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I recently bought a 2TB USB 3.0 hard drive to keep my family videos and photos. I want to use it with my Sumvision Micro Cyclone Micro 2 media player. The player works perfectly with an older hard disk but not at all with my new hard drive. I suspect the reason is that the media player is a USB 2 device whereas my new hard disk is USB 3. I've asked about how to get it to work and was told that I need to 'enable' my USB 3 hard drive to be USB 2 compatible... Is this true? If so how do I do it?

Thanks

Nam
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The problem with USB 3.0 external HDDs is that they often require more power that a USB 2.0 port can provide. To get around that you can use a Y USB cable (if you have 2 available USB ports) or try using a powered USB 3.0 Hub.

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