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Hi everyone, I figured I would contribute to the forum and share my experience with trying to play MP3's off a hard drive through the USB port. The hard drive that I decided to get is a 1.8" external hard drive that I bought on Amazon called Xigmatek Lighter 60 GB. It fits nicely in the front of the armrest storage compartment.
The first thing that I noticed and should have known is that the hard drive must be formated in fat32 and since the hard drive I got is 60GB I had to partition the hard drive to 32GB in order to format it to fat32. It is very easy to partition the hard drive if you have Windows 7 or Vista, just hit the start button and on the bottom you will see search and search for partition. Using that program you will be able to partition and format the hard drive.
After the hard drive is set up as fat32 you are ready to add music. I have mine set up with folder hierarchies such as rock, rap/r&b and various artist. Then inside those folders are folders for each artist and then the albums inside the artist folder, that way I can browse through my music using folder view on the car. The first time you connect the hard drive the car will read usb indexing for a while and you will not be able to access all the folders at first. After the initial indexing the car will still index each time the car starts for about 5 minutes, at least it does for me. While indexing you can still access some of the music by selecting folder view.
I have not tried using a 2.5" hard drive in the car to see if it works, maybe someone else can verify that. I am sure that some of this has already been said a few times over a few post but I wanted to create a post that should hopefully answer anyones questions that they may have.
The first thing that I noticed and should have known is that the hard drive must be formated in fat32 and since the hard drive I got is 60GB I had to partition the hard drive to 32GB in order to format it to fat32. It is very easy to partition the hard drive if you have Windows 7 or Vista, just hit the start button and on the bottom you will see search and search for partition. Using that program you will be able to partition and format the hard drive.
After the hard drive is set up as fat32 you are ready to add music. I have mine set up with folder hierarchies such as rock, rap/r&b and various artist. Then inside those folders are folders for each artist and then the albums inside the artist folder, that way I can browse through my music using folder view on the car. The first time you connect the hard drive the car will read usb indexing for a while and you will not be able to access all the folders at first. After the initial indexing the car will still index each time the car starts for about 5 minutes, at least it does for me. While indexing you can still access some of the music by selecting folder view.
I have not tried using a 2.5" hard drive in the car to see if it works, maybe someone else can verify that. I am sure that some of this has already been said a few times over a few post but I wanted to create a post that should hopefully answer anyones questions that they may have.