![]() You would have to read in the TV's manual about the formats that the TV recognizes. Once that is donw, all you have to do is connect your external hard drive to your TV and provided the files in your drive are compatible with TV, it should be able to read files and you should be able to view your movies. You can do the following to format drive:- connect external to mac- go to Applications- select utilities- select disk utility- click on partition belonging to your external hard drive- select the partition (there should be only one)- choose msdos(fat) as your format- click on applyOnce your external is formatted with Fat32, copy/move the files back to your external from your mac. Once you format a drive, you loose all the information on it. Use these steps for tips or to troubleshoot your Western Digital external hard drive or portable SSD device. The WD Elements external hard drive is another one of the best PS5 hard drive options that’s inexpensive but provides lots of storage space. Make sure to copy any files you have in your hard drive to a folder in your mac Hfs is compatible with mac.If you want to format your external hard drive to Fat32 in a mac you can use the mac utilities to format it. Ext2,3,4 are formats compatible with linux. Fat16 and fat are the precursors of Fat32 and are not widely used anymore. Fat32 is an older format which can be used in linux, mac and pc. The most widely used format for PC is NTFS, which is the default for most new computers. There are several formats for hard drives, ntfs, fat32, (fat16, fat), ext2, ext3, ext4, hfs, etc. Mind you, there are some TVs that are to read NTFS formatted drives but in your case it is better to use Fat32 so that you mac can read it too.The reason your TV, can not read the contents of your drive is because it is formatted with HFS, which is a format compatible with MAC but not with your TV. The advantage of FAT32, is that it can be read in different operating system like mac, linux and windows. It includes a free trial of WD SmarWare Pro for local and cloud. The small, lightweight enclosure features massive capacity and WD quality and reliability. ![]() One disadvantage of FAt32, is that it does not allow files bigger than 4GBs. WD Elements portable hard drives with USB 3.3 Gen 1 offer reliable, high-capacity storage to go, fast data transfer rates and universal connectivity with USB 2.0 and USB 3.1 Gen 1 devices. ![]() Hard drives are power hungry and do not start if they do not get ample power.Hello, If you want your TV to read your external drive it has to be formatted in FAT32. If you have an error pop up with mount -a then edit it into your answer so i can help but do a simple search for the error because most likely there is a problem with your ubuntu which has already been discussed elsewhere.īTW: make sure that your drive is getting enough power if your ubuntu is installed on a different machine for windows. Second is to create a directory at /media with mkdir /media/name and use your result from the fdisk -l command here by typing mount -t /dev/sdb1 /mount/name -o uid=1000,gid=1000,utf8,dmask=027,fmask=137 where sdb1 can be what you see in fdisk -l results. If this doesn't work go to terminal after plugging in the drive and type lsusb or fdisk -l and you should see your drive here with the name Western Digital or something of the like.Īfter this you can take 2 approaches, first is to just type mount -a and it should be mounted in /media/your-hard-disk and you should be able to access it. If you have formatted already then check /media for your hard drive. If you mean that you can put media on the drive from windows then you have already formatted otherwise do that. ![]()
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