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| Thread ID: 102969 | 2009-09-08 02:24:00 | How do I find a corrupt video file | kiwibits (5574) | Press F1 |
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| 807859 | 2009-09-08 02:24:00 | Hi all. I have a media player type portable hard drive which plugs into a Tv. However its not managing to access the file system on the hard drive. I think it maybe a corrut video file (or maybe other type as I use it for backup as well). There are 1000's of files on the drive. How can I find out which one is guilty? It works fine when used as a portable hard drive pluged into the computer so I can access the drive to sort it out i just need to know how> TIA |
kiwibits (5574) | ||
| 807860 | 2009-09-08 03:20:00 | One corrupt video file won't affect the others. If the media player cannot access the filesystem, its likely that you have the drive formatted as NTFS, which most media players do not support. You will need to format it as fat32(right click drive>fomat). Copy the data to another location first. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 807861 | 2009-09-08 04:09:00 | It used to work but if nothing else come up I'lll try that. Ta for the help | kiwibits (5574) | ||
| 807862 | 2009-09-08 04:15:00 | I read the instructions (actualy I got my wife to, i was afraid some of my personal bits my fall off) and its meant to work with NTFS as well as PAL. | kiwibits (5574) | ||
| 807863 | 2009-09-08 04:25:00 | NTFS is a file system (not the NTSC TV/Video standard). But if it worked before and it's not working now. Try and run a surface test on it, and see if there are any errors on it. A single video files should not cause any problems to the whole system. What exactly is that media player? |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 807864 | 2009-09-08 04:40:00 | I wouldnt format it to FAT32, otherwise whatever files you xfer to it, (if you can), cant be over 4 GB | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 807865 | 2009-09-08 05:46:00 | The problem could be that the TV system scans to create thumbnails? If it encounters a bad file, it hangs. This can happen with windows. | linw (53) | ||
| 807866 | 2009-09-08 05:48:00 | I've had this in the past, I had to find it by a process of elimination, Remove half the videos and see what happens, if it hangs then remove half again, and again, until your down to the corrupt file. | Metla (12) | ||
| 807867 | 2009-09-08 08:39:00 | I wouldnt format it to FAT32, otherwise whatever files you xfer to it, (if you can), cant be over 4 GB 98% of MediaPlayers(the ones off TM) do not support NTFS! Kiwibits: I think you're confusing NTSC with NTFS...but since was working previously, this probably isn't the problem. Try doing a chkdsk /r on it. Run>cmd>chkdsk X: /r Replace X with the drive letter of the media player. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 807868 | 2009-09-08 08:43:00 | Most cheap freeview boxes with USB such as mine and Metla's will only read a drive in FAT32 | gary67 (56) | ||
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