Why does my HD tv not recognize my USB storage device?

Have you checked to make sure the drive and the enclosure are working properly? AKA: Plugged them into a PC?

What are the specs on your set?

I would say the limitation of your cable box is likely to be OS and hardware related..

most usb interfaces on cable boxed are turned off by default If active, it will likely only function as a usb cable modem..

coming from the OS pov I would say anything other than fat32 or format derivative unix/linux will likely not be see as it will likely have a unix/linux OS...

you'll have to look at the formatting guide via the stb to see if stb supports usb hard drives.

Thanks for the reply.
The harddrive is working on my laptop and on a friend's, ( though it took me ages to work out how to format it) I was just surprised that the same films were fine played through the little plug in player whereas the tv would not recognise the harddrive. The TV is a Technika DV3-T HD ready thing from Tesco.

Sorry I am basically a noob and don't know what stb stands for.
Can I reformat the Harddrive to fat32 or is this not possible?

I believe that once it is formatted to NTFS you cannot change it back to FAT32.Right click the drive letter and under 'Properties'select the 'general'tab...this will indicate what format the drive is in...You should know that if a drive is formatted as FAT32 it will not accept any files greater than 4gb.This limits you to not adding any HD movie files to watch on your TV!A good bet is to purchase a seperate media player and use this as an interface between HDD and TV...they are relatively inexpensive these days...under £20 on Amazon....could save you a lot of messing around!
Regards
JollyJackTar

Hi,

Mine is already fat32 but it still does not work on my tv. What should I do?

Necroing a 2 year old thread isn't specifically useful. You will get more responses if you ask a question relevant to this year, and your more individual situation.

All LCD/LED Tv are coming with USB ports but these port can only has a little amount of voltage and can only detects the chip based storage. USB External Hard disk need more power to run or detect. So you can't connect a USB External storage drive to you tv for playing movies or songs

All LCD/LED Tv are coming with USB ports but these port can only has a little amount of voltage and can only detects the chip based storage. USB External Hard disk need more power to run or detect. So you can't connect a USB External storage drive to you tv for playing movies or songs

I have a 3 month old Toshiba LCD TV and it recognizes my external 1TB HD just fine. But I believe the problem is the format of the drive you're using. Mine was FAT32 but the 4GB transfer limit was a problem as there were some movies I could not put on the drive. I converted it to NTFS, and now the TV won't read it (although my laptop reads it perfectly).

Hi
I am Rangarajan from India. In fact the solution is very simple.

Your external hard disk is formatted in NTFS. All USB drive format is FAT32. Usually, you can't format more than 32GB in FAT32 format. To over come this, there is a free software which allows you to format in FAT32, any hard drive more than 32GB. The link for that software is : http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/Fat32Formatter/
for my 720GB Maxtor 4 Plus. it took nearly 6 hours to format in FAT32. But, once formatted it works like a breeze. This solution I got it from this site. The entire credit goes to them. Please read the thinlineblh December 9, 2010 at 17:41:14, comment below:

http://www.computing.net/answers/hardware/wd-elements-t...

Please read the following also, which also I got it from the net, I don't remember the site, very useful suggestion (may God bless that person with peace and propserity) and will help you, how to use your external hard drive in FAT32 mode:

This was probably the scenario were the USB interface on the DVD player became corrupted. I found that I had to power on the player and hard drive in the following order to avoid this continually happening:
• DVD player ON
• Plug in or turn HDD ON
• Watch stuff here
• Unplug or turn HDD OFF
• DVD player OFF

I hope this helps.

Cheers!

Hi
I am Rangarajan from India. In fact the solution is very simple.

Your external hard disk is formatted in NTFS. All USB drive format is FAT32. Usually, you can't format more than 32GB in FAT32 format. To over come this, there is a free software which allows you to format in FAT32, any hard drive more than 32GB. The link for that software is : http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/Fat32Formatter/
for my 720GB Maxtor 4 Plus. it took nearly 6 hours to format in FAT32. But, once formatted it works like a breeze. This solution I got it from this site. The entire credit goes to them. Please read the thinlineblh December 9, 2010 at 17:41:14, comment below:

http://www.computing.net/answers/hardware/wd-elements-t...

Please read the following also, which also I got it from the net, I don't remember the site, very useful suggestion (may God bless that person with peace and propserity) and will help you, how to use your external hard drive in FAT32 mode:

This was probably the scenario were the USB interface on the DVD player became corrupted. I found that I had to power on the player and hard drive in the following order to avoid this continually happening:
• DVD player ON
• Plug in or turn HDD ON
• Watch stuff here
• Unplug or turn HDD OFF
• DVD player OFF

I hope this helps.

Cheers!

Hi
I am Rangarajan from India. In fact the solution is very simple.

Your external hard disk is formatted in NTFS. All USB drive format is FAT32. Usually, you can't format more than 32GB in FAT32 format. To over come this, there is a free software which allows you to format in FAT32, any hard drive more than 32GB. The link for that software is : http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/Fat32Formatter/
for my 720GB Maxtor 4 Plus. it took nearly 6 hours to format in FAT32. But, once formatted it works like a breeze. This solution I got it from this site. The entire credit goes to them. Please read the thinlineblh December 9, 2010 at 17:41:14, comment below:

http://www.computing.net/answers/hardware/wd-elements-t...

Please read the following also, which also I got it from the net, I don't remember the site, very useful suggestion (may God bless that person with peace and propserity) and will help you, how to use your external hard drive in FAT32 mode:

This was probably the scenario were the USB interface on the DVD player became corrupted. I found that I had to power on the player and hard drive in the following order to avoid this continually happening:
• DVD player ON
• Plug in or turn HDD ON
• Watch stuff here
• Unplug or turn HDD OFF
• DVD player OFF

I hope this helps.

Cheers!

This was probably the scenario were the USB interface on the DVD player became corrupted.