External USB Drive

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Hi,

I have just bought a new Tab and want to use my external hard drive with it. I have the USB connector and a y cable to provide power to the external drive, when I plug in it recognises the drive but says it is blank, the drive is in FAT32 format so should be OK. I have done some searching on Google and can`t seem to find an answer. The drive is a Western Digital 320gb passport.

Can anyone help?

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Tab doesn't support hard drives. Only pen drives

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It should work as long as its powered.

AGREED with @scottx bro (never tried though)

Is there an issue with the partition size as I have seen in the forums for some other Samsung devices they only read up to 64 gig?

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Originally Posted by andy1120

Is there an issue with the partition size as I have seen in the forums for some other Samsung devices they only read up to 64 gig?

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maybe it is problem with formatting. lake in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...99&postcount=3

can you help me please?
is possible to connect a internet usb key with a dongle connector?

Originally Posted by sarumans

can you help me please?
is possible to connect a internet usb key with a dongle connector?

According to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...ght=usb+dongle yes

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Originally Posted by panariga

maybe it is problem with formatting. lake in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...99&postcount=3

Yes, needs to be FAT32, not exFAT

Originally Posted by harry47

Tab doesn't support hard drives. Only pen drives

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yes it does. i've got it working on my tab 2 and note II.

my drive is 560gb ntfs formatted. The drive needs to be powered and the software app "Paragon NTFS&HFS+" to auto mount the drive.

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