Android 4.4.2 tablet NTFS support

[Android Question]

Hello, I recently upgraded my Asus Transformer Pad TF701T from Android 4.3.x to 4.4.2 and now it does not read my 1TB external HDD which it coped with fine before.
The file system is NTFS and I have checked that my tablet can read a FAT32 thumb drive, which it does fine.
So I'm guessing there is something in 4.4.2 which prevents the OS from reading NTFS formatted usbs?
Is there a workaround for this?
When I say "doesn't read", it means that although it senses that I have plugged in a USB device, it then says that there is 0B free space and "No files" on the file manager.

Many thanks in advance for any help!

 

[xdrc45]

Hello, I recently upgraded my Asus Transformer Pad TF701T from Android 4.3.x to 4.4.2 and now it does not read my 1TB external HDD which it coped with fine before.
The file system is NTFS and I have checked that my tablet can read a FAT32 thumb drive, which it does fine.
So I'm guessing there is something in 4.4.2 which prevents the OS from reading NTFS formatted usbs?
Is there a workaround for this?
When I say "doesn't read", it means that although it senses that I have plugged in a USB device, it then says that there is 0B free space and "No files" on the file manager.

Many thanks in advance for any help!

For your Asus tablet to be able to read/write on a NTFS partition, you will need SELinux support.
Try the SELinux Mode Changer app from the playstore and see if that will work for you -
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mrbimc.selinux

 

[thomas1066]

Thanks for your quick reply.
That app does require rooting, which I am a little loathe to do as I haven't had the tablet long (although it's not out of the question, as my phone is rooted).

In the meantime, I converted the HDD into FAT32 using a 3rd party piece of software (to bypass the 32GB limit) and tried again - same thing happened. So is it the fact it is now 1TB instead?

(I thought about this, and partitioned the HDD into 2 equal halves, each then reformatted with FAT32. This also didn't work.)

So my question changes to: If there is no non-rooting workaround to getting 4.4.2 to accept NTFS, then is there a way I can "undo"/rollback the 4.4.2 update back to 4.3, which did accept NTFS..?

Thanks again.