I have four yes four WD Live boxes. However the one im currently using does not seem to be able to read my two new 4 and 5 TB external hard drives.
They are both Samsung and Seagate . 3TB is fine. I know in the past with all of these boxes I have to unplug the USB 3 cable a few times for the box to read any Hard drive. The firmware says its up to date.
Any info would be great
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Hi all. I have four yes four WD Live boxes. However the one im currently using does not seem to be able to read my two new 4 and 5 TB external hard drives.
yup well, what format are they ? what partition type are they ?
my 4TB WD HDD is recognised fine on the WDTV (Format: NTFS Partition Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
I found it was MBR under the hardware tab. It seems every external hard drive I have is MBR. Even the new ones I buy 4 and 5 Tb. Any easy way to convert them to GPT?
I have a Seagate 5TB drive. Just checked, it’s formatted as MBR and is working fine. I took it out of the box, loaded it from a Win 7 laptop, connected to the WDTV SMP and it was immediately recognised, didn’t reformat it or anything before using. There’s about 4TB already used.
No issues working on the PC using Windows 8.1…Its my WD lIve box can’t read them.
I formatted the drive and added an MKV movie on there. however the WD Live Box will not read the 4 or 5 TB drives. Must be the drive as the External drives connect fine to the PC. the partitions on an external drive is not an issue. They are mostly all MBR.