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WD My Book HDD not being detected in For R7300

WD My Book HDD not being detected in For R7300

I connected my External WD Passport 4TB HDD to usb 3.0. It is never getting discovered in network. What am i doing wrong? 

 

WD passport model ---wdbyft0040bwt-0a

 

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Thank you everyone. I was able to ersolve issue. I formatted to NTFS and it worked. 

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I tried with compatible HDD too. Dosent work. Only Pendrives works.

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  • Western Digital My Passport USB3.0 2TB Model: WDBY8L0020BBK-PESN. This was the second device i tried
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What happens if you try the USB 2 port?

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Nothing . Not detected

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4TB is getting into "too big" for this technology. Is your device on this list?

 

ReadySHARE USB Drives Compatibility List | Answer | NETGEAR Support

 

You don't say which format you have.

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I tried with 2TB which is on the list and fully compatible. That also didnt worked.

 

Format of all the  HDD's ExFat.

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@NightHawkGali wrote:

 

Format of all the  HDD's ExFat.

 


That may well be the source of the problem. None of the manuals in my library suggests that ReadyShare supports ExFAT.

 

It mostly offers "the following file system types for full read/write access":

 

  • FAT16
  • FAT32
  • NTFS
  • NTFS with compression format enabled
  • Ext2
  • Ext3
  • Ext4
  • HFS
  • HFS

Why did you go for  exFAT? Won't NTFS work?

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I went for exfat because i wanted HDD to be read both in MAC and Windows. I can try reformatting one of the HDD to NTFS and try 

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Makes sense.

 

There's plenty more like this out there:

 

How to Enable NTFS Write Support in Mac OS X

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Thank you Micheal. Yes after through several articles and purchasing few softwares , I was fed up and finally formatted to exfat. Any way altogether that a different issue. I wil ltry formatting HDD to NTFS and let you know the results. Appreciate your help

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Has Apple entered the 21st century and started to support NTFS?

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Thank you everyone. I was able to ersolve issue. I formatted to NTFS and it worked. 

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Well done.

 

You might like to mark your message as "solved". In that way the forum's search engine will flag it up and later visitors with the same issue should be able to find it more quickly.

 

 

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Thanks. Much appreciated.
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