How do I view photos from my portable hard drive on my Droid tablet?

[AC Question]

How do I view photos from my portable harddrive on my droid tablet

I view pictures on my pc and save them to a portable hard drive.
However when I plug that into my Samsung tablet, it sees the hard drive as being empty.

 

[hallux]

Re: How do I view photos from my portable harddrive on my droid tablet

Most likely, the drive is formatted as NTFS. Android can't natively read that format and to change the format of the drive would result in erasing all the data.

Also, if the drive is "bus-powered", meaning it doesn't plug into a wall, the tablet will have trouble with it as the drive needs more power than the tablet can provide to it.

 

[Rukbat]

Re: How do I view photos from my portable harddrive on my droid tablet

Save everything on the drive to some other device. Reformat it to exFAT. Put the files back on it. Use a 3 port OTG cable, so you can power the drive with it's power supply or the phone's power supply. (You can't charge the phone in OTG mode, though.)