is it possible to use this (or similar external hard drives) to store and view movies, connected directly to a smart tv by the usb connection? null
it's possible, but you'd likely need to make sure the drive is formatted with a file system your tv understands.

pretty much all of them support fat-32. windows arbitrarily doesn't give an option to use fat-32 when formatting drives / partitions greater than 32gb capacity. microsoft/windows is really just trying to force their proprietary ntfs file system on you, even in situations where fat-32 would work fine. the actual partition size limit of fat-32 is 2tb (2,048 gb), which a third-party formatting utility can do just fine. so that means you'd still basically need to make multiple partitions to use all the capacity of your drive and have a file system that the tv can read. it's possible some tvs may be confused by that, but most would handle it fine.

exfat extends the established fat file system to overcome some of its inherent limitations. for a drive with this capacity, exfat is probably the best file system to use if you want to use the drive with your tv and other non-windows devices. among non-windows devices, it has much better support than ntfs. you can make a single large 8tb partition formatted with the exfat file system and it's very likely your tv will be able to use it. if your tv doesn't work with that, make a 2tb partition and format it with the fat-32 file system.
This is a chicken and egg problem. No drive, cd/dvd won't work. You either need to get an external drive, or have someone write it to a USB thumb drive that your system can boot from. it sounds like you broke the silver usb adapter from the board. if that is so, there is a chance that this could be soldered back on. it all really depends on the damage to the actual pcb at this point. if you've got a good soldering iron and a magnifying glass (or a microscope) you should be able to just solder the connectors back on. 

if however there is extensive damage to the pcb, there is a chance that you might need to do something a bit more advanced to get to your files. i would not recommend meddling with your usb drive past the soldering of the usb adapter back onto the pcb to make sure that you don't damage something else on there. there is a sea of data recovery companies out there on the internet that do just that, fix broken flash drives. on such company that i have personal experience with is eprovided data recovery. this guys are really affordable when it comes to recovering data (usually under $70).

if that soldering fix fails, give them a shot. this is their website: http://www.eprovided.com/d1/usb-drive-recovery.html when you get them on the line, ask a bunch of questions, they should be able to help you.

good luck. highly unlikely.
unless there is a specific bios update that adds this functionality, it will not work.

and there does not appear to be:
https://www.asus.com/motherboards/m5a88v\_evo/helpdesk\_bios/

just put in a sata iii ssd, 2.5" format. that will work, and on a board that old, you'll not see any actual performance difference vs an nvme drive. try that drive with another computer. if it doesn't work, it's probably dead. not possible out of the box.

you’ll have to modify the openocd script to e.g. check for the existence of an environment variable like “serial”, and then the script can use that serial to identify the correct stlinkv2. that’s how i’ve implemented a “flash firmware to a specific stlink” some time ago… please refer to the adaptation guide in the developer guide. there is tutorial for how to modify dtb for usb. clean the floppy disk drive then try again. anywho, since it's me, i would've backed up those contents to a cd/dvd or portable drive already so no problem. well, transferring your data and transferring that and your settings are different. data, such as music, letters, video, pictures can burn to disk or copy/move to external drive. installed applications won't go, you'll have to reinstall from disk or download. on the other hand, you can transfer settings, favorites etc. use files and settings transfer wizard. or laplink software and cable. Hello, if you can get into your display settings, you should be able to set up the external monitor as the primary monitor, and save the new setting (so you don't need to reestablish this each time). 
  

  
Regards Try to xcopy the data over to the external drive.



start>run>type "cmd">hit ok  

In dos window type "xcopy /?" this will show you all of the parameters or switchs used in xcopy.



If you are not famaliar with dos you may want to seek out a friend who is.