I managed to get a 200GB hard disk working off the USB in the Accord this weekend so thought I would post a little guide to help those of you might want to do the same
1: First thing you need is a USB hard disk; one of the laptop sized ones with no power supply. I had an old 200 GB IDE laptop disk lying around so I just bought an enclosure for it for £12
2: You need to format the disk in FAT32 format as the car will not read the newer NTFS format used by Windows 7 and the like. To do this you need to download a utility such as Fat 32 Format.
I used this one http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
You basically plug in the USB drive into a PC and format it using the utility.
I tried it under Windows XP SP3 and it worked fine.
3: Copy your Mp3 folders on the hard disk, I’ve copied around 80GB and 400 folders and so far so good. From other posts I understand that the car reads the folders in the order written so you may need to defrag the hard disk when adding new material.
Hope this helps!
Note: This information with my best intentions but is provided as is and with no guarantees that it will work or incur data loss etc.
1: First thing you need is a USB hard disk; one of the laptop sized ones with no power supply. I had an old 200 GB IDE laptop disk lying around so I just bought an enclosure for it for £12
2: You need to format the disk in FAT32 format as the car will not read the newer NTFS format used by Windows 7 and the like. To do this you need to download a utility such as Fat 32 Format.
I used this one http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
You basically plug in the USB drive into a PC and format it using the utility.
I tried it under Windows XP SP3 and it worked fine.
3: Copy your Mp3 folders on the hard disk, I’ve copied around 80GB and 400 folders and so far so good. From other posts I understand that the car reads the folders in the order written so you may need to defrag the hard disk when adding new material.
Hope this helps!
Note: This information with my best intentions but is provided as is and with no guarantees that it will work or incur data loss etc.