[Help] USB Stick not being recognized.

[jimc]

Firstly apologies that this isn't a guide or tutorial but I am hoping one of you could help me with this problem and possibly post a guide for me and anyone else who has the same problem.

I download files onto a USB stick and then stick them into a media player that connects to my TV via a hdmi cable so I can watch porn and movies I download on my TV. I haven't had issues doing this but bought a new 64gb usb stick recently and while it gets recognized by my PC to load things on, it doesn't get recognized by the media player.

I have tried to NTFS from exFAT but it still wasn't recognizes and then I even tried to format it to FAT32 via CMD but it failed saying the drive was too large.

I know there are some smart people on here that know way more than me about tech things and wondered if there is anything else I can try to get this USB stick to show up.

[SirKenros]

2 hours ago, jimc said:

Firstly apologies that this isn't a guide or tutorial but I am hoping one of you could help me with this problem and possibly post a guide for me and anyone else who has the same problem.

I download files onto a USB stick and then stick them into a media player that connects to my TV via a hdmi cable so I can watch porn and movies I download on my TV. I haven't had issues doing this but bought a new 64gb usb stick recently and while it gets recognized by my PC to load things on, it doesn't get recognized by the media player.

I have tried to NTFS from exFAT but it still wasn't recognizes and then I even tried to format it to FAT32 via CMD but it failed saying the drive was too large.

I know there are some smart people on here that know way more than me about tech things and wondered if there is anything else I can try to get this USB stick to show up.

Windows has a pseudo partition size limit of 32GB for FAT32 to promote NTFS instead.

There could be numerous reasons why your new USB might not be working on your media player. Check your media player's manual for the file systems it supports and then try formatting the USB using a MBR partition of the supported file system rather than the newer GPT partition. I'm pretty sure NTFS would be supported.

[jimc]

I have managed to format it into FAT32 thans to your advise but it is still not being recognized by the player. Other USB sticks I have are FAT32 and they are recognized and work without any problems.

 

It is an old player though and I no longer have the manual. Do you think it being old and the USB stick being new might be a reason? I can't even remember when I got it, it was years ago and the USB sticks I use that work are all from around the same time. 

 

 

[SirKenros]

7 hours ago, jimc said:

I have managed to format it into FAT32 thans to your advise but it is still not being recognized by the player. Other USB sticks I have are FAT32 and they are recognized and work without any problems.

 

It is an old player though and I no longer have the manual. Do you think it being old and the USB stick being new might be a reason? I can't even remember when I got it, it was years ago and the USB sticks I use that work are all from around the same time. 

 

 

Did you create an MBR FAT32 partition? To the best of my knowledge, given that all new USB standards are backwards compatible, the new USB stick should not be an issue per that regard, but the power requirement could be.

Unfortunately, the fastest way to resolve this issue would be to google and cross off the solutions that don't work.

[jimc]

Yeah I googled MBR partition to format 64gb USB drive to FAT 32 and downloaded something that has formatted it to FAT 32 but it still doesn't show up when I plug it in the player.

 

There doesn't seem to be any other solutions on google.