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Thread ID: 124417 2012-04-25 20:45:00 playing external Hard Drive Media Player to a TV rosenmarsh (16764) Press F1
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1271894 2012-05-01 21:42:00 hmmm, windows 98 might do it if you can find a machine that old other wise try this www.makeuseof.com
seems like XP can do it from the command line
dugimodo (138)
1271895 2012-05-01 21:45:00 www.verbatim.com

or

www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk

should help you get back to Fat32. Good luck.
Iantech (16386)
1271896 2012-05-01 21:47:00 I downloaded FAT32 Formatter and will let you know how it goes rosenmarsh (16764)
1271897 2012-05-01 22:38:00 Most TVs(if not all) only read FAT32. Once you reformat the media drive back to FAT32 and copy in your files then I would expect that you will be good to go. Bryan (147)
1271898 2012-05-08 20:58:00 Everything sorted - I used www.verbatim.com as the interface was very simple, converted to FAT 32 and away. I think the problem was that I had reformatted the drive to NTFS and not realised it wasn't compatible with playing to TV.
The picture doesn't fill the whole screen - bands at top and bottom. Is there any way to make these smaller? - I have played with media player preferences: NTSC and PAL and also TV display (wide,normal/ps, normal/lb) but that is best I can get it. The DVD player picture has smaller bands at top and bottom...

Anyway thanks again for all your help ;)

Matthew
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