Connect External Hard Drive to Toshiba Smart tv
You can connect your external hard drive to Toshiba smart tv and connect usb drive flash drive using USB port on back of your Toshiba smart tv and view files or photos or files or documents or watch movies which are in external hard drive and you can also increase storage space on Toshiba smart tv by connecting external hard drive to Toshiba smart tv. So, let’s see in detail below.
If you have connected your USB Drive or external hard drive to toshiba smart tv you can also experience issues like toshiba tv usb port not working or not detecting as well and connected external hard drive not showing up on toshiba smart tv and you can fix this issues easily and also connect Connect external hard drive to Toshiba TV via HDMI port also and make sure that format is NTFS file system or the FAT32 file system.
Follow below steps to connect your external hard drive to toshiba tv and access file on the external hard drive.
Step 1: Turn on your toshiba smart tv and grab your external hard drive and connect it to the usb port on back of your toshiba smart tv.
Step 2: Once you connect you need to wait for 10 to 15 seconds until your toshiba smart tv detects your external hard drive.
Step 3: Once toshiba smart tv detects an external hard drive you will see a message external hard disk plugged in.
Step 4: Now, grab your remote and press the home button -> Go to function menu on bottom of your Toshiba smart tv screen and select media.
Step 5: Now, you will be able to see your connected external hard drive here.
Step 6: Select the connected external hard drive and open it on toshiba smart tv and access files, movies or any other files present on toshiba smart tv.
That’s it, this is how you connect an external hard disk to your Toshiba smart tv.
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If you have not connected your external hard drive properly or not plugged in or having loose connection or your external hard drive is not supported with toshiba smart tv and if you have connected external hard drive properly then you need to power reset your toshiba smart tv and connect again.
To connect external hard drive to your toshiba smart tv using hdmi port you need to have a convertor cable which helps you connect usb port to hdmi port and connect your one end to your external hard drive and one end to your hdmi port on back of your toshiba smart tv and there are many usb to hdmi convertors available online and you can buy one of that which supports your external hard drive and helps you connect your external hard drive to toshiba tv using hdmi port.
If your toshiba smart tv is not detecting external hard drive then unplug connected external hard drive and then plug it again and if it doesn’t solve the problem then soft reset your toshiba smart tv by unplugging power cable and wait for 40 to 50 seconds and plug back power cable to toshiba tv and turn on and connect external hard drive to toshiba tv.
yes! you can connect and plug in external hard drive into Toshiba smart tv and watch movies or update software on Toshiba smart t that you have download to your hard drive and use external hard drive on Toshiba smart tv.
