Connecting a 320gb hard disc drive to the home hub...

I want to connect a hard disc drive to my home hub 3 so I can access this from around the house, I have formatted the drive to fat 32 but i can not get it to show up in my network and when i look on bthomehub.home it say no usb device connected. 
Any ideas or solutions would be great as its driving me mad now

rapouc wrote:
I want to connect a hard disc drive to my home hub 3 so I can access this from around the house, I have formatted the drive to fat 32 but i can not get it to show up in my network and when i look on bthomehub.home it say no usb device connected. 
Any ideas or solutions would be great as its driving me mad now
There is a post HOME HUB 2.0, USB HDD, dated 28-10-2010. Use the search function (or use Google, which I did).
It's a long time ago, but it may give you some help. If you succeed in getting it to work, you may find it slow, as the Home Hub processor is slow and USB2 transfer speeds are slow.
Might be better to connect the drive to another computer in the network, and use USB3, if you have it.
I haven't networked my Windows 7 computers as I have been told that it's troublesome setting it up.
It worked well with Vista in 2010, but I had a large electric bill as I seem to remember that you have to disable the hibernate and sleep functions on the computer connected to the drive.
Would be interested to know if you have success.

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