I have a samsung dvd player and i want to connect my seagate 1.5tb external hard drive but when i put it into the usb it does read any files on the hard drive. do i need to format the external hard drive or what?

Hi.

On order to make an external hard drive readable from a dvd player you need to reformat the hard drive to fat32 format. Most DVD players are only able to read drives formatted in the FAT32 system,

To format the ext hard drive to Fat32 you will need to connect it to your computer first to carry out the formatting.

1) Click "Start" then "Run"

2) Type "CMD" into the text box, then press "Enter."

3) Type "Format /FS:FAT32 X:" into the command prompt, replacing the letter "X" with the actual drive letter of your USB hard drive. If you do not know the drive letter of your hard drive, open "My Computer" and look under "Devices with removable storage." BE SURE YOU HAVE SELECTED THE CORRECT DRIVE LETTER TO FORMAT. Then press "Enter".

4) Press "Y" when you have identified the correct drive and you are ready to format the hard drive. All data present on the drive will be erased once it has been formatted. The drive will now be formatted to FAT 32

5) Load the films onto the USB hard drive. Be aware FAT32 file system cannot support files larger than four gigabytes.

6) Connect the ext hard drive to your DVD player via usb and select "USB Device" or it may be labelled as external device. Your DVD player should recognise the device and play the films.

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No, the external hard drive isn't compatible to your Samsung: that USB connector has been designed to accept only USB memory sticks that are 16 GB or less. There is nothing that can be done to make it accept an 1.5 TB hard disk.

The usb on the unit is too basic to run an external hard drive and currently they don't have an upgrade to make it work.