Connect IPAD Pro with Toshiba Canvio Advance Hard Drive

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Connect IPAD Pro with Toshiba Canvio Advance Hard Drive

I purchased a Toshiba Canvio Advance to use with my iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (4th generation) running IOS 14. I made this purchase after reading several reviews recommending this device for this purpose. When I attempt to connect the Toshiba Hard Drive with my IPAD Pro the IPAD Pro does not recognize the hard drive. Toshiba Support recommended contacting Apple as the issue is reformatting the hard drive for use on Apple products and, per the Toshiba representative, the information on how to do that with an IPAD Pro has not been provided by Apple.

I am connecting to the IPAD Pro using through a Hyper Drive 6 in 1 Hub for IPAD Pro.

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 12:45 PM

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TFSXU81 Author

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Nov 13, 2020 9:03 AM in response to Fynn_father

Reformatting the drive worked. Back up any data on the drive to another storage site first.

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Nov 13, 2020 8:55 AM in response to TFSXU81

Did reformatting the drive work for you? I have a western digital drive but there was no way to disconnect the drive so it would error after disconnecting. Do you have that issue with the toshiba drive?

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Nov 13, 2020 10:27 AM in response to TFSXU81

Awesome thank you. Have a great weekend

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Phil0124

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Oct 26, 2020 1:10 PM in response to TFSXU81

The iPad can only access drives formatted as Fat32. exFat, HFS+ and APFS.

It cannot access drives formatted as NTFS for Windows, which the Canvio appears to be formatted as. https://storage.toshiba.com/consumer-hdd/external/canvio-advance

You would need to connect the drive to a Windows PC or a Mac and format it in one of the supported formats.

There is no option to format it directly on the iPad unfortunately.

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