I have been working to get my external HDD detected on my rooted FireTV 4K for the past 3 1/2 hours now.
I have tried every suggestion/tutorial I could find on google. I tried ParagonNTFS, Stickmount, I even tried the adbLink mount tools, also was going to try the BusyMount things out but the main websites download link is broken and google came up empty.
Nothing has worked..
It's a 1TB NTFS External HDD..
I plug it in the ExHDD light comes on and no matter what I do or attempt it simply will not detect that I have an external HDD plugged in to this thing..
I tested a couple small thumb drives on FAT32 & NTFS and they all worked fine, are there any other solutions to getting a external HDD detected ??
I mean.. I didn't want to use the FAT32 FS so I rooted only to find out that it's not detecting the NTFS lol..
PS : Just tried my main external HDD on FAT32 instead of NTFS and it's still is not detected... Looks like some external HDD's are not "compatible" with the FireTV :/ fml.
PSS : Tried exFAT still nothing, I see no errors when plugging in the 1TB external HDD either. it gives absolutely no notification as to detecting the external drive, could this be because my external HDD does not have it's own power cord ??
well what i here is that the fire tv port don't have enough power to run an External HDD. it need it own external power hub . check aftnews for more info. and also checkout this link and post #7 for more instruction.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/help/accessing-ntfs-drive-via-fire-tv-4k-t3305188
Fire OS: 5.2.7.6 (659654620) - sloane rom
Apps: Total Commander, ES File Manager, Kodi
Hard Drive: Passport 2TB
About a week ago, I was running 5.2.1.1 for a few years and with Paragon NTFS+ and didnt have any issues. I removed my Passport drive and then updated it with content and plugged it back into my USB powered hub and my Fire TV2 didnt see the drive. Its happened like this once before and a simple disconnect and reconnect fixed the issue but not this time. I have uninstalled a number of different Paragon NTFS apps (from plugins, to different versions), Stick Mount 3.50, NTFS Mounter, and my FireTV2 no longer sees the drive. I thought I would upgrade the ROM on my FireTV2 and have done this as now I am on the above rom and the same issue is happening. The OS does indicate the drive isnt FAT32 so its seeing the drive but not mounting it despite installing these different apps.
I have enjoyed the Fire TV2 for a number of years with no issues and for the life of me, cant get it to read NTFS external drives.
I have tested the drive in my desktop and laptop, both see the drive without any issues. I have tried different ports on the USB hub and nothing is working. The same hub can read FAT32 without any issues but I have files that are 10GB+ and require NTFS. I have reformatted the drive and copied content over again, ran disk defrag on the drive and the Fire TV2 for whatever reason isnt working.
If anyone has any suggestions, I am all ears...
hello guys I'll explain the problem: I have a small usb hub where I connect the fire stick and a pendrive. I formatted the pendrive in FAT32 and it works fine, the problem is that when I remove it and connect it to the PC it is seen as an unformatted volume and is not detected by windows, I have to reformat every time.
I therefore assume that the fire stick does some operation on the pendrive.
Do you have the solution?
Thank you
Are you formatting the flash drive with your PC or FireTV?
If the FireTV formats the flash drive for internal storage (Android apps), it uses Ext4 which a PC won't natively recognize.
Finnzz said:
Are you formatting the flash drive with your PC or FireTV?
If the FireTV formats the flash drive for internal storage (Android apps), it uses Ext4 which a PC won't natively recognize.
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Thx for replay.
format from pc, I use the pendrive in firestick with retroarch, an old console emulator, it may be that retroarch when it scans the pendrrive in search of games does some operation, but certainly does not delete the files I put inside. Opening ES File Explorer on the Firestick recognizes the pendrive, but inside there is a .Android folder and then the files I put.
killer0007 said:
Thx for replay.
format from pc, I use the pendrive in firestick with retroarch, an old console emulator, it may be that retroarch when it scans the pendrrive in search of games does some operation, but certainly does not delete the files I put inside. Opening ES File Explorer on the Firestick recognizes the pendrive, but inside there is a .Android folder and then the files I put.
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When you FAT32 format the drive, are you using 4096bytes allocation unit size. I have noticed that using some higher values causes issues.
Other than that I'm not sure. Is the flash drive only unreadable in your PC after using it with RetroArch, ES Explorer, or anytime you plug it in to the Fire Stick?
Finnzz said:
Other than that I'm not sure. Is the flash drive only unreadable in your PC after using it with RetroArch, ES Explorer, or anytime you plug it in to the Fire Stick?
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unreadable anytime i plug it into the Fire Stick, Just connect the pendrive to the firestick and without doing any operation, I disconnect it and it is already unreadable
That's odd. Does it make a difference if you FAT32 format the drive with the Fire Stick instead of the PC?
Plug a non-FAT32 drive (eg exFAT) in to the FireStick, a pop-up will ask you to format the drive, select format for external storage.
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That's odd. Does it make a difference if you FAT32 format the drive with the Fire Stick instead of the PC?
Plug a non-FAT32 drive (eg exFAT) in to the FireStick, a pop-up will ask you to format the drive, select format for external storage.
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yes, this way everything works fine, you need to format the pendrive from firestick. Thank you very much
Hello everyone!
I’m having an issue while using the remote ADB shell to partition my storage. It’s creating the partition for the external storage but not for the internal. I am doing an 80/20 split on a 1TB Samsung SSD connected via an OTG cable to my Fire TV Cube running on the latest software update. When checking the partition in the ADB shell using the “df -h” command, it shows the 800GB partition for the external but the additional 200GB for the internal is not there. Does anyone have any idea as to what is happening?
If any more information is required just let me know.
EDIT: I plugged the drive into my PC and it is showing the second 200GB partition. It’s just not showing on the Fire TV for some reason..
So I have 2 different USB drives that I am using with my 4K fire stick. I formated to Fat32 using my PC but they were not recognized. Turned the stick off for 5 minutes the fire stick recognized the USB stick as far as formatting it but it doesn't show any increasdd storage.