Rosslyn Mccool asks:
Just bought a Toshiba 1TB external hard drive, put all my films on and it wouldn’t load to my DVD player at all. Took some advice from this website to convert the hard drive to FAT32, but still no joy. Is there any way to fix this problem?
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System: Windows
Tagged: computer hardware, dvd player, external hard drive, fat32, file system
System: Windows
Tagged: computer hardware, dvd player, external hard drive, fat32, file system
5 Answers -
ha14
July 15, 2012perhaps the dvd player wont work with big external hard drives, try with a usb key and see if it will play with? then perhaps 1TB is too much for you DVD player.
Oron
July 15, 2012I suggest you read your DVD player’s manual carefully. All DVD players are not made alike, and it’s difficult to give you advice without knowing all the details. It could be disk size, it could be video file format, codecs or something else.
ferdinan Sitohang
July 16, 2012Please check the specification of your DVD Player. Whether it support large capacity of external drive or only flash disc version. Each of DVD Player has some limitation on accessing external media. For what my concern is your DVD Player doesn’t support big capacity external disc. Thank you
Sohel Zaman
July 16, 2012Some guide you can try step by step —-
1. Not knowing the capacity, it’s hard to assume. Try first with a 4/8/16 GB flash drive. If OK, then try with 1 TB. You’ll know if the problem is due to capacity limitation.
2. If you think that 1TB should work with the player, and you get that FAT32 is not working, try formatting the partition to exFAT and then try again.
3. Do you have multi partitions in the external storage device..? Then make sure the first partition is format is FAT32 and is set as PRIMARY. You can do this with some partitioning tool like partition magic or easeus partition tool. In this case, only the first partition will be visible but not the others and for sure it has to be in FAT32 and be primary partition as said above.
Let me know whichever step works for you.
Jordyn Bushaw
September 13, 2012All movies come with a copy protection file that will deny access to it. If you use Windows media player, you might need to upgrade it’s security components, go to: http://drmlicense.one.microsoft.com/Indivsite/en/indivit.asp to upgrade the components. File system does not change anything either, only how the computer recognizes it.