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USB Works on PC but not LGTV

saminam
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As the title says i have a 32 GB USB i typically put movies on in the form of MP4 and MKV files. I also have the exact same type of USB but it is 64 GB in size. I used to put movies on the smaller USB and plug it into my old LGTV to watch them. It worked fine and all was well. One day as i was leaving to dog sit a family members house I copied over as many movies i liked as I can as they also have an older LGTV. As soon as i got there and from that point on of plugging it into their LGTV i have received the error "File or directory damaged: failed to read USB".

 

The USB works perfectly on all PCs and when scanned for errors there is none. I have also tried formatting the drive to each type and plugging it into the TV again.Nothing. I am at a loss as what to do. if I google the error i get forum posts and questions that end up with the poster being ignored and a fix never being mentioned. Any help on what could possibly be wrong would be appreciated. Is it possible i removed the USB while it was still copying data and it somehow only damaged it in a way it wont work with the TV ? Thanks in advance for any replies.

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17 hours ago, saminam said:
 

Hi I have already tried formatting to FAT32, This doesnt fix it.

W10 cant format FAT32, it uses ExFAT which is not quite the same thing and can lead to issues.

 

It could also be a file format issue.

 

Lastly, it could be that someone nuked the USB port.

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On 10/4/2019 at 5:54 PM, KarathKasun said:

W10 cant format FAT32, it uses ExFAT which is not quite the same thing and can lead to issues.

 

It could also be a file format issue.

 

Lastly, it could be that someone nuked the USB port.

So when I format into fat32 its not actually formatting to fat32 ? The file format option seems unlikely as it was onl an mp4 file i had on the drive. Also nuked as in the USB is broken ? Im not 100% on what "nuked" means

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5 hours ago, saminam said:

So when I format into fat32 its not actually formatting to fat32

I ran into a similar problem with the USB in my car.

 

Check the drive and make sure it's partitioned in MBR and not GPT. See here for instructions to convert (if it's the case).

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7 hours ago, saminam said:

So when I format into fat32 its not actually formatting to fat32 ? The file format option seems unlikely as it was onl an mp4 file i had on the drive. Also nuked as in the USB is broken ? Im not 100% on what "nuked" means

Yeah, destroyed.

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