Can't Get NTFS External Hard Drive To Mount. - Acer Iconia A500

I have a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 500GB USB 3.0 Ultra-Portable External Hard Drive
I can't get it to mount with my A500.
I'm running Taboonay Custom Rom (4.010_Com_Gen1)
I am Rooted.
I'm On 3.1
Kernel Version 2.6.36.3
I've tried apps like Drive Mount, NTFS Mount and none of them find my hard drive. How do i get it to mount.

When I had a similar problem this is the steps I went through to finally figure out what was going on:
I checked the portables for what filing system it was using FAT32 or NTFS.
One hdd was running FAT32 so it was automatically appearing under settings as the external usb device
The NTFS would not always be found in Drive mount but I have found if I plug the hdd in before I turn on the Acer then be really really patient after it has booted up it would appear in Drive Mount.
I have found if you go into Drive Mount too quickly after the tablet has fired up it won't be in Drive Mount. There seems to be a delay on reading the USB and I have found that it is nowhere near instantaneous once the tablet has fired up.
Once mounted it appears as /mnt/sdb1 (from memory).
Hope this helps, I find patience when using the tablet the best thing!

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Mount Western Digital 3TB Mybook Essential USB 3.0 External HDD

I have a
Western Digital 3TB Mybook Essential USB 3.0 External HDD
The problem is, that the A500 will not accept this drive connected via USB.
Do anyone have an ida with such a large HDD.
A 2TB HDD has no problem.
Is the drive formatted as fat32?
size is not the issue
Depends on format. If you do not have root access, the USB drive is only mountable if it is FAT/FAT32 file system. If it's NTFS you will need root and a external app (I use Drive Mount, free from market) to be able to use said external HDD
entropy.of.avarice said:
Depends on format. If you do not have root access, the USB drive is only mountable if it is FAT/FAT32 file system. If it's NTFS you will need root and a external app (I use Drive Mount, free from market) to be able to use said external HDD
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With Drive Mount the Drive is recognized but it will not mount the drive.
The drive is formatet with the tool from WesternDigital.
hochgattererjohann said:
With Drive Mount the Drive is recognized but it will not mount the drive.
The drive is formatet with the tool from WesternDigital.
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Hmmmm. Can you hook it up to your PC and check it's properties? What format is it even in?
The drive mount tool shows the drive, but "mount all" fails?
Does the drive actually work on a USB2 port?
over 2,19TB needs Advanced Format
Hi,
I read in one of the computer magazines that MBR (master boot record) only works for drives up to 2.19TB in size, bigger requires this new Advanced Format Support . Win7 SP1 includes this by defauilt I believe. Could be the case for the Iconia that the size is simply too big and that this AF is not (yet) supported ...
just my2 cents,
Marcher
entropy.of.avarice said:
Hmmmm. Can you hook it up to your PC and check it's properties? What format is it even in?
The drive mount tool shows the drive, but "mount all" fails?
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Windows report NTSF and drive mount shows the drive but "mount all" fails
FloatingFatMan said:
Does the drive actually work on a USB2 port?
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Yes it works without a problem on a USB2 port on my PC
When you connect to pc does it shows like 2 drivers letters or only 1, if shows 2 that's your problem there is utility on wd site how to reconfigure to show 1 drive.
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does it have a virtual drive. I am not familiar with wd drive but my iomega ego came with a virtual cd drive with the encryption program and drive mount won't work. But the version 1.2 works
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13337600&postcount=6
Just found out the name of the program wd its wd smartware. Below are link on how to disable them.
http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3835
hochgattererjohann said:
Windows report NTSF and drive mount shows the drive but "mount all" fails
Yes it works without a problem on a USB2 port on my PC
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If it is formatted NTFS and you have a stock A500 that is your problem. You need to format it as a FAT32 drive. You cannot do this through drive management in Windoze 7 (as far as I know) - you need to use a third party application or root your A500 and perform the necessary mods.
Once you root, you can use this.
I had success with the following utility and my 500GB NTFS-formatted external:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13337600&postcount=6
Hope this helps.
NTFS is the norm for External Hard Drives
External Hard Drives all come formatted NTSF. FAT32 is only used on thumb drives less than 16GB large. A file cannot be larger than 4GB on a FAT32 formatted drive and seeing how there are many files(VOB, ISO, MP4) that are larger than 4GB, most people don't think to format their drives to FAT32. If you have a Windows PC you can use an easy program you can find HERE to format your hard drive to FAT32
Ran into a similar problem with my new 1TB WD Passport.
Drive mount sees it and mounts it, but then I don't see the drive contents in root explorer.
strider_mt2k said:
Ran into a similar problem with my new 1TB WD Passport.
Drive mount sees it and mounts it, but then I don't see the drive contents in root explorer.
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Have you checked all the directories under /mnt? I haven't had an issue, just tested with a 1TB as well.
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I use WD 1TB HDD that's formated in NTFS and it does have the virtual drive as when mounted on PC there are two drives mounted.
However I have no problem to mount it on my A500 using the DriveMount. From memory it mounted as sd1(?) under /mnt/...
Just stick the cable to A500 USB port and click the mount all.
I tryed all what here was suggested.
I also splitted the drive in an 2 TB and a 1TB partition.
NTSF-Mount recognized this but didn't mount the two drives.
Has anybody other experiences?
hochgattererjohann said:
I tryed all what here was suggested.
I also splitted the drive in an 2 TB and a 1TB partition.
NTSF-Mount recognized this but didn't mount the two drives.
Has anybody other experiences?
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Are you rooted? Rom version? What third party tool are you using to mount the drive? Need more details to help you.
entropy.of.avarice said:
Are you rooted? Rom version? What third party tool are you using to mount the drive? Need more details to help you.
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I am rooted
I tried drive mount and ntsf mount. Drive mount recognize the drive but do not mount. ntsf mount sometimes mount the drives (I think when i start the pad the last 10 minutes) and do not mount when I plug in the drive.
I use the "[ROM] Honeycomb 3.1 - HoneyVillain 1.05 with 2.5 Kernel)
With 3 TB I had no chance to mount. With splitting it seems that ther are some possibilities but I didnt know at this time what really happens.

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