USB mass storage device not recognized by dvd player

[Pubear]

I recently bought a bluray that is supposed to be able to recognize and play files from a USB hard drive. I've hooked up my 500G seagate drive and nothing happens apart from the drive powering up.

I believe the instructions said that the player would read both NTSC and FAT32.

Any Ideas?

Also the player recognizes my Ipod but does not see any of the music on it.

Thanks in advance for the useful help you all always provide.

 

[highfigh]

I recently bought a bluray that is supposed to be able to recognize and play files from a USB hard drive. I've hooked up my 500G seagate drive and nothing happens apart from the drive powering up.

I believe the instructions said that the player would read both NTSC and FAT32.

Any Ideas?

Also the player recognizes my Ipod but does not see any of the music on it.

Thanks in advance for the useful help you all always provide.

NTFS? NTSC is the video format we use here in the US and some other places.

Did you turn the DVD player on before or after you connected the USB drive?

 

[j_garcia]

Which player you are talking about usually helps. The players that I've seen only support FAT32 not NTFS.

 

[Seth=L]

Which player you are talking about usually helps. The players that I've seen only support FAT32 not NTFS.

Which is stupid, because the average novice (such as myself) can't figure out how to format a drive to FAT32 when your computer doesn't want you to.

 

[redass]

Which is stupid, because the average novice (such as myself) can't figure out how to format a drive to FAT32 when your computer doesn't want you to.

I can't help the OP (or maybe this will help him?), but I had the same problem as you with an external drive I wanted to use with my PS3. I used a freeware program called swissknife V3 to format the drive in FAT32, despite my computer not wanting me to. Something about windows can't format FAT32 drives bigger than a certain size.

 

[adwilk]

NTFS is a file system only understood by windows. There isnt a non windows based player that will play those files- period.

Which sucks, because fat32 can't handle single files larger than 4gb I believe.

 

[Pubear]

I can't help the OP (or maybe this will help him?), but I had the same problem as you with an external drive I wanted to use with my PS3. I used a freeware program called swissknife V3 to format the drive in FAT32, despite my computer not wanting me to. Something about windows can't format FAT32 drives bigger than a certain size.

Is there a way to reformat the drive without having to temporarily transfer the data to another device?

I have quite a bit of music and nothing large enough to store it while I reformat the drive.

Oh and yeah and.....der da der to myself. Of course I meant NTFS rather than NTSC.

 

[highfigh]

Which is stupid, because the average novice (such as myself) can't figure out how to format a drive to FAT32 when your computer doesn't want you to.

Why would computer geeks want to design something that could be understood by anyone else? How could they feel good about themselves if they weren't the only ones who didn't need to ask for help?

 

[Seth=L]

You can burn the data to dvds or cds for backup (which will take a lot of time). Or if you know someone that will allow you to borrow their storage for a while you could also do that. Otherwise you're going to have to pick an chose what you can stand to lose, and what you can't. Formating the drive always erases all data.

 

[Seth=L]

Why would computer geeks want to design something that could be understood by anyone else? How could they feel good about themselves if they weren't the only ones who didn't need to ask for help?

Maybe that's what this is all about, some macho nerd thing.

 

[highfigh]

Maybe that's what this is all about, some macho nerd thing.

Macho nerd? Does that mean they have more than one pocket protector stuffed full of pens, pencils and little flashlights?

 

[j_garcia]

Macho nerd? Does that mean they have more than one pocket protector stuffed full of pens, pencils and little flashlights?

No, just "manly" cool pens and a maglite

 

[Antonio Neves]

NTFS is a file system only understood by windows. There isnt a non windows based player that will play those files- period.

Which sucks, because fat32 can't handle single files larger than 4gb I believe.

There are other equipments that can access NTFS. One of them is the Western Digital WD TV. It is not a DVD Player but supports many more codecs than any DVD I know off, Both in Video and Audio. Costs peanuts..

 

[adwilk]

I stand corrected. The WDTV will access my NTFS drive, but the load times are crazy slow.

 

[krzywica]

Why would computer geeks want to design something that could be understood by anyone else? How could they feel good about themselves if they weren't the only ones who didn't need to ask for help?

You need to look at Linux. Thats like the Alice in Wonderland of geekdom.

Maybe that's what this is all about, some macho nerd thing.

Job security man, job security.....