External hard drive - xda mini s

[jonnyboy]

Do you know if its possible to connect my o2 xda mini s to an external hard drive as i was thinking of storing all my files, movies etc on there and accessing them via the xda?

[Martin Laverty]

As far as I'm aware there is nothing that would let you do this. I dont think the pda would be able to read the drive and I dont think you can get a external hard drive that would let you connect a pocket pc device too it either.

Best solution just now would probably be 1 or 2 gig memory cards unless anyone else can think of anything.

Originally Posted by jonnyboy

Do you know if its possible to connect my o2 xda mini s to an external hard drive as I was thinking of storing all my files, movies etc on there and accessing them via the xda?

[bbri]

I'm not sure about pluging in a HD directly, but you should be able to use a networked PC to do something similar, running perhaps over a wifi network.

I saw a review of the mini s which included advice to try Tweaks2K, which has a tweak to "show network" on your device. See full article: http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=308

I am now using Tweaks2k (http://www.tweaks2k2.com/) and did tick the "show network" box. It is now appearing (I have memory, storage card and network in file explore), but the folder is empty. I haven't really looked into it though, so am guessing I need to configure either my PC, network, firewalls or something. Be cool if it work though.

Good luck!