[SOLVED] External hard drive

[Angry_Rabbit]

Hi , I am using a 2tb external hard drive on my Samsung smart tv
I have so many movies on the drive it takes ages to scroll through so I thought , stick them into folders A,B,C. Etc. That works fine but as the drive filled , I transferred all the data into my 4tb drive .
Now the file folders I made up in the 2tb open but the new files I dropped into ABC and such in my 4tb show empty , but on my laptop where I drop them from shows them there and can play both hdds are seagate the only difference is storage
Any help in making the new files stick in my 4tb would be great
Thanks

 

[SamirD]

Your TV is probably looking for a MBR partition, which isn't possible on 512k sectored drives above 2TB. Now, all modern drives are actually 4k sectors and use 512k emulation (aka 512e) so if there is a way to format the drive natively for 4k sectors, you can actually make an MBR partition as large as 16TB. But this is a rare bird to say the least.

However, western digital makes it very easy on their 'easystore' drives. They have a utility that will format the drive for 'xp compatibility' and that makes the drive's 4k native sectors appear as 4k to the device. By doing so, you can create an MBR partition of 4TB and should be able to copy everything back to the drive and see it all.