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Wdtv media player usb12/18/2023 ![]() That said, here's a thread about Win 10 doing something to the drive that may cause it to fail being recognized on the WDTV. I've also noticed the USB ports tend to fail over time even if the drives are permanently connected to them. I've gone through multiple WDTVs ever since they were first introduced and I've replaced some of them because they wouldn't recognize my drives. Yesterday was a sad day as I finally replaced my beloved WDTV Gen 3 with a laptop because it wouldn't recognize some of my drives in an external case. I've been wanting to replace the WDTV, but haven't devoted any time to research that. I may try registering and posting about this problem. I intended to use the drive to store mkv files of some TV series ripped from Blu Ray and play them using the WDTV, so right now it is useless.Īny ideas? There appears to be a WDTV Forum website but it appears there have been no new postings there for a couple years. I have tried formatting the drive twice with no success with the WDTV. ![]() There were several test files on the disk. I went through the GPT to MBR procedure and the drive is recognized by Win 7 and WIN XP but not the WDTV - NO STORAGE PRESENT. I recently purchased a new WD Elements 2 TB USB drive. I did this to several drives over the past couple years. When I first encountered GPT I was able to use a WIN 7 PC to convert to MBR so the drive would work on my WDTV and WIN XP PC. They used to come with MBR partitions, a few years ago they switched to GPT partitions. I've been using Western Digital Elements or Passport 2 TB USB drives for several years. ![]() I still use a WDTV Live for playing video files on my HDTV. ![]()
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