External Hard Drive got me stumped

[sfs1965]

Recently purchased a 2.5 hard drive enclosure off Amazon and put in a 640gb old laptop drive. Didn't need to save anything on it so I formatted and partitioned it using Easus Partion Master. It works fine on my Windows 64 machine but neither my TV or Sony player recognize it and the both work with various other Hard Drives (WD external,IOmega, thumb drives etc.)

The enclosure came with a Y usb cord and works with just fine with just one of the Y's plugged in on my desktop and seems to spin up (led comes on also) when plugged into both media devices even when I plugged both ends of the Y in (thinking it might of been a power issue).

Any ideas or thoughts would be great

 

[rwinches]

How was it formatted before you used used EPM on it?
Did you format it NTFS of FAT32?
What file system is on the drives that work?
Did you Quick format?

 

[sfs1965]

It was NTFS. Then i went Fat32 based on my BluRay player usb compatibility and then tried NTFS (my tv reads both).

And did full format on the drive.

 

[rwinches]

IDK what the other drive sizes are so I'll just suggest just as a step make two smaller partitions on the drive see if for some reason that works.

 

[sfs1965]

One of the other drives is 1 TB

 

[rwinches]

Ok so a non windows device can't read the drive.
Is there windows security (bitlocker) on the drive or compression.
Have you tried a different USB cable?

To format a drive larger than the 32GB FAT32 limit use this program

there is a 64 bit ver DL link at the bottom in the notes section.
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm

http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/Fat32Formatter/

 

[sfs1965]

no security no compression

 

[rwinches]

There is still the 4GB file size limit on FAT32.

You can try using Disk Manager to re-create the partition and let Windows format the drive.

 

[sfs1965]

I might give that a go next.

 

[rwinches]

Try putting the drive in the WD enclosure? Just to rule out the new one.

 

[sfs1965]

2.5 vs full size

 

[sfs1965]

try windows formatting no luck

 

[sfs1965]

So I swapped the 640 gb sata for an older 500 gb sata and works with the TV. I guess the 640 might have different power requirements.

 

[rwinches]

So the 640 may need to be connected using a externally powered hub or enclosure.