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Playing movies from external hard drive

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Vanessa - Dec 3, 2010 at 01:01 AM
 Blocked Profile - Dec 6, 2010 at 05:29 AM
I have an external hard drive that I would like to load all my DVD movies onto and play on a portable DVD player. I tried saving the movies as AVI/MPEG4/JPEG unfortunately the external DVD player did not recognise the files. I tried formatting the external hard drive to FAT32, however I have an error message stating the volume is too big for FAT32. Grateful for any advise on what to do next.
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Blocked Profile
Dec 3, 2010 at 04:28 AM
Hi,

Formatting it to Fat32 is good step taken by you.I guess your hard drive is of more than 100 Gb.Create a partition on your external device from disk management of 20Gb and add the movies to it then plug to video with the supported video formats it will be played.

Thanks
Vanessa
Dec 3, 2010 at 04:56 AM
thanks - how do I do it?
Blocked Profile
Dec 3, 2010 at 05:10 AM
Hi,

You are using vista or xp as os?
vanessa
Dec 3, 2010 at 06:11 PM
laptop is running windows 7 (external hard drive blank of course)
Blocked Profile
Dec 6, 2010 at 05:29 AM
Hi,

Access disk management by opening run then enter this command, : diskmgmt.msc pressing enter/ok.Now you will see your device right click on it and select shrink ,input 20000 then create new partition selecting Fat file system.

Thanks

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