why does my external HD not register on my tv

lulah04

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after Reformatting my External WD HD from NTFS to exFAT and now it does not show up on my tv when i plug it in can anyone help with this please
 
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Hey there, lulah04!

I think that the majority of TVs support only FAT32 and NTFS formatted storage devices.
In order for your WD external hard drive to be recognized, I believe you should re-format it again and see if that will get your TV to detect it.
Here's link to our knowledge base that explains how to perform this: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=R4EsiO

Hope this helps. Keep me posted! :)
SuperSoph_WD

SuperSoph_WD

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Hey there, lulah04!

I think that the majority of TVs support only FAT32 and NTFS formatted storage devices.
In order for your WD external hard drive to be recognized, I believe you should re-format it again and see if that will get your TV to detect it.
Here's link to our knowledge base that explains how to perform this: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=R4EsiO

Hope this helps. Keep me posted! :)
SuperSoph_WD
 
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