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R7000 (AC1900) Readyshare and Windows 10
Hello, I purchased the Netgear AC1900 router in 2016 because I needed 802.11ac WiFi for a new laptop (windows 8). I hooked a USB hard drive (2TB) to the router for storing common files (mostly m...
Thanks, but that is not the issue. The USB drive works with the router, Windows 7 and Window 8 can read and write with no issues. IT is the new laptop which has Windows 10 that can not access the USB drive.
Ok, got you.
The only issues I've personally had with USB/external SSD's etc not working initially on my own Windows 10 laptop, is because they weren't formatted correctly. I recently had an issue trying to get my Wife's iPad on os13, to see an external SSD I'd bought for her. I'd formatted on my W10 laptop as NTFS which wouldn't work with her iPad. Changed the format to xFAT or FAT32 and it promptly worked.
I hope someone comes up with a workable solution for you.
Portwey84 wrote:I recently had an issue trying to get my Wife's iPad on os13, to see an external SSD I'd bought for her. I'd formatted on my W10 laptop as NTFS which wouldn't work with her iPad. Changed the format to xFAT or FAT32 and it promptly worked.
Any Netgear ReadyShare router/ReadyNAS supported file system is workable over the network. The access is done using SMB protocol, which makes it fully independent. Different from direct connected devices, where eg. a Windows system can't work with Apple HFS+ (AppleFS isn't supported yet by Netgear) resp. an MacOS/iPadOS which can't work with NTFS as a direct access storage, this does not matter.
Ok, this does not include possible bugs of the foreign file systems implementations like NTFS, HFS+, [exFAT ... not officially supported AFAIK], FAT32 (the routers are all Linux), or file system errors which can be fixed using a file system check (what requires a system with a native support for the file system on the external device.
