hard drive, flash drive

[mrcrown89 0]

yes hello everyone i just have a quick question i have a new soundstream cd dvd player with usb port my question is can i hook up my portable hardrive to it or does it have to be formatted fat 32 its a 55 gb portable hard drive .Thanks for all of your help

[altoncustomtech 773]

The partition on the HDD would have to be FAT, 16 or 32 wouldn't matter. The players won't read NTFS or any other type.

[mrcrown89 0]

yes hello everyone i just have a quick question i have a new soundstream cd dvd player with usb port my question is can i hook up my portable hardrive to it or does it have to be formatted fat 32 its a 55 gb portable hard drive .Thanks for all of your help

ok thanks so my next question is how do i partion it i new to this or get it to fat32 like my 4g flash drive my whole goal is to make the portable hd do what the flash drive is doing and addind more songs and movies. Thanks

[ulrisa 26]

yes hello everyone i just have a quick question i have a new soundstream cd dvd player with usb port my question is can i hook up my portable hardrive to it or does it have to be formatted fat 32 its a 55 gb portable hard drive .Thanks for all of your help

ok thanks so my next question is how do i partion it i new to this or get it to fat32 like my 4g flash drive my whole goal is to make the portable hd do what the flash drive is doing and addind more songs and movies. Thanks

In Windows, right click the drive (make sure it's the right one!) and select format. You should be able to select FAT 32 under file system. This will erase all of the data on the drive so if there is anything you want on it, make sure to copy the files from the portable hard drive before you format it.

[mrcrown89 0]

thanks so its that how you partion it or is that something different because i did format it to fat32 but its not reading the hardrive. So if there anything im doing wrong please let me know it wont even read my 4g flash drive but it will my 2g flash drive. thanks

[altoncustomtech 773]

??? that's weird.... I've never played with my external HDD but my Kenwood's can read every thumb drive I have as long as they've got music on them.....

[ulrisa 26]

thanks so its that how you partion it or is that something different because i did format it to fat32 but its not reading the hardrive. So if there anything im doing wrong please let me know it wont even read my 4g flash drive but it will my 2g flash drive. thanks

It's possible that the interface is limited to 2 or 3 gb. That would explain why your 4 gb and hard drive wouldn't work, but your 2 gb would. Check the file system of the 2 gb flash drive and see if it is different than the 4 gb or the hard drive. Also, list your head unit and maybe I can look it up for you.

[mrcrown89 0]

??? that's weird.... I've never played with my external HDD but my Kenwood's can read every thumb drive I have as long as they've got music on them.....

what size thumb drive are you useing is it more than 4gb. Thanks

[altoncustomtech 773]

Before I got the IPOD I was using 2g, 4g, 8g and even one 16g all with no issues. Give us the model # on that player so we can look up some info on it. There's something different going on if it can read the 2g fine and not the 4g let alone the HDD. Like ulrisa said, it may have a 2g size limitation.

[mrcrown89 0]

thanks so its that how you partion it or is that something different because i did format it to fat32 but its not reading the hardrive. So if there anything im doing wrong please let me know it wont even read my 4g flash drive but it will my 2g flash drive. thanks

It's possible that the interface is limited to 2 or 3 gb. That would explain why your 4 gb and hard drive wouldn't work, but your 2 gb would. Check the file system of the 2 gb flash drive and see if it is different than the 4 gb or the hard drive. Also, list your head unit and maybe I can look it up for you.

thanks the unit is soundstream model number is vir-70llnt .Thanks for all your help

[mrcrown89 0]

thanks so its that how you partion it or is that something different because i did format it to fat32 but its not reading the hardrive. So if there anything im doing wrong please let me know it wont even read my 4g flash drive but it will my 2g flash drive. thanks

It's possible that the interface is limited to 2 or 3 gb. That would explain why your 4 gb and hard drive wouldn't work, but your 2 gb would. Check the file system of the 2 gb flash drive and see if it is different than the 4 gb or the hard drive. Also, list your head unit and maybe I can look it up for you.

thanks the unit is soundstream model number is vir-70llnt .Thanks for all your help

yes i gave you the model number for the soundstream its above. thanks

[ulrisa 26]

Well I looked it up but I couldn't really find any information. I did see that the sd card adapter was limited to 4 gb, which might mean that 4 gb is the limitation of the usb port. One possible solution (kind of) would to get multiple flash drives/sd cards. Hope this helps.

[mrcrown89 0]

Well I looked it up but I couldn't really find any information. I did see that the sd card adapter was limited to 4 gb, which might mean that 4 gb is the limitation of the usb port. One possible solution (kind of) would to get multiple flash drives/sd cards. Hope this helps.

thanks

[mrcrown89 0]

Well I looked it up but I couldn't really find any information. I did see that the sd card adapter was limited to 4 gb, which might mean that 4 gb is the limitation of the usb port. One possible solution (kind of) would to get multiple flash drives/sd cards. Hope this helps.

thanks

Thanks for all the hard work and info what kind of head unit do you have that accepted 8gb and 16gbs. Thanks

[altoncustomtech 773]

Kenwood Excelon series HU's. One is a KDC-X991 the other is a KDC-X492, both read the same thumbs before the IPod.

[Julian 641]

Typically microsoft won't format drives over ~ 10 gb so you have to do a command line google how to format Hdd using cmd

[deernet 6]

Well I looked it up but I couldn't really find any information. I did see that the sd card adapter was limited to 4 gb, which might mean that 4 gb is the limitation of the usb port. One possible solution (kind of) would to get multiple flash drives/sd cards. Hope this helps.

thanks

Thanks for all the hard work and info what kind of head unit do you have that accepted 8gb and 16gbs. Thanks

If you do end up getting another HU, I love my Alpine CDA-105 for its external hard drive/flash drive, and iPod capabilities. I think I'm fixing to switch to one of the Pioneer DVD players though.

[Julian 641]

I love my alpine ida-x 200 works great.

[gadgeteer123 21]

Ya kenwood excelon series are excellent head-units. Ive had two already and both have served me well, They have A+++++ sound quality and plenty of features, there only down fall is there menus for the advanced features is something you would have to pull over to change, and they are a little pricey, but either way they are great. pioneers are good to but I like the kenwood excelon x990 x991 just because they go all out at it. If money isn't a issue x990 is good. x991 is a little overkill even though I own one.