VIZIO Tv won’t recognise Usb Flash Drive - FIX

Smart Tv VIZIO and USB drive fix - format using your Mac

[@r.l.hulbert3476]

All I want to know is how to find out how to use the USB ! My God

[@shivanieseepersaud6461]

Mines is not even showing smh

[@JerettFranklin]

Gracias güey

[@JoshPimental]

Mac should be in the title of the video, not help for most users.

[@miradayoub122]

Okay i tried but the problem is that when i format it doesnt show me the scheme to pick from it

[@JM-yx1lm]

Must be something you are doing because when you go to format a device, it ALWAYS ask you what format you want. Try harder bro.

[@psi-ops1397]

if using windows then you can download a little proggy called Rufus and it will allow you to format with an mbr partition, however it make no sense that a tv would require a mbr since it is a master boot record intended to assist a bios in booting from the thumb drive like when using a portable operating system install like linux.

[@abirduphigh]

So... “format your drive with FAT.” Thanks for the six minute long video lol

[@TechandDesign]

If that works on your tv sure. It’s not always that simple, so that’s why I explained the options

[@jbh4945]

FYI everyone: Vizio says when you turn the TV off you just have to unplug the USB and plug it back in.

[@ImActuallyGarbo]

Thanks yea my moms Samsung is different had to go MS-DOS Fat32 on my Vizio.

[@TechandDesign]

👍🏻

[@HBGURL8301]

My Dad thinks that I formatted my USB drive wrong. 🙄 No he's got a crappy Vizio that's not connected to the internet and it's not a Smart TV.

[@RockNRoller66]

There's no need to connect a tv to the internet to run a flash drive. You must have formatted it wrong.

[@LifeWithMarc100x]

hey

[@GrizzlyBearKing]

video content and description do not match!

[@TechandDesign]

how do they not match?

[@TechandDesign]

this is the fix. to properly format

[@mishulya49]

I don't see VISIO tv

[@TechandDesign]

😐

[@MS-mx8yj]

My TV a vizio won't recognize my hard drive? How do I get it to work?

[@johnsineni]

I think you fix it with a Roku or a Fire stick. I am probably going to be in the same situation. I heard your thumb drive needs to be 8gb or smaller and only USB 2.0. Bigger and newer is too much for the TV. very slim pickings of that small of a size, but I found one and trying in a few days.

[@johnsineni]

crazy update on my end. After setting up a Fire Stick and getting that to work. The next time I turned on my TV. I said Checking for updates in a text format I have never seen before, and now SmartCast works. WTF, it too a dam Fire Stick to fix the TV.

[@jorgevasquez-lz4be]

Where is the tv?

[@TechandDesign]

what you mean?

[@jorgevasquez-lz4be]

@@TechandDesign Yes your video is very well informative but I don’t see the tv to see the procedure I formatted my sandisk usb to exfat because fat 32 does not allowed more that 4g Now vizio tv instructions is telling me that I cant use exfat , only fat32 Now I cant reverse exfat to fat32 any advice? Thank so much 1. You must have a USB flash drive that is formatted in either FAT or FAT32

[@shmarrett]

it only plays mp4 right? that's a complete fail.

[@TechandDesign]

Depends on your tv

[@shmarrett]

@@TechandDesign true but it's wildly moronic only to allow for playback of mp4 - i think i have five mp4s out of 4500 movies and videos.

[@victorbruce5772]

Vizio USB media player is worst ever seen. Text is too small to read, or too big to fit on screen, file list layout is crap, listing part of files down, then having to go sideways to change pages. Can't stop a file and resume play, always restarts from beginning, can't scan fast forward or backward, except left or right 10 seconds at a time, holding button just repeats same 10 second jump over and over, so have to press and release, every time. Sound up down, press once for up down 1 level. Holding button to change more than 1 level, when release button sound keeps going up/down to 0 or 100, fumbling buttons to stop, accidentally hit other button, changes to smartcast, have to screw around to getback to USB, go back through directory, and restart movie from beginning. The absolute worst POS media player ever seen. And can't find any info about replacement update or other improved media app to install. TV not connected to internet, no wifi or streaming, just play media via USB, so need to find app to install, if any.