I have a Samsung device and I want to connect an external hard drive to it with OTG but the problem is the hard drive isn't readable om my phone. I searched the internet for a solution and I found a tutorial that says I have to convert the filesystem of the hard drive from NTFS to FAT but the problem is there is no tutorial for converting NTFS to FAT (not FAT32) because FAT32 isn't readable on my Android device either. So can you please help me to make my external hard drive readable on my Android device?

I have an external media storage drive where I (*believe that I*) have formatted the partitions as 2048 kb (or 2,048 kb for any Googlers searching) cluster sizes and there are a couple of smaller clustered partitions on the same USB drive. This might be termed as 2049 kb or 2,049 kb ( or 2M / 2 M / 2MB / 2 MB ) in some places, but 2048 is the number that Windows provides when you format. I'm pretty sure that is the number that I chose when I formatted them. However, the actual number in the cluster report is 2097152 or 2,097,152 from this command: fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo [drive] **However, whenever the physical device is correctly recognised by Android operating systems, it will not recognise the large cluster partitions. Is this an Android-specific fault, or is it working as designed, and wasn't ever supposed to read clusters / file allocations of that size?** I have (I believe exhaustively) searched for answers on this (at 2048 and 2049), but as you can appreciate, I get a lot of unrelated stuff. I'm aware of how to Google well (quotes, brackets, intitles, etc), and have searched this network, too, and have not found a solution. This is a bit of a pain, is all, as it means that my drive can essentially only be used on my Windows computers, and then (I think) only a couple of them. On Android, I've tried ES File Explorer on a Shield, and CX on a Galaxy Tab S4. I can't afford the NTFS plugin for Total Commander, but I would guess it's an OS restriction, not an App one. KODI doesn't see the partitions, and I'm not sure where to go next, to be honest. I mention Linux in the title because my router (stock TP-Link Archer C1200 v2) also won't recognise the large clustered drives. I'll be testing on a Pi, later, to see if that gives me any joy, and a Mint box at my parents, when I can. Windows 10 devices have no issues with the drive, I have a VISTA box that I can test, but I have a feeling that it won't recognise the drive as I may have tested it months ago. (This post has been in draft for a *long* time. ;-) With the greatest respect (and I think Stack avoids this well, but still) let's not delve into *why* I chose NTFS or these cluster / file allocation sizes. ---------- 2 *LARGE* File size drives at this configuration *NOT* seen by Android devices: Bytes Per Sector : 512 Bytes Per Physical Sector : 4096 Bytes Per Cluster : 2097152 Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024 1 *SMALLER* File size drives at this configuration *ARE* seen by Android devices: Bytes Per Sector : 512 Bytes Per Physical Sector : 4096 Bytes Per Cluster : 32768 Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024 2 *EVEN SMALLER* File size drives at this configuration *ARE* seen by Android devices: Bytes Per Sector : 512 Bytes Per Physical Sector : 4096 Bytes Per Cluster : 4096 Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024

I have a 2 TB hard drive full of movies. I am getting bored watching movies on the computer so I decided buy a Samsung Galaxy Tab. My hard drive is NTFS and my friends told me that I have to convert NTFS to exFAT to able to see my files on the tablet. My question is, if I convert my hard drive from NTFS to exFAT, will I be able to watch the files on the tablet? If not, what should I do to be able to do so?

I have a Chuwi hi10 plus. It is a dual boot windows 10 / android 5.0 tablet that I put on TWRP 3.0.2 rooted it and a custom Lineage OS Marshmallow 6.0.1 ROM on from Konstakang.com Chuwi tablets have a funky inability to boot from USB because have a UEFI boot system.... I need to change the Windows password and there is a sticky keys method to copy cmd.exe over sethc.exe and then use the net user command once the command prompt is opened. I have installed termux and updated the packages and installed tsu for true root access to the filesystem. But . . . the termux mount does not produce a string of its version from mount -V and while mount -t ntfs /dev/block /mnt/xxx command does not give an error - where I have done a mkdir /mnt/xxx it does claim "no such device". I have used the exact device I know is the windows partition which is ntfs from a "cat /proc/partitions" command "ntfs-3g" does not recognize as a command at all, and I even tried the mount_nfsd_fuse setup from https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/guide-mount-internal-windows-partition-t2978679 It must need a touch or something because the file is in /system/xbin but says command not found even invoked as root from that directory The kernel was compiled from source for the ROM by Konstakang so I do not know if ntfs support is in it ... is there a way to check and / or does anyone have a suggestion how to get that partition mounted rw as ntfs internally ??? The Paragon Ntfs rw mounter that is supposed to work with Total Commander has not appeared to operate as pics show it or once did

I'm trying to use Galaxy S4 as a video camera for recording offline usergroups. Apart from whether it's a good idea, it's generally succeeding, but there are some critical problems: - Android file system does not support files larger than 4GB. At 1280x720 resolution, this is about 40-something minutes, which is sometimes less than what I typically need (some sessions take 60+ minutes), which causes a sudden video stop, and if I'm conscious enough, I press the recording again, and lose about a minute or less in between. I'm thinking this problem might be solved by rooting the phone and buying one of the programs that allow mounting NTFS for Android, formatting an SD card as NTFS as well. Would you expect this to work? Any luck with any of this programs and recording to memory card? - Sometimes the phone blurs the text it records and afterwards the text becomes clear again. Sometimes this happens quite often that it becomes annoying to anyone watching the video. I have tried disabling video stabilization but this doesn't seem to improve it much. It still insists on blurring text at random times. It probably is trying to help me with some autofocus thing, but it's only doing harm. I'm short of ideas for this one. Anyone managed to stop it? Not sure if this should be split into 2 questions, but would appreciate help on either anyway. Thanks a lot.

I have a physically small but digitally large (128GB) USB key on my keychain. Unfortunately since I intend to use it for Easy2Boot and to support large video files, it must not be FAT32. I know that with FAT32 everything would be easy. Now, since I have >4GB ISO files and video files on here which necessitates the use of NTFS, since Easy2Boot doesn't support exFAT, I was hoping that I could use Total Commander and the Paragon NTFS plugin for it to "stream" and watch my video files in VLC or some such. That way I can place any file I could otherwise watch on my PC or Mac onto the drive to take these files on a trip for instance. However Total Commander does not provide an "Open With VLC" option, and VLC is not able to see the "mounted" NTFS partition because it does not have an NTFS plugin. So I am completely stuck here. My Android-fu is lacking... I'm usually an iOS user but this USB OTG storage media leaves Android as my only choice ;) What are my options? Will my problem be elegantly solved if I root my Nexus 7 (2013 model) and install some NTFS drivers? Are there any other solutions that I can pursue without rooting? I would consider the approach of "downloading" the file to local disk to play the video as a non-solution because video files could exceed the total storage capacity of the device (e.g. 20GB mkv file).

If I format my micro SD card as NTFS, will my phone see it? I need this because I want to transfer files larger than 4GB on my phone microSD card, but FAT32 allows just files up to 4GB.

I would like to enjoy of NTFS support for my Android device. The USB-OTG Helper app and also this patch - sdcardfs.ko couldn't help with that. With regard the patch sdcardfs.ko, I have done all the given instructions successfully, but when I do su -c "insmod /system/lib/modules/sdcardfs.ko", I get error Invalid argument. I would happy about this method if it worked for me. So, it will be great if you know how I can fix this error. My device configurations are as bellow: - Device model: HUAWEI G630-u10 - Android version: 4.3 - Kernel version: 3.4.0+ (Stock Rom) - Device is Locked - Device is rooted by KingRoot app Other solutions available but not interested: - Paragon USB plugin for Total Commander (I am not interested in this method because I want NTFS support to the Android kernel so that I can access NTFS-formatted sdcards from within my favorite file manager. - Paragon exFAT, NTFS, HFS+ and Ntfs Mounter - 'Play Store' knows these apps incompatible with my device. So, I cannot use these methods too. Appreciate if you help to fix the problem using sdcardfs.ko patch as already mentioned above or introduce me other alternatives. **Update:** As a new try, I unlocked my device bootloader, installed TWRT and SuperSU (instead of using KingRoot method); but I'm still getting error Invalid argument when trying to load the sdcardfs.ko. So, my device configuration has changed to: - Device is Unlocked - Device is rooted - SuperSU installed. Check out the dmesg .

I need to mount 2TB SeaGate external HD to my Galaxy S4 LTE, and I'm using Paragon NTFS for that. The app worked when I was still using EchoeROM. I recently switched to Paranoid 4.4.4 and now this app won't work. Is there any way to make it work again?

Every time I find a thread on the Internet describing "how to get your 64GB SD card to work with Cyanogenmod", the answer is always the same: format it to FAT32. FAT32 does not support files larger than 4GB. Does Cyanogenmod (10.1) support a decent file system that can take files larger than that?

I have a Huawei u8160 running Cyanogenmod 7.2 . I've recently been testing things on my recently activated OTG I've tried to connect a USB Portable HDD, However when I connect the HDD the LED flashes like it's reading/writing , dmesg notices it : [12, khubd] [10776.834610] usb 1-1.4: new full speed USB device using msm_hsusb_host and address 40 [12, khubd] [10777.015514] usb 1-1.4: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub [12, khubd] [10777.018517] usb 1-1.4: default language 0x0409 [12, khubd] [10777.021505] usb 1-1.4: udev 40, busnum 1, minor = 39 [12, khubd] [10777.021544] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=174c, idProduct=5106 [12, khubd] [10777.021567] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 [12, khubd] [10777.021589] usb 1-1.4: Product: StoreJet Transcend [12, khubd] [10777.021607] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: StoreJet Transcend [12, khubd] [10777.021624] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: WD-WXF1E32VNMN1 [12, khubd] [10777.022149] usb 1-1.4: uevent done. that is what dmesg says directly after connecting. and when I write lsusb on terminal emulator it returns : Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Bus 001 Device 041: ID 058f:9254 Bus 001 Device 042: ID 174c:5106 one of them is always there,and another one is the USB Hub ,and another is the USB HDD I already successfully mounted an NTFS Flash Drive (Fromatted using Minitool partition wizard ,mounted using Paragon NTFS&HFS+ ) then the problem isn't the File System ---------- **EDIT :** Error when trying to mount USB flash drive that is NTFS formatted : mount: mounting /dev/block/uba1 on /sdcard/data failed: Invalid argument Error when trying to mount NTFS formatted portable HDD : mount: mounting /dev/block/uba on /sdcard/data failed: No medium found that means that the error in the HDD isn't with the NTFS file system. ---------- **EDIT #2:** I've tried this method but when I try to mount it it gives me this error : Failed to mount '/dev/block/uba': No medium found

I have a Huawei u8160 running Cyanogenmod 7.2 . I have been looking for the fuse.ko module for my phone, but whenever I find anything ,terminal emulator tells me that it is incompatible! I want it to enable NTFS file system support using this tutorial So I was wondering where I can find the appropriate fuse.ko module? **NOTE :** I've already seen this link but I don't think that's what I want.