I formatted my 4tb external hard drive to exfat because I didn't want to use the paragon total commander app to access it. It worked perfectly fine but all the sudden it says it's corrupted. It still works with my computer and with total commander on the phone but not natively on android like it used to it, it only asks me to format. I did a chkdsk and it has no errors. Is there any way to fix this without formatting?
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4 TB External HDD OTG works perfect on computer but android says corrupted
- Thread starter rongump
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What File System did you use to format? As far as I can recall, Android has issues with NTFS
I know some devices do have difficulty with exFAT hard-drives, possibly depending on Android version. Also if you're using it on a Galaxy S7 phone, how are you powering the HDD, not just off the phone OTG itself or is it on external power?