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1. #How to format my passport ultra to fat 32 how to#
2. #How to format my passport ultra to fat 32 movie#

It is possible that your TV will provide enough power to operate that drive, but it is also possible that your TV will not supply enough power. WD My Passport portable hard drives are powered by USB. If the portable file system is FAT32 (MSDOS (FAT)), both your TV and your Mac can read it. Can i use it for both my mac and TV? altough FAT32 has a limit size, it's okay for me. So, if the portable drive system is FAT32. Files under FAT32 can't be larger than 4 GB. The problem with FAT32 is that it has file size and disk size limitations, so you probably should not use it. Your TV should understand FAT32 and NTFS. You will probably have to buy a program for your Mac to make it able to write to NTFS drives, but FAT32 will probably work OK for free. There is almost no chance that your TV will understand this. It's going to be VERY difficult to get a drive that will work on a Mac and your TV. Usually the USB port can't provide enough power for an external disk drive unless the drive is small (maybe 500 MB or less). If you try to use a drive that does not have a power supply, you will probably have big problems. I get tired of people always apologizing when they know that it's not bad.įor the best chance of success, you need to be sure that whatever drive you get that it has a power supply. and then i put all my movies from my mac to drive around 120GB (around 1hrs) and connect to TV and yes, my TV can read all movies in my drive.

#How to format my passport ultra to fat 32 movie#

i can watch a movie there with my WD elements 1TB. and there's nothing happens, feel hopeless and it's around 40seconds, i try to press input button on my remote tv and there's my WD drive. mp4 movie it's around 2GB in my drive and then i connect it to my tv. after that, i try to put blurayrip 1080p.

#How to format my passport ultra to fat 32 how to#

And when i at home i reformated to FAT32, which you can know how to format it from the WD support web. Yesterday I bought WD Elements 1TB old Packaging not a new brown box, it's about $85. Please help, i made my id just want to ask this in this forum, i hope someone will help me. Is it compatible with my tv? if it's not, which portable drive is compatible with my tv? beside that, i use that portable drive with my macbook pro 10.7, It would be great if that portable drive will compatible with both my TV and Macbook. the problem is i don't know which portable drive is compatible with my tv. and i want to buy a portable drive to watch movie on my tv.