Recording to a Sata HDD

**awt41** · 9th October, 2015, 07:51 AM

I can record to a usb memory stick on my V8s with no problems, but when I connect a Sata drive several items in the menus are greyed out - everything relating to USB in the Tools menu + PVR and Media Player in the Multimedia menu.

I've tried two Sata drives, a 2.5 and a 3.5 with it's own PSU - they both give the same effect. Unplug them and the settings re-appear.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

**P&D** · 9th October, 2015, 11:23 AM

What are the drives formatted to NTFS or FAT32

**Hadron** · 9th October, 2015, 11:31 AM

Do they work OK when you plug them into your pc/laptop?

**awt41** · 9th October, 2015, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by P&D

What are the drives formatted to NTFS or FAT21

Thanks for your replies.

Both these drives work fine on my Windows 7 laptop. They are both formatted for NTFS.

I had considered trying FAT32, but isn't that limited to 32gb?

**digicon** · 9th October, 2015, 01:37 PM

Fat32 is limited to 4GB chunks

**P&D** · 9th October, 2015, 10:51 PM

Hi it defo sounds like a conflict maybe a driver issue........

**awt41** · 10th October, 2015, 06:56 AM

Originally Posted by P&D

Hi it defo sounds like a conflict maybe a driver issue........

Thanks, well my Software version is 3511HD_07_12_2014 so perhaps I should update that.

However, I don't want to risk bricking it as everything else is working fine and I can live with recording to a memory stick.

So - I think I'll leave things as they are for the time being, having learned t he hard way" if it works don't fix it" after years of always wanting that bit more!