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Time Capsule - Hard Drive not recognised

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GollumBoy

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Had the Time Capsule a little while now, I always connect another HD into it to expand the 500GB internal, the following I have tried:

WD 320GB portable HD (MS-DOS Fat 32) works
WD 1TB Desktop HD (MS-DOS Fat 32) works

IOMEGA 1.5TB Desktop HD (MS-DOS Fat 32) doesn't work!

Is the hard drive size too big? Or some other issue?
It was originally NTFS, but formatted as FAT32 via disk utility to work with Windows and Mac.

Any reason why this might not work or firmware issue which Apple needs a suggestion to fix?
 
Try formatting the drive as HFS+. Once connected to the Time Capsule, the hard drive will be accessible by Mac and Windows. Formatting it as HFS+ is not an issue in Windows as the Time Capsule acts as a server allowing full read/write access by both platforms.
 
skorpien said:
Try formatting the drive as HFS+. Once connected to the Time Capsule, the hard drive will be accessible by Mac and Windows. Formatting it as HFS+ is not an issue in Windows as the Time Capsule acts as a server allowing full read/write access by both platforms.
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I think I tried that, I'll try again.

Edit: still doesn't - the partition map is GUID, or apple partition still don't work. Tried partitioning incase it didn't like one big partition = no.
The time capsule stores no logs of it, even an error messages once being plugged in. The drive whirs softly as if its connected to something however.

A reinstall of capsule maybe needed?
 
skorpien said:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2188758&tstart=0

This thread may have an answer, but other than that I'm afraid I can't be of much help. It seems that Iomega is known to give problems when trying to use it attached to an AirPort router.
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Tried everything from there - that is more for Airport Extreme though.

In the end I took it back and bought a 2TB WD which works wonders 🙂

Tip: Iomega is not a good choice for Time Capsule - WD is 🙂
 
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