble.

GODzilla has it right. exFAT is intended only for removable media and is desirable only where the overhead of NTFS is intolerable and FAT32 is unusable.

exFAT does not have notions of file ownership or ACL, and this may be fatal to installers.

exFAT also does not have journaling, which makes it a really stupid choice for a writable filesystem, or a mirrored FAT, which makes it a really stupid choice for removable media.

Windows 7 knows about and does special handling of flash media, even when it is NTFS formatted, removing the need for exFAT except in Vista holdover systems.

I doubt there is, but even if there was, you'll encounter problems later on either with the game if it even runs or with other software.

Do yourself a favour and re-format to NTFS.

I don't know who suggested exFAT to you, but they're severely mis-informed.

Using a specialised, obscure file system is not a good foundation for trouble-free computing.

Thanks for the replies guys, I'll make sure to mirror over the data to another drive and do a format to make it NTFS.