Hi-Fis, MP3 players and USB Hard drives

[simonalexander]

Hi,

HOw do you get a Hi-Fi, that has an external USB connection, to recognise music on an external hard drive? it can do it with a hard disk MP3 player, but not an external hard drive for some reason... what's the difference?

[Lucio]

At a guess, perhaps there's a lack of power available? It depends whether you mean external HDD or whether you mean the equivilent of a USB memory stick as they have differing power useages.

[simonalexander]

it is a Seagate 320GB external hard drive with its own power cable to mains. the Hi-Fi is a Hitachi AX-M83.

[schmunk]

Is it to do with the file system in use? FAT32 v NTFS?

[simonalexander]

OK, got it.

needed to make a 32GB partition, and format it to FAT32.

[directhex]

OK, got it.

needed to make a 32GB partition, and format it to FAT32.

fat32 is NOT limited to 32GiB. this is an artificial limit in recent versions of windows - use an alternate formatting tool and you can use the full capacity with fat32