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Reading external hard drive on TV

gysmo -  
 Gysmo -
Hello
When I connect my external hard drive to my TV (TCL), a message indicates that the disk needs to be formatted to be read.
I would like to point out that the disk is read on my other TV (Samsung)
I also want to clarify that the disk is formatted in ExFat and has a capacity of 500 GB.
Finally, the disk contains MKV and AVI files
Thank you in advance.

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    jfmimi Posted messages 13734 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   1 929
     
    Hello
    surely your TV (TCL) does not recognize the ExFat format

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    1. Gysmo
       
      Thank you jfmimi
      But what format should I use?
      Thank you
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      1. jfmimi Posted messages 13734 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   1 929 > Gysmo
         
        try the format " NTFS "
        or the format " Fat32 " is universal, but does not support files larger than 3.8 GB
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      2. gysmo > jfmimi Posted messages 13734 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention  
         
        Thank you
        The files I want to read on the TV are around 400 MB and some can go up to 2 or even 3 GB at most
        But when I plug the drive into the TV, a message tells me I need to format the drive.
        So I don't know which format to choose.
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      3. jfmimi Posted messages 13734 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   1 929 > gysmo
         
        formatting erases everything
        so save the data before formatting the disk on your PC to " NTFS "
        and if " NTFS " is also not recognized, then format to " Fat32 "
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