FIX: Usb Drive or External Drive cant Read or Recognize the WD TV LIve Player
This guide is just a simple fix if one of your Usb or External Drive cant detect the WD TV LIve Streaming Media Player.
If Formatting your USB/External Drive in Windows under My Computer wont work
You may want to try this Guide
- Do not Update your Firmware via WiFi
- Update your WD TV LIve SMP to the Latest Firmware using Wired Connection only
- After a successfull Firmware Update, do a Hard Reset by Pressing the small button Under WD TV LIve
- Prepare your Usb, you may want to back-up your files
- DownLoad and Install â> HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool
- Insert Usb to your PC
- Open HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool
- Carefully Select your Usb in Device Details and Select Continue
- In HDD LLF Low Level Format Tab, Check the Perform a Quick Wipe, Then Click Format This Device
- Carefully Select your Usb Device, Then rReFomat it
- Done
- Now, You can transfer your Movie Files in your Usb/External Drive
- TURN OFF MEDIA LIBRABRY in WD Tv Live Setting
- Insert your Usb/External Drive to the WD TV LIve SMP, and it can now Read and Recognize your Device
Tips: If your WD Tv Live can now detect the Usb/External Device successfully but canât Play one of your videos, Solution is just donât put your Video Files inside the Folder. Move it directly inside your Usb Device, Donât create any folder, just your Video files and the Subtitles.
Last Week i bought this brand new WD TV Live Player [Gen3]
Update it to the Latest Firmware over the wifi, everything seems to be working great
Until, when i insert any of Usb Thumb Drives, it just canât Read it or Detect it
So, I canât watch any of my Movies
Frustation sets in, in my mind, i shouldnât bougth this piece of Junk.
Hey, it Should have Read any kind of Usb or External Drives for the 1st place, Right?
It should be Plug and Play, So I Searched Google to Find a Solution and brought me to this site
I followed some Instruction in this site, but all FAILED!
So, Iâve Come to this Fix and sharing it to the others who had the same problem.
Thereâs no need to press the reset button, it can be done via menu. Wifi or wired wonât make a difference cause the update wonât start till the file has been downloaded completely. And whoâs doing a low level format on their drives these days?
Last Week i bought this brand new WD TV Live Player [Gen3]
Update it to the Latest Firmware over the wifi, everything seems to be working great
Until, when i insert any of Usb Thumb Drives, it just canât Read it or Detect it
So, I canât watch any of my Movies
Frustation sets in, in my mind, i shouldnât bougth this piece of Junk.
Hey, it Should have Read any kind of Usb or External Drives for the 1st place, Right?
It should be Plug and Play, So I Searched Google to Find a Solution and brought me to this site
I followed some Instruction in this site, but all FAILED!
So, Iâve Come to this Fix and sharing it to the others who had the same problem.
The question is how did you âcomeâ to this fix? This is a user to user forum so you are allowed to be questioned over any information you add to the forum. Thatâs how users will be able to determine if its a fix or just a series of things that you strung together which happened to work.
Last Week i bought this brand new WD TV Live Player [Gen3]
Update it to the Latest Firmware over the wifi, everything seems to be working great
Until, when i insert any of Usb Thumb Drives, it just canât Read it or Detect it
So, I canât watch any of my Movies
Frustation sets in, in my mind, i shouldnât bougth this piece of Junk.
Hey, it Should have Read any kind of Usb or External Drives for the 1st place, Right?
It should be Plug and Play, So I Searched Google to Find a Solution and brought me to this site
I followed some Instruction in this site, but all FAILED!
So, Iâve Come to this Fix and sharing it to the others who had the same problem.
If you believe that every computer-based device (except the WD TV Live) will be able to use any data storage device, then you donât know much about computer filesystems. There are more than a dozen filesystems in common use, and no OS can read/write them all. If that makes a device junk, then every computer/OS is junkâparticularly Windows. Windows canât read the Mac OS X filesystem, any Linux filesystems, and on and on. Heck, it canât even deal with a USB drive that has more than one partition on it. Talk about junk!
There are a number of reasons why the WD TV Live devices might not have handled your USB drive. Was it formatted with MSâs new, proprietary exFAT? The WD units donât support that filesystem. If you want to blame anyone for this, it should be Microsoft, since they decided to patent exFAT and try to extort more money out of computer users. If the drive was NTFS formatted, it might not have been cleanly unmounted. Many systems refuse to mount NTFS filesystems that are marked âdirty.â
Out of interest from looking at the images on the post it appears that this âfixâ has only been used on a 16GB SanDisk Cruzer Blade USB flash drive! You should also note that the HP format tool used is designed for use with USB flash drives. I would suggest that you procede with caution if you intend using this method on your new 2TB USB drive.