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I tried to backup to a USB hard drive but got a message that no backup device was detected, what is the problem?

April 26, 2017backup detected device GOT message problem USB

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I tried to backup to a USB hard drive but got a message that no backup device was detected, what is the problem?

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The system treats a hard drive like it is a large flash drive so it needs to be formatted as FAT32 before it can see it. Try formatting the hard drive as FAT32.