Dingo Posted August 20, 2011 Report Share Posted August 20, 2011 So myfordtouch likes my ipods and likes flash drives, but hates my Samsung 500GB hard drive. Anyone get one to work? If so, I wonder what the difference is... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted August 20, 2011 Report Share Posted August 20, 2011 So myfordtouch likes my ipods and likes flash drives, but hates my Samsung 500GB hard drive. Anyone get one to work? If so, I wonder what the difference is... Could be power - does it work off the home computer's USB interface only? I think it also has to be FAT32. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingo Posted August 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2011 Maybe the FAT32 is it... It's NTFS right now. I bought it just to be a big CD changer, and it only needs a single USB for power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingo Posted August 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2011 Just spent 3ish hours fat32ing it and copying and tagging, to have my pretty little touchscreen say that my USB device isn't supported. Kill me now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seabee78 Posted August 20, 2011 Report Share Posted August 20, 2011 That's a bummer, Dingo. I'm having the same problem with my TV at home. It can see my iPod and any flash drive but no HDD (even with FAT32) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted August 20, 2011 Report Share Posted August 20, 2011 Check the other sync forums (syncmyride.com, fordsyncforum.com). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NatG Posted August 23, 2011 Report Share Posted August 23, 2011 NTFS will not work with Sync (MFT) on my 2011 Edge. Had to use FAT32. Everything was cherry after the formatting change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal3thousand Posted August 23, 2011 Report Share Posted August 23, 2011 Another member from the middle east did it (Abu Dhabi, iirc?) He told me FAT32 and all files in the root of the drive (i.e. not in folders) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferneyhough Posted August 23, 2011 Report Share Posted August 23, 2011 I have a adata 500gb portable HDD drive model # superior SH93 it works just fine not to mention it's shock proof & water proof & it's windows 7 compliant. I'm plugging it into my 2011 edge sel & it reads it very fast not to mention so far I have over 75gb of mp3 music files on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal3thousand Posted August 23, 2011 Report Share Posted August 23, 2011 I have a adata 500gb portable HDD drive model # superior SH93 it works just fine not to mention it's shock proof & water proof & it's windows 7 compliant. I'm plugging it into my 2011 edge sel & it reads it very fast not to mention so far I have over 75gb of mp3 music files on it Would you mind confirming your File System type and folder structure? and 75GB ? really? is that all Lossless encoding? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlepse Posted August 25, 2011 Report Share Posted August 25, 2011 Started testing this out myself and found NTFS is no good as well. Then reformatted to exFAT or something like that and it worked fine. My file structure is artist/album/song. I am going to try a few other drives to see if it makes a difference with different manufacturers and capacities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferneyhough Posted August 25, 2011 Report Share Posted August 25, 2011 Would you mind confirming your File System type and folder structure? and 75GB ? really? is that all Lossless encoding? I'm just getting home from work & I'm off to bed , if I have time tonight I will let you all know if not tomorrow for sure, sorry for the delay. Also all the files are 320kbps, they are 1 level away from a wave file, if you know about ripping music you will understand the lingo I'm talking about 1 last thing I should mention, I had nermourious problems with an alpine deck in my old car, it was a media deck so it had no cd in it & the problem I had was the usb 2.0 cable was too short & the cable extension I had running off of it could not read anything past 16gb whether it be a flash drive or portable hdd drive I found this out the day I was removing the deck because I sold the car the purchase my edge . it's something to think about for all the people having problems with some form of hard drive issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlepse Posted August 25, 2011 Report Share Posted August 25, 2011 One other thing to check out is the power consumption of the drive. Older HDD can use 3-4x's the power of newer drives and sometimes require additional power. You can purchase USB cables with two connectors so that you can utilize the power supply from both ports to spin the disk up. Niether of the drives I tried needed the extra power but somethig to consider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlepse Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 Well last night I hooked up a Western Digital portable drive formatted exFAT with ~55GB of music. It took about 10 minutes for the system to completely index the drive but it shows up and plays fine. I can search through the disk by artist/album/genre etc without any issues, well some lag but that is part of the MFT experience. I think I still have some more I need to load up and I will spend some time to get the ID3 tags set up so genre searches are useful. But as stated above my music is setup artist/album/song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferneyhough Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 I'm just getting home from work & I'm off to bed , if I have time tonight I will let you all know if not tomorrow for sure, sorry for the delay. Also all the files are 320kbps, they are 1 level away from a wave file, if you know about ripping music you will understand the lingo I'm talking about 1 last thing I should mention, I had nermourious problems with an alpine deck in my old car, it was a media deck so it had no cd in it & the problem I had was the usb 2.0 cable was too short & the cable extension I had running off of it could not read anything past 16gb whether it be a flash drive or portable hdd drive I found this out the day I was removing the deck because I sold the car the purchase my edge . it's something to think about for all the people having problems with some form of hard drive issue. It is a FAT32 drive format & it comes up art,song,album, in the folder. Hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingo Posted August 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 I have a new hard drive arriving shortly today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingo Posted August 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 Yay! It works! After reading ferneyhough's post, I decided I just had to have a waterproof and dropproof drive. I found the same one in 750GB, exFATed it, and it works great. I also figured out the problem with the last drive. It was USB 3.0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlepse Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 I also figured out the problem with the last drive. It was USB 3.0. Really? I would have thought it would just throttle itself back to 2.0 or whatever was supported. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingo Posted August 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 Nope. I tried 3, but they were all usb 3.0 before this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlepse Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 Good to know. The drive I am using now is a little flaky so I was going to be watching for a back up...now I know not to get 3.0. But that works out better since I can probably get a 2.0 on close out dirt cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingo Posted August 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 Here's the one I got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferneyhough Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 (edited) Yay! It works! After reading ferneyhough's post, I decided I just had to have a waterproof and dropproof drive. I found the same one in 750GB, exFATed it, and it works great. I also figured out the problem with the last drive. It was USB 3.0. Glad I could help & besides having the extra comfort of being shockproof & water proof for no extra cost - PRICELESS lol Edited August 27, 2011 by ferneyhough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinzII Posted December 23, 2012 Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 .....is formatting a WD 120 gig drive to exFAT (previously ntfs) and will try hooking it up again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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