Help please - Hard drive not showing files

stiofan85

I use an external HDD to store loads of photos and videos and connect it to the Smart TV. Today I spotted an option on the TV to record Terrestrial TV to the Hard drive and flicked through the settings. It said something about prepare the HDD and I clicked okay and was then able to record. It did not warn "this will format the disk".

Then I went to open a video from the drive and there is nothing. Pretty sure the TV did not format the drive as it shows as 810gb used (as it was before) on both the TV file browser and on my Mac. The "preparing" thing lasted maybe 10 seconds so I don't think it formatted it that quickly.

Anyone got a suggestion?

TV is a Samsung Smart TV, couple years old.
Hard Drive is a Seagate Wireless (although wired in this case via USB)

Thanks for any help in advance

mordeith

Have you tried hooking up the hdd to a laptop/pc to see if it can read the files. The TV might have written some directory structure that is causing the issue.

stiofan85

Oh thank f*ck.

Now to backup the backup.

Thanks

mordeith

stiofan85 wrote: »

Oh thank f*ck.

Now to backup the backup.

Thanks

I take it you can access the files again?

stiofan85

mordeith wrote: »

I take it you can access the files again?

yes, thanks! I keep that windows laptop around for situations like this.

cheers