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USB hard drive not working in Sony Bravia TV

  • 08-09-2013 3:15pm
    #1
    martineire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭


    I have a external hard drive with a USB connection but it won't work (play any Films) on any of my Sony Bravia TV's. It works on my sisters TV but her TV is a Phillips. Is there anyway around my problem?? If I get a DVD player with a USB connection and plug the hard drive into that could I play films through the DVD player to the TV? Any help thanks


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  • #2
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,620 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    It sounds like either the partition size is too big or the disk may be formatted as NTFS and maybe the Sony only supports FAT32. I have a Philips and the user manuals says it supports FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS.

    Have you tried updating the s/w on the Sony TV?

    Edit: This article on a Sony website dated April 2013 says Sony does not support NTFS, that's probably the issue.

    https://us.en.kb.sony.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/38353/c/65,66/kw/ntfs


  • #3
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Yep, it does need to be formatted to FAT32.

    You can use this to do it - Partition Wizard Home Edition 8.
    It's pretty straight forward to use, and is a decent bit of software to have also.


    You could also use this, which is also very good - Easus Partition Master 9.2.2


  • #4
    martineire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭martineire


    Thanks lads, Sorry Im not very technical minded with all this stuff :-(

    Ok so if I download that software onto my laptop. How do I then upload it onto my Sony Bravia?


  • #5
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    martineire wrote: »
    Thanks lads, Sorry Im not very technical minded with all this stuff :-(

    Ok so if I download that software onto my laptop. How do I then upload it onto my Sony Bravia?

    You don't.
    You run the software on your PC and convert the hard drive to FAT32 while it is connected to your PC.

    How much of your hard drive is filled with movies?

    Best thing to do is convert the hard drive to FAT32 and then put the movies on to it.
    Follow this
    http://www.partitionwizard.com/convertpartition/convert-partition-to-fat32.html

    You can either put the movies onto your PC -> Convert the Hard Drive -> Put movies back.
    Or (a bit more involved)
    Create A Fat32 Partition, (Depending on how much space you have) -> Move movies to Fat32 partition and convert the rest of the drive.


  • #6
    martineire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭martineire


    Allyall wrote: »
    You don't.
    You run the software on your PC and convert the hard drive to FAT32 while it is connected to your PC.

    How much of your hard drive is filled with movies?

    Best thing to do is convert the hard drive to FAT32 and then put the movies on to it.
    Follow this
    http://www.partitionwizard.com/convertpartition/convert-partition-to-fat32.html

    You can either put the movies onto your PC -> Convert the Hard Drive -> Put movies back.
    Or (a bit more involved)
    Create A Fat32 Partition, (Depending on how much space you have) -> Move movies to Fat32 partition and convert the rest of the drive.
    That makes perfect sense thanks. I have a good few movies on the hard drive alright but as you stated above I'll work my way around that by either one of the methods above.

    Thanks for the help


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  • #7
    PyeContinental
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 509 ✭✭✭PyeContinental


    Do you have any HD movie files? Any around 4GB in size or over? If so, depending on the NTFS->FAT32 conversion software, it will either fail to convert, or chop these files or corrupt them in some way, due to the 4GB size limit of FAT32.

    Your own solution of buying a DVD (or Blu-ray) player that has a properly supported USB media player may be the simpler and better answer. You could also consider buying one with network or even wifi support. Then you could dispense with the USB HDD and simply select files to play over your network.


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