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To: PJBankard
> The USB is likely formatted to a file system version that windows doesn’t read. Try formatting the USB to FAT32 and copying over the data again.

Maybe, if the Dish DVR did the formatting itself, but I think that is unlikely... but I don't know.

I suspect it's not actually the format of the flash drive (filesystem), but the format of the video files themselves, that is the problem.

8 posted on 03/17/2017 7:54:24 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

The Dish DVR DOES reformat the flash drive before copying.


11 posted on 03/17/2017 7:56:41 AM PDT by lafroste (Look at my profile page. Thanks.)
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To: dayglored

The issue as stated by the OP is that Windows won’t read the USB, not that it won’t read the files. It is a file system issue.


22 posted on 03/17/2017 8:09:22 AM PDT by PJBankard
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To: dayglored

Possibly. I have worked with DVRs for video surveillance that store videos in MP4 but use some special compression algorithms so that you cannot actually view them as regular mp4’s. They require a proprietary viewer software to read the file. It’s possible that regular tv DVRs might be doing something similar.


29 posted on 03/17/2017 8:26:02 AM PDT by Boogieman
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