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My Passbook Ultra

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  • NTFS
  • Storage
  • iMac
  • HIS
  • Video
  • External Hard Drive
  • DVD Players
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October 10, 2014 5:51:56 AM

My friend gave me his 2TB My passbook ultra which consisted of video files
I had no issues watching videos from the external HDD through my dvd player and no issues when I connected the external drive to my IMAC

I had some videos on my IMAC which I wanted to transfer onto that external HDD for viewing through my dvd player.

I could not transfer files from my IMAC to the HDD, so i formated the external HDD.

I backed up all the videos from the HDD to my IMAC than i formated the external HDD to MAC OS Extended (Journaled). I had luck transferring the videos from my IMAC to the external HDD and viewing was good on the IMAC though when i connected the external HDD to my dvd player i received a message "the usb device connected to this units front panel is not supported".

I formated the external HDD once again to MS-DOS(FAT) and when i connected the external HDD to the dvd player i recieved the same message "the usb device connected to this units front panel is not supported"

What is going on?

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a b G Storage
October 10, 2014 6:47:05 AM

Hi Tom. It's because of the file system. If you want to use it with your DVD player I think it would probably run with the NTFS system, but this is not supported by Mac OS. On the other hand exFAT is a file system which is supported by both Windows and Mac OS, although I don't know if your DVD player will be able to read it. You should find out what file systems are supported by your DVD player.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
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October 10, 2014 3:57:31 PM

Boogieman_WD said:
Hi Tom. It's because of the file system. If you want to use it with your DVD player I think it would probably run with the NTFS system, but this is not supported by Mac OS. On the other hand exFAT is a file system which is supported by both Windows and Mac OS, although I don't know if your DVD player will be able to read it. You should find out what file systems are supported by your DVD player.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD


Hi Boogieman,

I just checked the compatibility with my DVD player and it states it supports READ/ FAT32, NTFS

My DVD player is a Sony BDP-S508
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a b G Storage
October 13, 2014 2:07:51 AM

If those are in fact the only file systems that your DVD player supports, your only option for using your drive with both a Mac and the DVD player is FAT32. It is supported by Mac OS X, an you can both read and write on the drive. Unfortunately the FAT32 file system has some limitations e.g. maximum size of partitions is 32GB and it doesn't support files larger than 4GB. Mac OS X can read the NTFS file system, but you wouldn't be able to write on the drive with your iMac.
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