starview 5 with external hard drive

[unicorn999]

have just noticed when i formatted hdd it was only showing 372 gig so what happened to the other 28 gig i have a feeling there might be a partion that is still in ntfs format i might be talking crap i dont really understand it but am sure i read on another post that you have to do something else to get rid of the ntfs partion but now i cant find it anywhere

[DESSERTDOG]

A formatted hard drive will never show the full size the bigger the drive the more you loose once formatted m8Try and re format it to fat32,was the drive new or used before you used it for SV?

[unicorn999]

told you it was probably me being thick yes the drive was new when i connected it to sv. will it recognise the hdd straight away with it being so large or should i give it time to recognise the hdd i bin thinking of going out and getting one of those hardrive rcorders but i guess i would have the same problem with that so gonna carry on with the hdd and just hope i can resolve the problem

[DESSERTDOG]

ok m8 if the drive is formatted to fat32 do this :
connect the drive to the sv making sure the sv is NOT switched on.
give it time to boot up when the channels show on the TV select menu on the Sv remote scroll down to USB then across to USB press OK it should find the USB Device if it doesn't there could be any one of these reason.The device is not formatted correctly try and format it from the SV it will be slow but sometimes it works,if that doesn't work try and partition a 38 Gig section and try and use that.Please Please Do Not Connect Or Disconnect the USB with the box ON.
Let me know how you get on with this m8

[unicorn999]

hi mate still no joy with that hardrive so i got the chance of a cheap dvd recorder region 2 if i connect that to box using scart i shouldnt have any problems should i

[DESSERTDOG]

hi mate still no joy with that hardrive so i got the chance of a cheap dvd recorder region 2 if i connect that to box using scart i shouldnt have any problems should i

To be honest i cannot see why you cant use the Usb device its got to be something you aint doing right yes you can record to Video m8 I use a 40 gig HD without any problems maybe its the size

[unicorn999]

thanks for all your advice and patience with this problem it is probably something i aint doing right but am losing out on to many programs to persivere with this problem

[unicorn999]

I dont believe it i bin away on hols for a week when i got back was watching telly and thought the box bin on all week without me messing with it i went on to usb and bingo harddrive was there good i thought then without realising went to try and record something but instead i pressed the format button so am sittinghere now watching a blue screen while it formats a 372 gig drive i darent switch it off in case i bugger somrthing up so just gonna have to be patient but just to say to desert dog all the info you gave me was right it seems it was just my impatience

[DESSERTDOG]

Think im more pleased than you are bud that its now working Dont switch it of till its done m8