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Question

Help with WD elements Desktop Formatting

Mar 9, 2016 7:26PM PST

Hi everyone,
I have a WD Elements Desktop 4TB hard drive on NTFS format. This hard drive used to work when I plugged it directly into my TV with its NTFS format. Recently I had to reformat it for a short time to FAT32, I then put it back to NTFS and now it's not working on my TV at all.

I'm just confused as to why it's not working with NTFS when it 100% worked fine before! If any of you have any idea why this may be happening please let me know!

Thanks
Beccy

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WD should have the steps to format.
Mar 9, 2016 7:58PM PST

Let's find out.

http://support.wdc.com/KnowledgeBase/answer.aspx?ID=1550 refers us to article #3865 with more details for windows versions.

That looks right to me.

But about the TV. Many don't support such a large drive and may work when the drive's contents are under some unpublished limits (track, GB etc.)

I'd use a 1TB drive for the TV.

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RE: Help with WD elements Desktop Formatting
Mar 22, 2016 6:26PM PDT