My hard drive is a Seagate Expansion Portable 1 TB. Yes I am using a y-cable. The problem i'm having is that my Wii U does not recognize the hard drive unless i firmly push the cable into the hard drive to the point where i fear it might damage it. Even so, after a couple of minutes of using the hard drive, the Wii U receives an error and I have to force shut it down. This is really annoying, and if try moving any data, the Wii U yet again receives an error. A couple of last things to note; I have disabled the USB sleep option, My warranty has expired, I have tried plugging the non data cable of the y cable into a socket using a phone charger, however this does not work at all and the Wii U does not even recognize the hard drive when i do this and finally, i have tried using the hard drive with the y cable on my laptop and it works just fine. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help with this issue.
EDIT: I forgot to mention; When I'm trying to play a game on my HDD, sometimes, rather than displaying an error, the Gamepad screen goes black and the HDMI disconnects. If i restart the gamepad, it cannot connect to the Wii U. This is easily solved by force closing the Wii U, but that does not stop the problem from occurring again.
EDIT: I forgot to mention; When I'm trying to play a game on my HDD, sometimes, rather than displaying an error, the Gamepad screen goes black and the HDMI disconnects. If i restart the gamepad, it cannot connect to the Wii U. This is easily solved by force closing the Wii U, but that does not stop the problem from occurring again.
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