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I have a tv monitor samsung B2330HD and i bought an hdd WD Elements 500GB but when i plug the WD via usb, it doesn't recognized. Why is that?

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Do you have a USB cable that goes from the monitor to the PC? Have you tried plugging the external drive into the PC directly? A TV for a monitor is just that; a monitor. It's not a PC, the USB port on a monitor is just a pass through to the PC. So unless you have a USB cable from the monitor to the PC it won't "see" it.

  • Nick Karanikolas Oct 11, 2013

    usb port in this tv-monitor is for external drives or usb sticks, so that you can see pictures or listen mp3's etc... It has nothing to do with pc. Thank you for your help!

  • Coss Oct 11, 2013

    Dug a little deeper on it. Make sure you are plugging it into the "USB IN" port , If it still doesn't "see" it have you tried plugging it into a PC just to make sure the drive is good? Also, that TV is 3 years old, and there is a very good chance it does not support a drive as large as 500GB. If anything, try copying some of the files from that drive, to a regular 16GB or 32GB stick, then plug the stick in to see if it will "see" the format the files are in.

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