alpine file instruction???? didnt know that where i can see those instruction and i like a lot of genre and i got a lot of music so i wanted to put it all in my car ^^

 

The HU will only read the device if it's formatted a certain way. I think it wants FAT32, not NTFS or exFAT. There's probably other formatting types but that give you a place to start. Check Alpines Manuals........................................... ........................

My manual (ida-x305) says the USB device can only search file/folders up to the 8th hierarchy. The 9th and subsequent cannot be searched and played back...................
Limitation is also 10,000 files/1000 folders............................This device supports FAT 12/16/32...........

That's what my manual says. Your's is probably pretty close.

 

To find out how you portable HDD is formatted plug it in to your pc, open "My Computer" and right click on your HDD. Scroll down and left click "Format..." in the menu. A window should pop up, have a look to see what it says under "File System".

 

yeah ur right ive read my manual and the say i need a fat32 drive so ill try it

 

IT WORK!!!!!!! but i still have a little problem when my music is playing sometime there is less than a sec where the sound cut and its random and its not because my car is moving even if my hard drive stay flat and my dont dont move the sound cut someone can help me on that?????

 

^does it only happen with the hard drive as the source? Make sure it's not happening with the tuner, or ipod or memory card plugged in. If it's only with the HD, make sure it's not the drive, then look for other causes like loose connections, rca cables, bad ground, speaker connections etc..(you can check all that first as well).

 

My old Kingston stick works flawlessly where as my new one has the same issue. That's what I meant earlier when I said some units prefer one brand to another. I don't know whether it's the speed of file transfer or what.

 

its my hard drive when i use a usb stick it dont happen and my tuner play well