Portable hard drive problem in car
 

are you using a flash drive or a portable hard drive?

Portable hard drive

thats your problem.......

cant use a portable hd like a wd passport or something like that.

u need to use a flash drive.

go to micro center or radio shack and grab a 4gb or 8gb flash drive

The drive probably has to be formatted in FAT or FAT32 to be detected.

But I wouldn't want a spinning hard drive in my car though, it'd get wrecked pretty quick.

Better off with a large flash drive, or go with an SSD if cost isn't a factor.

even those larger ones can be formatted to FAT (though the limit i think is 1.5 tb or something like that)

But like he stated, stick to flash media.

yep hard drive will break

I have a 1.5tb WD passport hooked up in my FRS for almost a year with no problems.

He is right on that one it mostly likely needs to be reformated to a Fat32. Some devices cannot be detected if they are over a certain about of Gbs.

I understand that all the vibrations/bumps aren't good for the hard drive...but I've been using the same ipod classic (80gb hard drive) in my cars for at least 5 years now...however i just got the 2013 bespoke radio and it's having problems staying connected (probably the radio though)

maybe it's time to switch to a wd passport that i have laying around

Which bespoke do you have? The early one with zypr or the newer one with aha?

The first one with zypr

ok so i was wrong... you just need to reformat the drive.....

I have a 1tb...how did you connect it? I have it formatted to exFat and connected directly to the USB port and getting nothing. Do I need another power source for the drive?


Thanks!