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External Disk not recognized after Format Using NTFS
I have been trying to mount an external hard drive to my NAS for a few hours now. The drive mounted in the past. I decided to format my Toshiba 5 TB external USB 3.0 drive using a Windows 10 PC in ...
Hi McRob1,
Let's close this thread and continue the other that you've started.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
Hi McRob1,
Have you tried connecting the said hard drive to the other USB 2.0 port of your ReadyNAS? What if you format it in another file system like FAT32?
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
I already tried the front USB port.
I already tried formating the drive on my MAC using FAT32.
I already tried formating the drive on my PC using exFAT.
Any more ideas?
I had to do a manual restart of the NAS and now I can see the drive again.
Hi McRob1,
Does this mean that after rebooting the ReadyNAS it started to detect your external USB storage (in a stable manner) in any of its ports?
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community TeamAfter rebooting I am able to connect to the rear right usb port.
Not sure how stable it is because I am not able to create a backup job that works. The constant error is cannot connect.
I have tried 20 different ways so far.
I am able to see the drive using windows file explorer.
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