Welcome to the Samsung forum on CNET! Samsung worked with CNET to create a forum where people can ask questions and talk about all Samsung products and get help with everything from HDTVs, Smart TVs, home theater components, phones, cameras to monitors and printers. This forum is staffed by Samsung employees, but as we have seen in the past, often the most helpful answers come from CNET forum members themselves so please don't consider this just a Q and A with Samsung. This is a CNET forum and Samsung is here to be part of the conversation. I have just installed my brand new 8 series TV (UE40D8000), plugged a Seagate 500GB USB2.0 HDD in which it recognised and formatted. Tested recording live tv, which it did fine and I could play back the recordings. Set a few shows to record, put the TV on standby and left it for a few days.

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When I come back to look for the recorded shows, the Samsung TV is saying there is no device attached and obviously I cant access any shows. I plugged the hard drive into my PC to see if ANYTHING was on it, and obviously Windows asked to format it, and Ubuntu said there was nothing on it. So what the heck happened there! I have exactly the same problem. I have an external HDD (a Samsung original HDD that I just bought a few weeks ago for this purpose). I plugged it in to my Samsung SMart TV UE46D8000 - the HDD got recognized and formatted - and I strarted to record TV on it. But a couple of weeks later I could suddenly not access the recordings anymore.

The error message I get when trying to access 'Recorded TV' from the Smart menu is 'There is no device connected.' Obviously I have tried everything. Disconnect / reconnect.

COnnect to different USB ports. Turn off TV completely, wait a few minutes, turn on, then connect the HDD.

I have even reformatted the HDD on a PC (losing my TV recordings), and then reconnecting it to the Samsung TV in hope that the TV would now re-discover the HDD (as it did the first time a attached it), and give me the option to format it again. I am sure that the problem is in the TV, since the HDD works fine when I attach it to my computer. And the light on the HDD is on when attached to the TV, so it does have power. Samsung, please help!

The Samsung 'Smart' TV is anything but! I plugged in my Passport external HDD with movies and personal photos and many important files. It played the movies for few days and then it started acting up and dropping connection. Now I can't access the HDD even if I plug it to any of my computers. I lost everything. I thought it was the HDD problem, so I plug in another USB HDD and it fried that one to.

Now when I plug them into my computers it says 'can't recognize USB device' I called Samsung I have never seen such rood and ignorant support team in my life, what they did in terms of troubleshooting was a joke. And when I asked to talk to supervisor to file a complaint he put me on hold forever then transferred me to someone who kept saying I can't hear your sir call us later and hung up on me. I will never buy Samsung again.

Now I am left with two broken HDD of which one of them has very valuable information on it. Any one has a fix? I have exactly the same issue. My UE46D7000 has been reading.avi files perfectly for months off my external hard drive (Western Digital 2TB), as well as a Kingston 8Gb thumbdrive, but a few weeks ago, for no apparent reason, it cannot browse either drive. Both drives appear in the list when I press 'source', but as soon as I select either drive, it just goes back to the HDMI input instead. Am I entitled to exchange the TV because this feature is obviously not working for lots of people?

It's not down to the size of the external drive, because it's the same problem with the 8Gb thumbdrive as well. It is unfortunate that Samsung around the world are hopeless to pass any useful information to the factory. I was told by Samsung that USB stik will not work as HDD but any HDD up to 2TB will be supported by the OS but note that up to 1TB will be powered properly by the USB port (2TB HDD needs an external powrer supply). I have the 40D6600 (running the latest firmware - 1020.1) and added a 1TB Seagate HDD. My TV is more than a year old and had previous versions of firmware. I already had two SO CALLED HDD failures which could only be fixed by re-formatting the HDD. Due to these HDD failures I have lost a lot of recordings which I am very unhappy about.

Yes, it is a nasty bug in the firmware that needs urgent attention (if not fixed yet). To be more specific, I have made significant amount of recordings before the HDD failed. It is not the HDD which was faulty. I think that the bug is in the filing system which crashes after certain size.

I would like Samsung to be more active in providing answeres rather than question us - smart people. I am almost sure many readers get very annoyed by uneducated answered from people who sign off as Samsung.

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Fast track to 8-2014 the Samsung 'Smart' TV is anything but! I plugged in my Passport external HDD with movies and personal photos and many important files. It played the movies for few days and then it started acting up and dropping connection. Now I can't access the HDD even if I plug it to any of my computers. I lost everything. I thought it was the HDD problem, so I plug in another USB HDD and it fried that one to.

Now when I plug them into my computers it says 'can't recognize USB device' I called Samsung I have never seen such rood and ignorant support team in my life, what they did in terms of troubleshooting was a joke. And when I asked to talk to supervisor to file a complaint he put me on hold forever then transferred me to someone who kept saying I can't hear your sir call us later and hung up on me.

I will never buy Samsung again. Now I am left with two broken HDD of which one of them has very valuable information on it.

Any one has a fix? I have a samsung smart tv and watched video clips from an external hard drive (connected through usb).

But after about a year, the samsung smart tv could no longer recognise the external hard drive (maybe problem with the usb connection). I resolved the problem by resetting the samsung smart tv to factory settings and everyhting worked fine.

To reset samsung smart tv to factory settings press on the remote control the following sequence while the tv is off: 'Info', 'Menu', 'Mute' and finally 'Power'. Hope the above works. I have also had this problem with my 40d8005 It started by giving me bad recordings. And giving me some strange error massages in danish when I tried to play the bad recordings.

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(the dansih translation is very bad worse than google translate). I then changed to english to get an idea on what the error message was about. Now all of a sudden almost none of my recordings were playable. It gave me a DRM error. I the changed the langauge back to danish and now I was unable to access my hdd.

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I gave up and reformatted my hdd as the tv suggested. I can only say, stay away from this tv if you need a good implementation of the PVR feature. (The PVR feature on the tv also has other issues).

I too was having this problem (the renaming doesn't work as the TV gives an ID to the device itself (not based on name)). I could even see sub-folders that I had deleted. But I did find a solution (simple) that worked for me. I simply went up to the menu and navigated from Video to Pictures and could immediately see the folders I had deleted were no longer there.

I then navigated back to Video and hey presto it had refreshed. It worked for me anyway so I can see and watch all the new films I had put on the HDD.

Hope this helps someone else.