external hard drive help

[bella]

Hi everyone

Im hoping someone can throw some light on my problem i have a 250gb powered by mains external multimedia hard drive it has been formatted to fat32 .three folders were added ie music video photo.i proceded to add some photos and about 8 gig of music conected to tv via av cables and bingo everything came up on screen i thought great .Then i proceeded to add the remainder of my music albums and was feeling really pleased connected to tv and nothing other than initializing came up and went no further .i took of the files i had just put on and bingo no problem again i am at a loss as to what to do next any help would be great other than taking a hammer to it which at this moment i could cheerfully do .:confused:

[maynardvdm]

Hi

 

Is there a reason it is formatted to FAT32 and not NTFS?

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Take everything off Bella and format the drive as NTFS then try again.

[bella]

re hard drive

 

Hi maynardvdm the reason it is fats 32 is the multimedia player it goes in only supports that format i bought this so i could view pics and video on the tv and listen to music .and wolfeymole im unable to formatt to ntfs as this would not work at all thanks any other info you could throw my way would be much appreciated ann:)

[Tootech]

Try adding the photo's only - will it read those and run correctly?

 

What format is your music stored in - eg mp3, iTunes etc.

 

What is the make/model of your TV system?

 

It might we worth running a disk check - unplugging/plugging in a drive to different systems can cause corruptions. Do you use the Safely Remove Hardware tool in Windows?

[bella]

re hard drive

 

Hi tootech i have tried pics alone no prob and pics and music no prob as long as the music is not more than 8gig the music files i am using are mp3 and the pics jpeg when i first bought this hard drive i was under the impression that when i used the av leads to connect to the tv from hard drive the tv was just a monitor however the make of my tv is samsung lcd series 6 the one with the rose black surround .:) thanks ann

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Can you tell us exactly just what you are trying to do here Bella please.

 

I'm confused by this statement.

 

when i first bought this hard drive i was under the impression that when i used the av leads to connect to the tv from hard drive the tv was just a monitor

[bella]

re hard drive

 

im sorry wolfeymole if iam confusing people i was not intending to i bought a multimedia player with a 250gig hard drive which was formatted to fats 32 i went on to put my photos on and about 100 albums of mp3 i then connected to the tv via a av cable and the music and the pictures came up when i put the remainder of mp3 albums on the hard drive conected it to the tv via av cable all i got on the screen was initializing and that is what my problem is .sorry for the complex way i put it my last write up was to tootech as he wanted to know make of my tv and what files i had been using. thanks ann:o

[Guest Wolfeymole]

What do you mean you bought a multimedia player with a hard drive?

 

Please be exactly specific as to what you have.

[bella]

wolfeymole just seen the bit you were asking about sorry did not notice it before when tootech asked me about what tv i had i was saying i thought that when the hard drive was connected the the tv the tv became a monitor just to view pics etc i did not mean to confuse issues sorry :o

[bella]

What do you mean you bought a multimedia player with a hard drive?

 

Please be exactly specific as to what you have.

Right here goes :) i bought a multimedia player with a 250 gig hard drive this is what i am having issues with i am able to put pics on and view on tv i am able to put approx 100 albums mp3 and view on tv if i go over the 100 albums the multimedia player will not intialize on to tv hope this is a bit clearer ann

[Guest Wolfeymole]

You can't wire a hard drive to a TV.

 

Have you got the hard drive hooked to a laptop and then viewing the output from the laptop on a TV?

 

Can you please include full stops and break your sentences down a bit so they are easier to read please also.

 

Please don't think us insulting.

[bella]

re hard drive

 

hi there

im not trying to wire a hard drive to a tv. i am connecting amultimedia player which has the 250 gig harddrive via av cable .and the only time it is conected to laptop is to transfer files.thanks ann:)

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Do you mean something like a Sky box or a Virgin Box that has a hard drive installed.

 

To me a multimedia player is something Windows media Player or VLC Media player.

 

Please tell us exactly just what this thing you have is.

 

Is it something similar to this?

 

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[bella]

re hard drive

 

What i have is a 250gig multimedia player. which is a powered external harddrive enclosure that will via a av cable connect to a tv. so you are able to view your pictures and video and mp3 .:)

[bella]

yes it is much the same as you have highlighted on your last write up. did not notice it before i typed.thanks ann:)

[Guest Wolfeymole]

We overlapped by writing at the same time, no worries.

 

Now, to place files on this drive you have used the laptop as stated so therefore it is a viable hard disk drive.

 

There should be no reason why you cannot remove all files from that drive and place them on the laptop temporarily while you format the drive to the NTFS format.

 

What seems to be happening here to me is that in a FAT32 structure only a certain amount of disk space is being recognised so hence your issue.

 

Given files eg MP3 or Pics are not reliant on a given file structure as you mistakenly stated here;

Hi maynardvdm the reason it is fats 32 is the multimedia player it goes in only supports that format i bought this

Please remove all files temp and format the drive to NTFS within Disk Management.

 

Disk Management can be found by right clicking My Computer/ Manage/Storage/Disk Management.

[bella]

apparently this media player only supports fats 32 which i agree is a pain :).:) i read the manual and it clearly states fats 32 only.

[Guest Wolfeymole]

That may be stated in the documentation but have you tried to format it to NTFS Bella?

[bella]

yes i have when i first purchased it.sadly:(