Wdtv gen 1 not reading my book 4tb drive

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my gen 1 wdtv not recongizing my book 4tb drive. made smaller partitions ,fomatted  and still doesn’t read it. Any ideas?

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WDTV does not read ExFAT. Did you use NTFS?

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Also, what size are your partitions ?   WDTV Gen 1 only supports a Max of  2TB

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WDTV GEN1 also does not support GPT partitions.  So I think you’re out of luck doing MBR on a 4TB disk?

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TonyPh12345 wrote:

WDTV GEN1 also does not support GPT partitions.  So I think you’re out of luck doing MBR on a 4TB disk?

On the 4TB, just create 2x 2TB partitions and convert GPT to MBR

i used AOMEI Partition Assistant ¶ Standard Edition to convert GPT to MBR a while ago… works great, doesent delete any data on the HDD

http://www.disk-partition.com/free-partition-manager.html

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Consider purchasing a “Newer” device eg. WDTV Live Streaming, WDTV Personal Media Player or even a WDTV Live Hub

I can only speak from personal experience… my WDTV Live Hub sees my 3TB My Book and 3TB Elements HDD fine.

A few people have reported 4TB drives working on the newer devices (but i can’t verify this, without owning one)