Help portable hard drive connection

[staycaptivejake]

so i bought this hard drive Canvio® Basics 3.0 Portable External USB Hard Drives | Toshiba and i cant connect it to my galaxy tab 2! it says high powered hard drive connected when connected with the OTG. i specifically bought a HD without a power supply to hook up to my tablet. How do i go about getting this to work? Im scared to root cus i dont wanna ruin my tablet. i just wanna be able to put all my music on it since, for some reason, no sd card over 32gb will work.

 

[hkmk23]

I have just tried to connect my external WD usb portable drive to a powered usb2 hub and plugged in my TaB2 with no way at all of seeing the hd as a result, so that will not work. Without an external pc I do not think there is any way to increase the available memory.

 

[staycaptivejake]

well ive read a few posts that have said its possible but all steer towards rooting the tablet. I saw one that said something about using a powered usb source but i dont think this HD can do that. i thought about getting a large thumb drive but ive heard some people say that it doesnt work right either when you get into the larger sizes. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR this is quite upsetting.

 

[Pugs1957]

You need to make sure the HDD is formatted to FAT32 as NTFS cannot be read by Android devices

 

[staycaptivejake]

yes it is. i actually just got it to work. i had an extra usb y cable lying around and i cut and taped a female usb to the single side. connect the cable from the HDD to the y cable then into the OTG and the other into a usb car charger. works great.

 

[txrose72]

You can also use a powered USB hub. I works well for me.

 

[staycaptivejake]

is there such thing as a portable powered usb hub? like one thats self powered.