I plugged my external USB drive into my Samsung TV to watch a film, worked fine.
I then plugged it back into my pc and it tells me drive not accesible.
I've tried all usb ports on the pc without success. Any ideas? Cheers
Reboot the computer before you plug the hard drive back into it. Click on the power icon, then restart.
Plugged it back in to the tv and can browse and access files, rebooted the pc and plugged in and get a "j is not accessible acces
s denied" I changed the drive letter and get the same message.
diskpart
list disk
select disk # <- replace # with the actual number for the USB disk
detail disk
What are the results?
Code:C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.610 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. On computer: JOHN-LAPTOP DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 476 GB 2048 KB * Disk 1 Online 476 GB 0 B * DISKPART> select disk 1 Disk 1 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> detail disk SK hynix SC311 SATA 512GB Disk ID: {246D39B3-BEAE-4D3E-9CCF-0476A206B456} Type : SATA Status : Online Path : 0 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1700)#ATA(C00T00L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : No Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 3 D Data NTFS Partition 468 GB Healthy Volume 4 FAT32 Partition 8 GB Healthy Hidden
Disk 9. Online. 1863 GB. 0 B
This is why I would see users have dedicated drives for their consoles and smart TV's. There always seems to be this sort of thing happening.
What I think happened is that the files system was corrupted or more likely switched to a file format that the PC doesn't recognize anymore and therefore can't read it.
I wonder if you can run a linux distro from a USB on the PC and then connect the drive in question....will the distro pick up the drive.
Some Linux LiveDVDs have GPARTED or that program can be downloaded as an .iso used to create the bootable GPARTED LiveCD. Nice thing about GPARTED is it can work with a number of drive formats, could be that portable drive got formatted or the formatting screwed up by the TV. Windows doesn't work with many drive formats, part of why I keep a Linux machine available. Similar with Mac OS X, could read but not write NTFS without additional software, haven't checked the newer/replacement macOS.
Thanks chaps, I think I have gparted knocking around somewhere I'll give it a crack tomorrow, cheers.
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