Ext HDD on TV's

[Pedro_The_Swift]

After falling over at the recording rate of 5mb per SECOND, we seconded Mrs Pedro's external backup HDD to use as a recording medium.
At first the tv wouldnt recognise it, so a bit of research tells us it has to be formatted to fat32, no probs I thought, with XP, Vista and Win8 in the house one of them must be able to do that,, right? Nope. only options are NTFS and something called EXFAT.
EaseUS Partition master did it in about 4 seconds, took longer to download and install than format:p
TV and HDD are now best buds:cool:

I still find it hard to believe that something supplied through the air requires 5mb a second to record,,

[loanrangie]

Yep FAT32 seems to be the norm for most non pc hardware, windblows generally wants NTFS or EXFAT as you found out.

[luke68]

The culprit is Bill Gates! All external drives and USB is fat32 up till 32/64 gig. After that it's nfts. I had a similar problem with an old laptop hdd (160g). My cd tuner in the car can't recognise nfts files. searched the net and found a program that will format it in fat32.

cheers
luke