Tv not detecting USB disk

[Wictorian]

My tv detects 3 other usb disks but not a particular one. How can I solve it?

[Radium_Angel]

13 minutes ago, Wictorian said:

a particular one

What are the details of said stick? How is it formatted? How big is it?

[Wictorian]

32 gb, USB3 It was NTFS and  I changed it to Fat32 

@Radium_Angel

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, Wictorian said:

32 gb, USB3 It was NTFS and  I changed it to Fat32 

@Radium_Angel

Will the TV see such a large stick? I have a client with a very old TV which sees up to 8GB, but anything else, even formatted right, no go. I always assumed it was a hard coded limitation.

[Wictorian]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

Will the TV see such a large stick? I have a client with a very old TV which sees up to 8GB, but anything else, even formatted right, no go. I always assumed it was a hard coded limitation.

Well, seems probable, it is 8 years old, but it sees 16 gb drives. What if I split the stick into 2?

[Radium_Angel]

3 minutes ago, Wictorian said:

Well, seems probable, it is 8 years old, but it sees 16 gb drives. What if I split the stick into 2?

Couldn't hurt to try.

Or format as just plain fat16, and see what portion of the USB stick it sees.

[Wictorian]

Just now, Radium_Angel said:

Couldn't hurt to try.

Or format as just plain fat16, and see what portion of the USB stick it sees.

I only have NTFS, FAT32 and exFAT

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, Wictorian said:

I only have NTFS, FAT32 and exFAT

try this

https://www.instructables.com/id/Format-USB-Flash-Drive-to-FATFAT16-not-FAT32/

 

Rufus (program) may also be of some help

[Wictorian]

I have sd card formatter, would that work?

@Radium_Angel

[Radium_Angel]

3 minutes ago, Wictorian said:

I have sd card formatter, would that work?

@Radium_Angel

A hardware device? Unsure what use it would be on this.

[Wictorian]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

A hardware device? Unsure what use it would be on this.

No, it is a software

[Radium_Angel]

12 minutes ago, Wictorian said:

No, it is a software

Couldn't hurt to try...

[Wictorian]

Just now, Radium_Angel said:

Couldn't hurt to try...

ok man thanks for your help

[Radium_Angel]

2 minutes ago, Wictorian said:

ok man thanks for your help

Yeah, report back your findings...happy to help out

[Wictorian]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

Yeah, report back your findings...happy to help out

It  also says it is type SD HC dont know what that means

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, Wictorian said:

SD HC

Secure Digital High Capacity.

It's probably not seeing the USB stick as a USB stick, but rather as what it's supposed to format (the SD card)

But a format is a format, if it works, it works...

[LAwLz]

1 minute ago, Wictorian said:

It  also says it is type SD HC dont know what that means

SDHC is a type of SD card.

 

I don't think SD card formatter will work on a USB memory stick because that program is designed for SD cards, and my understanding is that you are using a USB memory stick or something like that. Is that correct?

[Wictorian]

1 minute ago, LAwLz said:

SDHC is a type of SD card.

 

I don't think SD card formatter will work on a USB memory stick because that program is designed for SD cards, and my understanding is that you are using a USB memory stick or something like that. Is that correct?

Yeah yeah, I am just dumb to try sd card formatter

[LAwLz]

7 minutes ago, Wictorian said:

Yeah yeah, I am just dumb to try sd card formatter

Try plugging all three disks into Windows and compare them.

Are they formatted the same? Do they show up the same? Can all three be read and written to by Windows?

[Wictorian]

Just now, LAwLz said:

Try plugging all three disks into Windows and compare them.

Are they formatted the same? Do they show up the same? Can all three be read and written to by Windows?

Yeah, I have been using them for quite a while and they dont cause any problems on windows. Just one is usb 3 and 32 gbs

[LAwLz]

1 hour ago, Wictorian said:

Yeah, I have been using them for quite a while and they dont cause any problems on windows. Just one is usb 3 and 32 gbs

It could be a USB 3.0 issue then. That your TV doesn't support USB 3.0. USB 3.0 should be backwards compatible with 2.0 but I can't really think of any other reason.

[Wictorian]

1 hour ago, LAwLz said:

It could be a USB 3.0 issue then. That your TV doesn't support USB 3.0. USB 3.0 should be backwards compatible with 2.0 but I can't really think of any other reason.

Actually I just solved it but I havent tried it yet with full capacity (32 gb full)