Why External HDD showing as Local Disk instead of USB Drive?

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RahulKhotkar

Hello,I have WD My Book 4TB external hard drive. I am connecting it to a router via USB to use it on local network and it says format not recognized. When I conect this same drive to laptop, it shows as local drive and I can access the data on it. While on the other hand, I have 64GB Lexar flash drive which when connected to laptop, shows as USB drive and it’s accessible via router over network. I tallied the formatting, both have same format. Only difference is, type of WD shows as local disk and type of Lexar shows as USB drive. Can someone please help me with this situation where I can hav

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