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TonyLinguini
Aspirant
Oct 23, 2015

Trying to use external MyBook for network backup

I tried to use my old MyBook to do thia and it would not show up. I tried a thumb drive and it showed up fine. So I researched on this site and found a different model suposedly compatible. I bought it but it does not work,

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  • DarrenM's avatar
    DarrenM
    Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
    Oct 26, 2015

    Hello Tonylinguini

     

    Have you tried to format the drive and make sure its NTFS and Fat32 file format?

     

    DarrenM

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      TonyLinguini
      Aspirant
      Oct 26, 2015

      It was NTFS, but it was 3TB. I separated it to 2 - 1.5TB partitions and it saw it fine. However, it is not practical to use it for network backup because it is sl-o-o-o-o-w. Thank you.