USB connected to TV but cannot see its folders and files

[ukiany]

Hi,

I have SONY TV 46HX800 and when I connected my USB to TV I cannot see its folders and files.

Therefore I cannot selected any movie I have inside my USB device.

Please assist me.

Thanks,

Udi

[Anonymous]

HI there

You may not be able to see file/folders for a number of reasons. The 2 most common causes are that the USB drive must for FAT32 Formatted. And that the files are in a recognisable format for the TV to 'read' (ie MP4).

What type of files are they (as in JPG, AVI, MP4, MPG, MKV etc)?

The link below contains information on what files are recognised on your TV

http://store.sony.com/p/KDL-46HX800/en/p/KDL46HX800#specifications

Hope that helps.

[ukiany]

Hi,

Thank you for your answer.

Other USB is readable in my TV.

How can I format the USB to FAT32?

Thanks,

Udi

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi there

Before you do, make sure you back up your data first. Instead of me typing the instructions, I thought a nice little YouTube clip might do very nice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-xE5YOUpIo

and some instructions

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/format-usb-drive/

Cheers.

[movesen]

If you have an older Sony TV (From before 2013) then you may detect that small USB flash devices work fine, but not using large external USB devices.

Most USB devices you get now is formated as NTFS, and this disk format will not work on older Sony TV like KDL-40EX500. You need to format to FAT32 diskformat and use the old MBR (not default Basic GPT).

Microsoft Windows 10 is by default not able to do this on new large disk drives!

To be able to format you USB device to FAT32 using MBR on Microsoft Windows 10 I recommend to use:

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard (Free download) https://www.disk-partition.com/

Below E: drive shows how the disk should be formatted to support old Sone TV's:

If GPT feature is enabled, then just rightclick and Convert from GPT to MBR disk (Remember to select Apply after selection)

[movesen]

Here a good descripton on MBR vs GPT

https://www.disk-partition.com/gpt-mbr/difference-between-mbr-and-gpt-1203.html