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ReadyShare file system: Does R6900v2 AC1900 NightHawk support exFat Western Digital MyBook 4TB drive
Readyshare will not work with my new Western Digital MyBook 4TB external USB drive. I checked the properties and the file system is exFAT. Is this file systtem supported? If not, I can reformat to a...
Changing the file system solved my problem - the readyshare drive now works.
I decided to do a full, not a quick, format of the WD MyBook drive using NTFS and the default (smallest) allocation size of 4096 bytes. I don't know if it's optimal, but it works.
One of the posts on this forum mentioned the file sytem, and that led me to try this. I can't recall which post because I read so many, but thank you!
Changing the file system solved my problem - the readyshare drive now works.
I decided to do a full, not a quick, format of the WD MyBook drive using NTFS and the default (smallest) allocation size of 4096 bytes. I don't know if it's optimal, but it works.
One of the posts on this forum mentioned the file sytem, and that led me to try this. I can't recall which post because I read so many, but thank you!