USB OTG wants me to reformat my drive??

[The Torrent]

got a 1tb drive into a sata interface into an otg converter into my phone.

 

Firstly, let me mention i have ran chkdsk on my pc, and my drive works completely fine on my pc.

 

My phone says i need to reformat it before i can use it because its corrupted???? thats annoying.... 

 

How do i fix this? i dont wanna reformat it of course because theres too much stuff on there.

 

Also i should mention, theres actually another partition on the drive (because it originally had windows on it and idk how to remove the partition) of about 20gb and that partition actually can be detected and works fine (i have no data stored on there tho).

[Atessin4]

Android doesn't support ntfs. Copy files, reformat your disk to fat32 or exfat and try again.

[archiso]

6 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

got a 1tb drive into a sata interface into an otg converter into my phone.

 

Firstly, let me mention i have ran chkdsk on my pc, and my drive works completely fine on my pc.

 

My phone says i need to reformat it before i can use it because its corrupted???? thats annoying.... 

 

How do i fix this? i dont wanna reformat it of course because theres too much stuff on there.

 

Also i should mention, theres actually another partition on the drive (because it originally had windows on it and idk how to remove the partition) of about 20gb and that partition actually can be detected and works fine (i have no data stored on there tho).

I think it could be an issue where your phone doesn't support the file system your drive is using and wants to format it to something that it does support.

 

Edit: @Atessin4got to it first.

[The Torrent]

2 minutes ago, Atessin4 said:

Android doesn't support ntfs. Copy files, reformat your disk to fat32 or exfat and try again.

thats wrong or at least not true for my oneplus 7t pro

[The Torrent]

1 minute ago, archiso said:

I think it could be an issue where your phone doesn't support the file system your drive is using and wants to format it to something that it does support

cant tell what file system is the issue, my other ntfs drives work fine (as well as the partition i must remind you).

[archiso]

1 minute ago, The Torrent said:

cant tell what file system is the issue, my other ntfs drives work fine (as well as the partition i must remind you).

ok, try reformating(Don't forget to save your files) the drive with the problem, if the other ntfs drives are working then you can just format the drive as ntfs.

[The Torrent]

Just now, archiso said:

ok, try reformating(Don't forget to save your files) the drive with the problem, if the other ntfs drives are working then you can just format the drive as ntfs.

it is ntfs tho......

[Levent]

Just now, The Torrent said:

thats wrong.

No, you are wrong. NTFS is Microsoft's proprietary file system, unless the manufacturer of your phone has some sort of licence agreement with them your phone wont support NTFS without a third party software. This is one of the points you have be aware if you want to maintain a device release in popular android roms (like LineageOS).

[archiso]

1 minute ago, The Torrent said:

it is ntfs tho......

if your phone has a problrm with it and no other ntfs drives then there could be a problem with how it was formated.

[Atessin4]

8 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

thats wrong or at least not true for my oneplus 7t pro

Then it doesn't receive enough power. Try plugging it through a usb hub with external power

[The Torrent]

11 minutes ago, Levent said:

No, you are wrong. NTFS is Microsoft's proprietary file system, unless the manufacturer of your phone has some sort of licence agreement with them your phone wont support NTFS without a third party software. This is one of the points you have be aware if you want to maintain a device release in popular android roms (like LineageOS).

well other ntfs drives work absolutely fine with my phone so im afraid im not wrong...

[The Torrent]

8 minutes ago, Atessin4 said:

Then it doesn't receive enough power. Try plugging it through a usb hub with external power

no thats not the issue either.

 

As i said, the partition works fine, which means power is deffo not an issue.

[Kilrah]

Might not like drives with multiple partitions, if I remember well mine will only show the first.

[Levent]

Just now, The Torrent said:

well other ntfs drives work absolutely fine with my phone so im afraid im not wrong...

Just because your phone has NTFS support doesnt make you correct, android source doesnt have NTFS in it. Not to mention you edited your post to make yourself "not wrong". 

[The Torrent]

2 minutes ago, Levent said:

Just because your phone has NTFS support doesnt make you correct, android source doesnt have NTFS in it. Not to mention you edited your post to make yourself "not wrong". 

well even if i didnt edit my post why would i be talking about other peoples android phones in a troubleshooting post about my own?

Either way, the drive being NTFS is not the issue.

[Atessin4]

2 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

well even if i didnt edit my post why would i be talking about other peoples android phones in a troubleshooting post about my own?

Either way, the drive being NTFS is not the issue.

Had the same issue on my samsung phone. Never worked with any ntfs drives. Always worked with all fat32/exfat drives. Consider it.