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[Q] Trouble mounting usb hdd and usb question :-)

Have a old 60gb external USB 2.0 hdd - formatted fresh using FAT - drive tests fine.
Cannot seem to get my a500 to use it - tried the "drive mount" tool from the market and I see my hdd under unmounted devices, when I try to mount it I get "driver for sda1 failed to load".
Running 3.1 early release, rooted.
One more question I had about USB - can I plug a powered or unpowered USB hub into the a500 and use both external keyboard / mouse at the same time?
(Edit: issue resolved. For some reason a full format using FAT produced a bad volume, whereas a full ntfs format worked like a charm. Next step: powered USB hub and I am gonna be so happy)

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Is it in a old drive bay.some of the older external drive bays take alot of power. If it has a external power adaptor you might have to use it pluged iin. And trybto have your tablet pouted into power outlet as well.it helps with my 3.5 500 gig drive bay

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Yup - it's a older model and requires external power, which was plugged in - as well as the tab.
Formatted drive using Windows 7 - FAT was not a option, only exFAT or ntfs. Did full format.
Mount utility sees the drive - just cannot mount it. Might try a reformat from a older system and see if that helps.

entropy.of.avarice said:
Have a old 60gb external USB 2.0 hdd - formatted fresh using FAT - drive tests fine.
Cannot seem to get my a500 to use it - tried the "drive mount" tool from the market and I see my hdd under unmounted devices, when I try to mount it I get "driver for sda1 failed to load".
Running 3.1 early release, rooted.
One more question I had about USB - can I plug a powered or unpowered USB hub into the a500 and use both external keyboard / mouse at the same time?
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Try formatting to ntfs, then use this to mount it. Works with my 750 gb external drive and it shows up under memory in settings. Also, yes both types of USB hubs, should work.
OK so I'm new and I can't post a link to Mega upload, but I can PM you the link if you like.

dogbots159 said:
Try formatting to ntfs, then use this to mount it. Works with my 750 gb external drive and it shows up under memory in settings. Also, yes both types of USB hubs, should work.
OK so I'm new and I can't post a link to Mega upload, but I can PM you the link if you like.
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You nailed it - works like a charm. Thank you very much - going out of town soon, really need the storage.
Now if I could just *find* my damn USB hub

Which software you guys use for formating the hdd??....which format you guys use....?...can I use pupply linux for formating the hdd??
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vari9 said:
Which software you guys use for formating the hdd??....which format you guys use....?...can I use pupply linux for formating the hdd??
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I am doing this on a rooted a500 running the early release of 3.1 - just used my Windows 7 desktop to format the drive as NTFS - using a free software package from market called "drive mount" which can mount lots of different devices. If you are not rooted - pretty sure the USB drive has to be FAT file system for it to work.
Sure, you can use Linux for the format - plenty of freeware tools for Linux that will do this for you in a nice GUI setting

I was planning pn using the gparted partition manager on puppy linux..........is it good enough?......and will my hdd suffer memory loss when I format it to fat32??
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vari9 said:
I was planning pn using the gparted partition manager on puppy linux..........is it good enough?......and will my hdd suffer memory loss when I format it to fat32??
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Generally reformatting a drive will delete all data on said drive. Would recommend backing it all up, formatting it - and restoring it.
Do you have root on your Iconica? If so - you should be able to mount the drive pretty much regardless of what format it is in - what type of file system is it?

I haven't rooted my device......and I meant free memory loss.....would the hdd size decrease??
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[Q] USB OTG question

I have the international version of the LG G2 32gb. Stock rooted with exposed framework, one or two navbar/statusbar modules installed.
I have tried a small 4gb usb drive and the G2 recognises it just fine. I have nothing bigger except for an old (perfectly working) 100gb usb external hard disk drive ntfs format. it doesn't rely on any power. USB cable from PC powers it just fine.
So when I connect this drive via USB OTG, my G2 simply doesn't see it. I've waited more than half hour to see if it is performing a media scan silently but it still doesn't show on any of my file explorers such solid and root explorer and stock one ofcourse.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Is it because it is an external hdd?
Is it because the phone can't power it on its own?
Is it that it can read only smaller cards less than 100gb? I don't have access to anything else to test.
Is USB OTG supported in aosp roms like pac man?
Thanks guys.

subhani said:
I have the international version of the LG G2 32gb. Stock rooted with exposed framework, one or two navbar/statusbar modules installed.
I have tried a small 4gb usb drive and the G2 recognises it just fine. I have nothing bigger except for an old (perfectly working) 100gb usb external hard disk drive ntfs format. it doesn't rely on any power. USB cable from PC powers it just fine.
So when I connect this drive via USB OTG, my G2 simply doesn't see it. I've waited more than half hour to see if it is performing a media scan silently but it still doesn't show on any of my file explorers such solid and root explorer and stock one ofcourse.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Is it because it is an external hdd?
Is it because the phone can't power it on its own?
Is it that it can read only smaller cards less than 100gb? I don't have access to anything else to test.
Is USB OTG supported in aosp roms like pac man?
Thanks guys.
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NTFS
That's your problem friend... Format it to FAT32 or root and use this
Cheers!

Really? Wow, I'm gonna have to transfer all those files from the hard drive first and then format right? I hope my G2 would recognise it then. I'll post an update soon as I can get my hands on another HDD to back up to before format.
Thanks.
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The only thing is, my other small USB drive which did work via USB OTG is also NTFS format. Why would this work and not the larger capacity external HDD?
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subhani said:
The only thing is, my other small USB drive which did work via USB OTG is also NTFS format. Why would this work and not the larger capacity external HDD?
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Are you 100% certain the other one is NTFS?
Android is not NTFS compatible out of the box (unless rooted).
Cheers!

Yes I'm sure. The 4gb USB stick that works over otg cable is actually what I used to create a quick recovery drive of my win8 laptop as soon as I unboxed it. Win8 requires the flash drive to be NTFS for the recovery image to be created. So I did as it asked and formated and it produced the recovery drive on it.
I now connect it to my G2 and it recognises the flash drive and it shows the contents as recovery files for windows.
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Tldr both drives are NTFS format.
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how to make note 3 read USB flash disk

hi guys
i have note 3 (9005) and i make update to kitkat so now it cant read USB flash disk.
my question is how can i make note 3 (9005) read USB flash disk? can any one help me in this problem?

Kitkat can still read flash drives. What did you do ash? You catch'em all with your pokeballs? Lol
What format is your flash drive? NTFS or FAT32?
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Graffiti Exploit said:
Kitkat can still read flash drives. What did you do ash? You catch'em all with your pokeballs? Lol
What format is your flash drive? NTFS or FAT32?
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I didn't do anything ..!
My flash drive is ntfs and when i conect it to my phone it appears it connected then there is massage "usb removed safely"

ash210 said:
I didn't do anything ..!
My flash drive is ntfs and when i conect it to my phone it appears it connected then there is massage "usb removed safely"
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NTFS is not supported. Please reformat it to FAT32.
NTFS can be supported through a mod though.

Android itself has never supported NTFS drives. Only Asus Tranformer devices support NTFS via third party drivers (Because of the USB port.)
Fat32 and exFAT are supported though.
FAT32 only supports files up to a maximum of 4GB. Useless for Semi-HD and Full-HD films.
exFAT supports files up to 16EB (ExaByte) (max file size in exFAT is redundant, since there aren't any drives commercially available over 5TB. Even the collective size of the entire internet is only 5EB.)
My advice, use exFAT.

I think ROM Toolbox comes with driver called Paragon NTFS, that should work with OTG USB NTFS storage, but you need to be rooted. I think this is the only alternate option to reformatting all your external storage to exfat, which may not be practical. Or do it Apple way, transfer data between 2 devices sitting next to each other, half across the globe and back using itunes, I mean cloud, like dropbox.

Thanks guys sooooo much
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But how can i make my phone read ntfs?

[Q] USB Thumb Drive NTFS and Read Only?

Google Nexus 10
Android version 5.0.1
Build Number LRX22C
CWM 6.0.4.7
Rooted
I have just installed the Android 5.0.1 update AND purchased a 64Gb Sandisk USB/MicroUSB memory stick.
My Nexus 10 can mount the USB stick without any problem and I can see and use all the files on it but because I had to format the USB stick as NTFS all these files are now read only so I cannot delete any files from it nor can I move files from my Nexus 10 to the USB stick.
Does anyone know if there is a way to coax my Nexus 10 to be able to read AND write to my NTFS USB stick/drive?
Thanks

Hi,
AFAIK the kernel has to support NTFS writing. There are some on development section, you may want to search for it.
Good luck,
~Lord

matrixmainframe said:
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Does anyone know if there is a way to coax my Nexus 10 to be able to read AND write to my NTFS USB stick/drive?
Thanks
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I use the playstore app USB OTG Helper but you will also need to install SELinux Mode Switcher and set that to permissive mode. Despite the USB OTG Helper app displaying an error (-9) when an OTG SD reader is attached it provides the full RW access your looking for. It also provides multiple formats support beyond NTFS. I personally use Linux ext4 on all my SD cards which is also supported. It has an experimental exrFAT support but I've never used it.
There is also Stickmount but I prefer the way USB OTG Helper added the external storage to the device. It seemed to integrate with my music player better, that may be personally choice though.
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3DSammy said:
I use the playstore app USB OTG Helper but you will also need to install SELinux Mode Switcher and set that to permissive mode. Despite the USB OTG Helper app displaying an error (-9) when an OTG SD reader is attached it provides the full RW access your looking for. It also provides multiple formats support beyond NTFS. I personally use Linux ext4 on all my SD cards which is also supported. It has an experimental exrFAT support but I've never used it.
There is also Stickmount but I prefer the way USB OTG Helper added the external storage to the device. It seemed to integrate with my music player better, that may be personally choice though.
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Thanks for that. I will give both a try and see which is best for me.
Thanks again

Well I have tried both and whilst both seem to mount my USB drive and both seem to acknowledge it is mounted, when I try to delete a file which is on the USB drive using ES File Explorer I get the error message of "unsupported operation"!?

If either of the pro versions have something that the free version does not, that will get USB read/write working I will happily buy pro version but no point if not working

Hard drive shown as corrupt

Guys I am having a problem with my HP 1 TB hard drive. When I plug it in my phone using otg there is a notification saying that "your hp hard drive is corrupt, tap to fix " which takes me to a format manu.
Of all the file managers available , only es file explorer is able to read the contents but writing operations are not allowed.
The otg cable is fine because I can use all my USB drives without any problems
The HDD itself is not corrupt as I can read/write on it using my PC/laptop
Note: when I first bought the HDD it was working normally on my phone ( it was blank back then) but then I had to format it to FAT32 for it to work with my PlayStation 3, after then I again formatted it to NTFS and transferred around 200 GB of movie and series in it and here I am.
Any help is appreciated

Android does not support NTFS natively.

uicnren said:
Android does not support NTFS natively.
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Like I said when I first bought it was working fine ( I didn't check if it was NTFS but it must be because hdd's normally come as NTFS )
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I had the same issue w/SanDisk 128 dual USB. Download 2Tware's Fat32Format (CNET has it) or a similar, third-party app and format the drive in FAT32. Hopefully, that'll fix your issue as it did mine.