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What should be USB disk format over 4GB?

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 10:01 am
by Cinquanta
I can't play movies greater than 4GB capacity with an external USB disk. The television could not detect the USB disk.

I am using an Apple Mac. The available disk utility format types are:
- OS X Extended (Journaled)
- OS X Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)
- MS-DOS (FAT)
- ExFAT

It laso has schemes to when you erase a drive:
- GUID Partition map
- Master Boot Record
- Apple Partition Map

Which capacity of USB disk can be used with which format?

Television fw version is T-GAPDEUC-1021.2, BT-G
Model code UE55D7000LSXTK
Version no H302

Thanks a lot.

Re: What should be USB disk format over 4GB?

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 10:27 am
by notengo13
Don't use Apple Mac. Or buy iApple iSmart TV iSamsung.
There is much more stuff then iShit.
Format drive in NTFS - $dows
Or ext3, ext4 formated drive - Linux

Re: What should be USB disk format over 4GB?

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 10:46 am
by zoelechat
Not sure ext3/4 are natively supported for external devices on D (they're also not on E). I think without tricking NTFS is only choice :)

Re: What should be USB disk format over 4GB?

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 11:33 am
by Cinquanta
Thank you for the answers. Will NTFS format type be useful starting from 8GB of USB stick up to 1TB? Will the SAMSUNG TV detect it and play the movies in it?

Re: What should be USB disk format over 4GB?

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 12:36 pm
by notengo13
NTFS and exFAT support files bigger than 4GB. You can try it format with ntfs and copy movie and play it.

Re: What should be USB disk format over 4GB?

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 10:51 am
by Cinquanta
Thank you both for your advices. Yes, NTFS is the solution for my question. I tried and succeded. The only problem is as I have Mac mini and it has not this utility. So I downloaded trial version of NTFS for Mac from http://www.tuxera.com.
I wish mac had this utility, too.

Re: What should be USB disk format over 4GB?

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 2:19 pm
by zoelechat
Install Windows ;)

Re: What should be USB disk format over 4GB?

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 2:46 pm
by notengo13
Or ntfs-3g opensource utility also for ishit devices. Other easier way is download Gparted Live CD/USB.
http://gparted.org/livecd.php