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Seagate Backup Plus 4tb not compatible with tv


ronkanon

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Howdee,

 

Maybe someone can help me with the following problem.

I just bought an external 2.5 inch hard drive (Seagate Backup Plus 4tb) with the intension of playing videos on my Samsung tv (USB 3.0) but the hard drive does not appear on the screen.

It seems my tv does not recognize the hard drive.The format is NTFS but i can change that to exFAT wich i already tried but no difference.

It's nice to have so much backup space but the intension was to watch videos on my tv.

I know there are some real technicians amongst you all.

So could anyone please help me to solve this (if possible)?

 

Thanks in advance and have a nice day!

 

ronkanon.

 

 

 

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i have 1tb Seagate Backup Plus and it working nicely with my LG tv thru usb port... though after an 18 month of use this Seagate external HDD sometime behave weird in between while using it with pc..< as I think Seagate sucks... WD best>.

Abt ur prob,, don't know what will be the reason behind this..hope some one sort it out here or I will say as u just bought it now then you better asked this question even @ Seagate forums

 

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2 hours ago, ronkanon said:

Howdee,

 

Maybe someone can help me with the following problem.

I just bought an external 2.5 inch hard drive (Seagate Backup Plus 4tb) with the intension of playing videos on my Samsung tv (USB 3.0) but the hard drive does not appear on the screen.

It seems my tv does not recognize the hard drive.The format is NTFS but i can change that to exFAT wich i already tried but no difference.

It's nice to have so much backup space but the intension was to watch videos on my tv.

I know there are some real technicians amongst you all.

So could anyone please help me to solve this (if possible)?

 

Thanks in advance and have a nice day!

 

ronkanon.

 

 

 

 

TVs with this feature usually only recognize hard drives formatted in FAT32... Try and report back.

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have you got a DVD or BD player with a USB port...my Toshiba BD finds my 5TB Seagate no problem

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On ‎6‎/‎3‎/‎2016 at 4:00 PM, WALLONN7 said:

 

TVs with this feature usually only recognize hard drives formatted in FAT32... Try and report back.

mine NTFS formatted drive easily recognize by LG

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9 minutes ago, truemate said:

mine NTFS formatted drive easily recognize by LG

 

That's why I said "usually"... :rolleyes:

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Howdee,

 

Well WALLONN7,i changed it (using Aomei Partition Assistent) to FAT32 but my tv still didn't recognize the hard drive.

The problem is solved but i had to change it's volume to 2tb.So now it's a 2tb MBR NTFS drive.So i lost 2tb:( but the hard drive appears on my tv and can be used:D.

Next time i buy a external hard drive,it won't be bigger than 2tb unless my next tv can handle bigger drives ofcourse.

Thanks for your help.

 

You all have a nice day.

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38 minutes ago, ronkanon said:

The problem is solved but i had to change it's volume to 2tb.So now it's a 2tb MBR NTFS drive.So i lost 2tb:(

Try to Format it as GPT and try. May be it will recognise it. Then make two or three partitions, each less than 2 tb

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Howdee,

 

Ghazi,i formatted the drive as GPT,created 3 partitions (2 patitions 1.9 tb and 1 partition 0.2 tb) and treid but no succes.

WALLONN7, the excact tv model is Samsung 40 inch ES5500.

I want to thank the both of you for your response.

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37 minutes ago, ronkanon said:

Howdee,

 

Ghazi,i formatted the drive as GPT,created 3 partitions (2 patitions 1.9 tb and 1 partition 0.2 tb) and treid but no succes.

WALLONN7, the excact tv model is Samsung 40 inch ES5500.

I want to thank the both of you for your response.

 

Its manual info:

 

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More than 2TB USB HDD is not
supported

 

So... That's it...

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I' ve no idea about TV (don't even own one), but  in non GPT Windows machines Seagate DiscWizard can help fully utilize HDDs bigger than 2TB. 

Are you sure it can't help in this case ?   Just a suggestion ...    :think:

 

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13 hours ago, mona said:

I' ve no idea about TV (don't even own one), 

 

really !! u dont own/watch tv :stereo:

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14 hours ago, mona said:

I' ve no idea about TV (don't even own one), but  in non GPT Windows machines Seagate DiscWizard can help fully utilize HDDs bigger than 2TB. 

Are you sure it can't help in this case ?   Just a suggestion ...    :think:

 

 

Seagate DiscWizard only works on Windows, Linux and Mac based systems. Samsung makes use of its proprietary OS.

And, as I stated earlier:

 

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More than 2TB USB HDD is not
supported

 

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