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Connecting a hard drive to a Nighhawk M2 MR2100
I have multiple hard drives and drive types and none of them seem to connect to my Nighhawk device. I have formatted the drives as FAT31, HFS, HFS+ and it's not a formatting issue.
Is it possible that the drives are incompatible for one reason or another?
The drives I am using right now are as follows:
- Toshiba 4TB Canvio Basics
- G-Technology 2TB G-DRIVE mobile USB-C
Hi mitchmalone
Welcome to NETGEAR Community!
The MR2100 works with most USB-compliant external flash and hard drives. If the USB external hard drives and flash drives require you to load the drivers onto the computer before the computer can access the USB device then these USB devices do not work with the MR2100.
The MR2100 supports the following file system types for full read/write access: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HFS, and HFS+.
If the HDD does not work it could mean that the USB port of MR2100 is not supplying enough power so its recommended to use a drive with an external power source in that case or check with the HDD manufacturer about any updates to HDD firmware.
Regards,
Blanca
Community Team
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Hi mitchmalone
Welcome to NETGEAR Community!
The MR2100 works with most USB-compliant external flash and hard drives. If the USB external hard drives and flash drives require you to load the drivers onto the computer before the computer can access the USB device then these USB devices do not work with the MR2100.
The MR2100 supports the following file system types for full read/write access: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HFS, and HFS+.
If the HDD does not work it could mean that the USB port of MR2100 is not supplying enough power so its recommended to use a drive with an external power source in that case or check with the HDD manufacturer about any updates to HDD firmware.
Regards,
Blanca
Community TeamThis doesn't appear to be the case. Both of the drives don't require drivers, both of them have been formatted correctly, so are there any drives you can recommend that definitely work?