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This works. Wd TV HD Player will not read a 3tb drive not even a wd. The solution is to partition the drive to 2 parts at 1.5 tb ea or in 3 parts at 1tb each.his way the player will read the partions separately.  I’ve tried it and guess what? It worked!

Hi, I think if you update to the latest firmware it should recognize the 3TB. 

Franco.58 wrote:

This works. Wd TV HD Player will not read a 3tb drive not even a wd. The solution is to partition the drive to 2 parts at 1.5 tb ea or in 3 parts at 1tb each.his way the player will read the partions separately.  I’ve tried it and guess what? It worked!

That’s correct.  The old WDTV HD boxes don’t support 3TB GPT’d drives. 

This is discussed multiple times in the forum for this device.

(BTW, this forum is for the WDTV Live and Live+, not the WDTV HD.   That forum is here.)

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