Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: tendoboy1984 on December 15, 2014, 05:05:24 PM
Title: External hard drive not working using y-cable
Post by: tendoboy1984 on December 15, 2014, 05:05:24 PM
My external hard drive isn't working properly. It sometimes disconnects randomly, even while using a Y-cable (I tried the front and rear USB ports). I was able to copy all of my game data to it, but when I tried copying the game data from the hard drive back to my Wii U I received this message:
"An error occurred while moving the game data. Some content couldn't be transferred."
So now some of my game data is stuck on the hard drive.
Title: Re: External hard drive not working using y-cable
Post by: Khushrenada on December 15, 2014, 05:36:21 PM
Check out: Hardware and Wi-Fi Support. (https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?board=39.0)
Title: Re: External hard drive not working using y-cable
Post by: RedBlue on December 16, 2014, 04:55:11 PM
if you have a spare USB phone charger plug one end of that to it and see if that powers your USB drive.
Title: Re: External hard drive not working using y-cable
Post by: ObbyDent on December 16, 2014, 05:18:49 PM
Is it an external or portable hard drive? The ones explicitly named external always need an external power source hooked to an outlet for it to turn on, even with a y-cable. If it's a portable hard drive, the y-cable should work just fine.
Title: Re: External hard drive not working using y-cable
Post by: tendoboy1984 on December 17, 2014, 11:51:05 AM
It's a portable hard drive that's powered by the USB ports (hence the need for a Y-cable). I found out the problem, I just had to disable the hard drive's sleep mode and now it works perfectly.
Title: Re: External hard drive not working using y-cable
Post by: tendoboy1984 on December 17, 2014, 11:52:03 AM
