Hello

 

I'm trying to use a 500Mb portable hard disk (Toshiba Essentials)on a Bolero system and keep getting the message 'unable to read usb data medium'.  

 

I have formatted the drive in exFAT system which, according to the manual should work.  

 

If anyone knows how to fix it, I'd be most grateful.  Thanks.

have you tried FAT32?

have you tried FAT32?

 

No, the pc won't let me. Apparently the drive is too big for FAT32. I might try to partition the drive into smaller chunks and put each into FAT32 though so thanks for that.

500Mb should be fine on FAT32 as the limit is supposed to be 32GB

 

500GB on the other hand.......... oh ok, apparently that is possible too, with some tools:

 

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/format-fat32-drives-beyond-32gb-limit/

 

 

However, it is possible that the USB port is not providing enough power to drive the HDD. I tried a HDD on my MDI setup, the disc would do the "spin and click" routine. A different caddy, with the same disk, worked fine though.

I had the same error message when using a usb stick of 8GB formatted NTFS. After re-format it with FAT32 file system it worked great.

My media system is a Bolero MIB1

The USB socket only supplies the minimum current. My MIB1 Bolero has real problems reading files off a thumb drive often it will get a few minutes in then freeze up, skip tracks and then pretend the drive isn't there anymore.