Wd Tv And Multi-partition External Usb Hdds Options

[sausin]

Dear All,
Can anyone clarify whether WD TV Gen 2 can read and catalog multi-partition (FAT/NTFS) external USB Hard Disk Drives. Also, how does the GUI of WD TV display the multimedia content stored in the various partitions of the same hard drive, i.e., is all the multimedia grouped or shown in separate logical drives.

[phildad]

I am wondering the same thing about Gen 1. I have 14 partitions on a 1.5TB and WDTV can only see 11 of them.

What do I need to fix this

[WDUser]

14 partitions? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) Since the Gen. 1 can see 11, I'm pretty sure that should answer sausin's query as well and the Gen. 2 should also be able to handle multiple partitions. Most probably the player will just group all the media and not show the partitions individually. As for you phildad, honestly, what do you need so many partitions for? Even if you ask WD I'm pretty sure they'll tell you to simply reduce the number of partitions, since they don't support more than that number.

[phildad]

WDUSER, thanks for the reply. It does handle multiple partitions. It lists the media folders (in the video folders view) with no reference to drive letter or partition name.

I created partitions to seperate groupings of m2ts files (ie WEEDS, MADMEN, BREAKING BAD) into their own undisturbed space, with no need to defrag this space or resize it, or have it included in the dfrag or resize of other parts.

At first, WDTV saw 12 partitions. I thought it might be counting unallocated space in its twelve count (I had two spots of unall, one at the beginning of the physical disk, one in the middle). I resized the H drive (the physical/primary) to include a block of unallocated space next to it, and after doing this, WDTV would no longer find the H drive media folders.

Now I am wondering if WDTV has some problem with free space on logical partitions.

Any further thoughts? I am loathe to merge partitions based on how long it takes Acronis.

[WDUser]

Well I really don't know the answer to that, since I've never even considered using a drive with so many partitions on it with the player. Come to think of it, I've never even had that many partitions on a single drive before, even with much larger ones than yours! You can try asking WD Support, but I'm pretty sure they'd be at a loss too. This is not a common scenario anyone's likely to test for.

As for any partition-related work, I highly recommend GParted over Acronis, although Acronis True Image is good for backups.

[Rev Drew]

14 partitions?? really?? wOw, I would never even want to do that..

no idea on how or where to begin with an answer..

1 partition and multiple folders works for the rest of us..

[sausin]

14 partitions? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) Since the Gen. 1 can see 11, I'm pretty sure that should answer sausin's query as well and the Gen. 2 should also be able to handle multiple partitions. Most probably the player will just group all the media and not show the partitions individually. As for you phildad, honestly, what do you need so many partitions for? Even if you ask WD I'm pretty sure they'll tell you to simply reduce the number of partitions, since they don't support more than that number.

Thank you for your reply, WDUser.