My wd live cant read external ntfs hard disk

KrisR wrote:

It could be something about the way you’re formatting the NTFS drives that’s causing the malfunction.

Doubtful. My drives have various partition sizes and where formatted from inside Windows and Ubuntu, none of which made any difference.

JoeySmyth wrote:
So, no … it doesn’t " ignore" them. It scans them like any other file, but after that,of course, it won’t "display " them.

 

Which i why i isolate files the Hub won’t display, by putting them into a folder with a “dot” prefix which 100% prevents unnecessary scanning of non supported files.

Yeah, I’ve been doing this pretty much since day one too. I just wasn’t sure how smart WD’s scanning algorithm was.