Mypassport essential with Sony home cinema BDV F500

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Hi,

i’ve just bought a WD passport essential external drive, and my sony home cinema doesn’t recognize it !! What can i Do ?

Before I had a Lacie external drive and there were no problem.

Thanks

PA

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You’ll probably get more help in the TV sectiion. Check and see how the drive needs to be formatted. It may need to be formatted FAT32 also the unlocker may cause problems.

Joe

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paarend wrote:

Hi,

i’ve just bought a WD passport essential external drive, and my sony home cinema doesn’t recognize it !! What can i Do ?

Before I had a Lacie external drive and there were no problem.

Thanks

 

PA

There could be a lack of power or the drives files system needs to be changed 

Must media devices require  FAT32

Check with the TV manufacturer to see how many MA does the usb port on the TV supply

I’m guessing the Lacie drive had a power adapter and that’s why it worked

If there’s a power issue, try getting a WD Elements Desktop

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The lacie doesn’t have any supply adaptor, and I cannot format my WD in fat32, I only find EXFAT … ididn’t know this …

any Ideas ?

Sony told me that I have to format in FAT32 as well…

How to format in FAT32 when the format option doesn’t give you this option ?

Thanks

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I don’t know which OS you are using but I don’t think you can format FAT32 from Windows 7 you probably need a third party format tool. WD has a Quick format tool http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=214&lang=en  see if that works.

Joe

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paarend wrote:

The lacie doesn’t have any supply adaptor, and I cannot format my WD in fat32, I only find EXFAT … ididn’t know this …

any Ideas ?

Sony told me that I have to format in FAT32 as well…

How to format in FAT32 when the format option doesn’t give you this option ?

Thanks

Try   EASEUS Partition Master