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This base station will not format USB drive to use for local storage. I formatted fat32 and still says it needs to be formatted but errors out. I see there is a firmware update for vmb4000 but not the 4500?!?

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michaelkenward
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@Sporcher wrote:
This base station will not format USB drive to use for local storage.


What are you trying to format?

 

The size and type?

 

 


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I tried it on a 2TB Seagate External Drive, A 5TB Seagate External Drive and 1 TB PNY Thumb Drive ... all failed with the message: Your USB device failed to format.


@michaelkenward wrote:

@Sporcher wrote:
This base station will not format USB drive to use for local storage.


What are you trying to format?

 

The size and type?

 

 


 

StephenB
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@Sporcher wrote:

I tried it on a 2TB Seagate External Drive, A 5TB Seagate External Drive and 1 TB PNY Thumb Drive ... all failed with the message: Your USB device failed to format.

 


5 TB is not surprising - most operating system won't format drives > 2TB with FAT32.

 

What happens if you format the drives as FAT32 in a PC,  and then connect them to the base?

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