09-26-2011, 07:37 PM | #1 |
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External Hard Drive and PE
Has anyone else connected an external hard drive to the PE? I know,I know why would I do that - well at least I'm not playing around with the system files. When I connected them the power light on the hd came on and a PE dialogue came up saying the usb device was blank or not supported. Well since it was formatted NTFS it wasn't able to read it. I tried the rest of mine but they all have the wrong format - except on the last one there was an old restore partition from a laptop. Lo and behold the PE saw it and connected. It showed up as a source in my reading program. Haven't had time to do anything else yet. Anyone else done something along this line? Oh yeah, it was a self-powered ext hd. The passport powered up though I am not recommending that.
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09-26-2011, 07:53 PM | #2 |
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Yes there is a thread on this subject in the archive entourage forum at the top of this forum.
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09-26-2011, 08:08 PM | #3 |
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Gunnerp245. I did a search on the forum and archive before I posted , but I guess I didn' use the magic words. Could you point me to that thread?
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09-26-2011, 08:45 PM | #4 |
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Old thread here (there may be mentions in others):
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...external+drive (I used the Advanced Search function.) |
09-26-2011, 09:33 PM | #5 |
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Thanks Glow - I found some more by searching posts instead of just thread titles. I 'm thinking about reformatting a 2.5" drive to Fat32 so I can play around with this some more.
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09-27-2011, 06:13 PM | #6 |
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I have a cute little Verbatim drive (500MB) and about half the size of my PE. One of the first things I did was hook them up to see what would happen.
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09-28-2011, 07:19 AM | #7 | |
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The other problem that can and will be a problem is the format of the drive - the EE and PE do not understand NTFS formatting that windows uses for large hard disks so any drive so formatted will appear blank if it appears at all. I have a 1 TB drive that is supposed to be self powered but I power it from an in line adapter we made, divided into two partitions, FAT32, and HPFS (OS/2). My EE can read the FAT32 without problems (OK, OS/2 can see and read both hence my using them). |
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