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TonyLinguini
Oct 23, 2015Aspirant
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 ...
DarrenM
Oct 26, 2015Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
Hello Tonylinguini
Have you tried to format the drive and make sure its NTFS and Fat32 file format?
DarrenM
- TonyLinguiniOct 26, 2015Aspirant
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.
- vkdeltaOct 26, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
- TonyLinguiniOct 27, 2015Aspirant
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