Accessing Sony TV External Hard Dive on Windows PC

[michaelaw]

I have a buffalo 2Tb external hard drive that I haveconnected to my New Sony Bravia TV via USB. I have registered the drive using the TV set up, and have successfully recorded onto it from the TV. Just for interest I wanted to see what file format the TV was using, so I connected up the HD to my Win 7 PC. The drive does not show up in Win Explorer but does show up in Computer management, as having 4 partitions, 2 of 8Mb 1 of 102Mb and one of 1862.9 Gb. They are described as Heathly Primary Partitions. I am unable to add a drive letter, the option is greyed out, the only thing that is available is the option to delete the volume! From internet searches it would appear that Sony Tvs use a ExFat format, which it would seem that Win7 should be able to read this format. I reconncted the drive to the TV, and it works fine. Do you have any idea whether it is possible to access drives used on a Sony TV on a PC and if so how?
Thanks for any help you can offer

[aedipuss]

not all exfat is created equal. an exfat drive created by formatting it on a mac won't work on a pc, i would assume the sony used something like that to create the format and it's just not pc compatible. i would try deleting all partitions and then formatting the drive to pc exfat and see if the sony can use it, if not the 2 are probably not going to share the drive.