usb drive MS-DOS FAT formatting

[zoran]

Im trying to play a movie on my smart tv using a usb drive. Ive formatted it as MS-DOS FAT but the drive isnt found on the smart tv. Ive also formatted other usb drives by the same method and th drive isnt recognised in Windows 7. Im beginning to think that maybe Disk Utility isnt formatting the usb drive correctly although MS-DOS FAT formatting is selected. Whats is going on? Has this occurred to anyone else?

 

[joevt]

Did you format with Master Boot Record or GUID Partition Map? I think it should be Master Boot Record.
diskutil list

 

[DeltaMac]

Have you tried formatting your USB drive on your Windows system?
(Fat32 will have a file size limit of 4GB - so you will need to watch out for that with movies.)

 

[zoran]

Did you format with Master Boot Record or GUID Partition Map? I think it should be Master Boot Record.

It was formated with GUID Partition Map... hmm ill check that.
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Have you tried formatting your USB drive on your Windows system?
(Fat32 will have a file size limit of 4GB - so you will need to watch out for that with movies.)

I dont have a Windows computer unfortunately. Although i formatted it as Fat right now, i just tranfered up to 35Gb of data.

 

[joevt]

It was formated with GUID Partition Map... hmm ill check that.
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I dont have a Windows computer unfortunately. Although i formatted it as Fat right now, i just tranfered up to 35Gb of data.

Try MBR instead of GPT.
Do any of the files in the 35 GB of data have a size greater than 4 GB (check the originals, sort by size)?

 

[zoran]

Works with MBR.
Oh so each file must not be larger than 4GB... i get thanks guys!!!