topic Re: External 100Gb hardrive with Sony Bravia XD80 in Android TV

External 100Gb hardrive with Sony Bravia XD80

Seane3 — Sun, 22 Jan 2017 14:16:56 GMT

My new TV does not recognise my hardrive, Have tried all of the usb ports and tried re formatting my hardrive. Any sugestions?

Re: External 100Gb hardrive with Sony Bravia XD80

Mooly01 — Sun, 22 Jan 2017 15:13:18 GMT

Does the drive look OK in Windows Disk Management console (normal drive letter and name allocated) and that it is not configured as a dynamic disk which you can check by right clicking the disk label ?

Beyond that and I've no idea what else to check I'm afraid. I do know that the Android TV's convert the disk to GPT partition format, something to be aware of if you reuse the disk on a PC. Convert back to conventional MBR

by right clicking the label as above.

Re: External 100Gb hardrive with Sony Bravia XD80

Seane3 — Sun, 22 Jan 2017 15:20:27 GMT

Thank you for the reply, I am actually using a mac to format the hardrive, I have formtted to MS - DOS (FAT) if that helps?

Re: External 100Gb hardrive with Sony Bravia XD80

Mooly01 — Sun, 22 Jan 2017 20:40:10 GMT

I'm not sure on that tbh. Doesn't FAT limit the max file size allowable. The drives I used were for USB recording and I found exFAT was fine. An older Sony document on USB recording says no to NTFS although I recollect trying that once and that to was OK.

The TV seems to format the drive to suit anyway, because I found the drive once used then becomes non recognisable by Windows until you go and deliberately delete the volume and then recreate a new 'simple volume' to bring it back to how it was before.

I know in Windows that if you don't allocate a partition a letter then it doesn't show in file explorer. Whether anything like that applies to plug in drives I'm not sure.