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Hello all,
A good friend of mine bought a 3TB USB external HDD.
He did that as he has some films that want to take with him at his parents and his in-law’s summer houses.
This makes a sum of 3 different TV’s, all with USB port and in none of them the HDD works.
I tried making different partitions to try to get it working in his own TV but it was not possible…
Unless you tell me that there is a way to make external devices think the HDD is a 2TB device (which looks it is the limit of his TV), which external multimedia player would you recommend?
I’ve thought on a raspberry pi 3 with OSMC and the codecs and also the Western digital TV… but is there anything else that is more plug and play than the Raspberry and at the same time cheap?
Any hint about making a HDD to be recognized by a TV that doesn’t like HDD’s bigger than 2TB?
And about media players that can be plugged to a TV using HDMI and at the same time be plugged to a 3TB USB HDD?
PS: At home I do have Serviio installed. This would help and solve the problem at his house, but a DLNA software will not help in the other houses were he won't have a computer available.
As always thank you very much!
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Can't you repartition it to a 2TB and a 1TB drives?
The TV should see that as two volumes and work with at least one of them.
This may help: Free Partition Manager Software - AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard[^] it's pretty damn good!
Though IIRC my TV worked OK with my 4TB USB drives.
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That's what I thought and I tried it, but it seems it was not right on his TV...
I partitioned using NTFS and FAT32 to try what was suitable but I had no luck...
I'll try it again... now using AOMEI... I used another software (now I don't remember which one, but...).
Thank you!
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Who made the TV?
Mine an LG, and that's Linux / WebOS based.
Addendum: check the drive format. MBR is is limited to 2.2GB if it's 512 byte sectors, so you need a GPT partition table.
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Hi OG, I've been terribly busy, and I did not want to annoy you with details...
It is also a LG TV, an old one, today I've installed remotely the AOMEI software that you recommended me... tomorrow the owner of that HDD will bring me his laptop and his HDD and I'll be able to test it using my TV, which of course doesn't mean anything...
I will say something when I've made the tests and so...
Thank you as always!
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Thank you DaveAuld, I did not know about NVidia Shield. It looks promising.
He is not travelling with his laptop... in fact he wanted to move only with the HDD, but this option seems not possible given the tests...
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Joan Murt wrote: some films
 It should be possible to get around 100 movies minimum per TB. Does he really need 300+ movies for just one summer?
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Probably not...but which ones does he take? If you can take 'em all you can decide which to watch when you want to watch a movie. If you decide to watch Pulp Fiction, but you only brought "Frozen", "Finding Nemo", and "The Money Pit" it's too late! 
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I just installed my printer. I get loads of software that I can install (and foolishly did, except for one).
Nine additional items are listen in Programs and features, drivers, utilities, tools...
Some very annoying printing menu is shown at the bottom right of my screen.
The menu has lots of options.
Uninstalled the menu.
All I wanted was to print a PDF file.
Why so much stuff, I mean a menu that's always visible?
Who the hell prints SO much they need a menu every time they start their computer? 
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I guess they are hoping that since you have a menu, you'll use it to print a lot.
Since they make huge profits on the ink...
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Sander Rossel wrote: I mean a menu that's always visible?
Marketing would not want it any other way.
They probably think they are adding "value" 
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If value equals clutter on your computer then yes, they're adding lots of it 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Who the hell prints SO much they need a menu every time they start their computer?
A copy shop, print on demand?
You will soon see that the whole idea behind this software is to constantly remind you to buy fresh ink cartriges and conveniently send you to their webshop. I have an HP printer here that had all those convenient features and the Epson that replaced it does just the same. The cartriges that came with it had only enough ink to print a few test pages and then the sales show started.
I got myself five complete sets of ink cartriges, each with a second black cartridge, for 20 bucks. These are not original Epson cartriges, of course. Now the printer driver predicts the end of the world each time I turn on the printer. Fortunately they must offer the option to continue printing anyway, but that does not keep them from using their printer driver as scareware to get you to buy their vastly superior ink. Just click the link to their webshop.
They don't make any money with manufacturing printers anymore. Look at a printer from 1980 and you will see some minor differences in quality and workmanship. Today they make their profit with the ink, which simply costs at least five times as much as the chinese imitation.
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Some of it is actually genuine - but not much - the black inks are pigmented and the particle size has to be carefully controlled or it will block the head filter1. With Epson, you buy just the ink each time; the head is not replaced (unlike HP where the print head is part of the cartridge) so a problem with the pigments can wreck the printer. In addition, pigments undergo a process called "flocculation" over time which means they do have a specific use by date, which is why the cartridges have an electronic timestamp built in. The colour inks are dye based, so they don't have these problems, though the dyes can degrade over time.
But mostly it's just greed and scare tactics, yes!
1 - When I was dealing with the Xaar piezo heads, I fitted a 5 micron filter in the ink line to the head to "save" the 10 micron built in filter and specified an annual replacement schedule. See, I'm not immune to the lure of "value of consumables" either!
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CDP1802 wrote: Now the printer driver predicts the end of the world each time I turn on the printer
I knew a programmer would ultimately be our undoing!
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CDP1802 wrote: Today they make their profit with the ink, which simply costs at least five times as much as the chinese imitation printer.
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CDP1802 wrote: I have an HP printer
Just curious since I haven't owned a *HACK* HP *SPIT* printer in about a decade... Back then HPs bundle of crapware was larger than the OS. Vista/7/8/10 are all much larger than XP was; has HPs bloatware team managed to catch up and regain their lead in disk space wasted?
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modified 13-Jun-16 8:58am.
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I made that mistake only once and since then I simply ignore it and just install the printer driver and nothing more. I just can't tell you how bad it is now, but the driver already is all about paper and ink selling, so I assume that all those great (CR)apps, toolbars and updaters are at least just as bad.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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The media suites that come free with printers are an often undiscovered gem.
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jkadjthegamegadhguaet wrote: The media suites that come free with printers are an often undiscovered gem pile of sh1te
You need to practice writing in English more.
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1) The extra officials on the goal line are a complete waste of space. If you can't see a mugging from 5 yards then what's the point of you?
2) Glenn Hoddle knows less about football than the average snail - perfect qualifications for being England manager all those years ago, obviously.
3) A team that has drawn or lost has not "done enough to win" despite what idiot commentators may say! You cannot turn a statistical certainty into matter of opinion.
4) Gareth Bale is living proof of the maxim it is better to be lucky than to be good (but, well done Wales)
5) Harry Kane is rubbish at corners and free kicks so obviously it is essential that he continues to take them!
6) I hate football sometimes. Of course that won't stop me watching all tomorrow's games!
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7) Football is the minor event to some spectators to the brawling and rioting.
modified 12-Jun-16 4:35am.
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