Honda Civic USB Question

zom247 · 4 Sep 2011 at 18:21

My 2009 Civic Type S GT has a usb connection in the armrest. I have been using it with a flash drive to play music and it all works fine. I've got a WD Passport USB drive that I'd like to use but I can't get it to work. I've formatted the drive as FAT32 but it comes up as unsupported. Is the drive too big to use with the usb connection? I also tried it as NTFS but that was a no go too. I think it may be something to do with the power that the WD requires, not sure if the usb socket produces enough power to work the drive.

SoliD · 4 Sep 2011 at 18:24

The usb connection won't have enough power to boot up the drive will be the reason it won't work, if you could get power to it it may work.

ins0mn1ac · 4 Sep 2011 at 18:27

You can get an 8gb flash drive for about a fiver now, you're better off doing that rather than trying to power a portable HDD imo.

stulid · 4 Sep 2011 at 19:19

Might be the partition size.

zom247 · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:08

stulid said:
Might be the partition size.

Could be, I'm sure I've read something somewhere about FAT32 sizes being restricted to 32 GB partitions. Either that or I've had a strange dream!

Outcast · 5 Sep 2011 at 00:49

zom247 said:
Could be, I'm sure I've read something somewhere about FAT32 sizes being restricted to 32 GB partitions. Either that or I've had a strange dream!

I said that too in THIS THREAD

(I'm Civic_Outcast)

But apparently Microsoft did that deliberately to force people off FAT32 onto NTFS.

There are ways round it.

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Doh.. Just noticed you've added your comment on the bottom !!