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GRUMBLE GRUMBLE @ R8000
Tonight I was looking around my R8000, and as one tv star used to say, "Surprise Surprise Surprise" - I went to the router attached device list and somehow it was all messed up (again!) I have tried...
grumpa43wrote:RE: HDD connected to USB3 & R8000
My experience is this; you cannot power-up or reboot the R8000 with a drive plugged in to the USB3 port - it will not be recognized. So, before power-up / reboot, remove any drive, power up the R8000, and after it has "settled" for a few minutes, plug the drive into the USB3 port and it should be recognized.
In my case, after powering it up and inserting the 3.0 flashdrive it did power up (light blinked). It was recognized on the Browser Genie USB ReadyShare tab. But that was as far as it went. I'm on W10 and Explorer could NO LONGER see the router. NET VIEW will not work either. See my post #12 on https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/USB-3-0-port-not-working-with-external-HD-on-X6-R8000/td-p/1337978 for details.
Problem is - if I browsed to the router, I could see the external drive and use it as a FTP server, just the blasted ReadyShare Vault wouldn't even see the drive even though it was connected. I did the manual disconnect of the drive. Unplugged it. Turned off the computer, rebooted the router and then plugged in the drive, reestablished the share points (as the router wouldn't allow me to disconnect the drive until all share points were deactivated) - same result.