F5 recording problem

[Angles88]

Hello I'm new to all this so bare with my lack of knowledge, I have recently bought an f5 box and I am trying to connect an external hard drive that I have via the USB port, but it doesn't connect and won't let me record? Is there something wrong with my box or something I'm doing wrong, thanks

[fryz77]

is it compatable?are you getting a message on screen after connecting like disk found or device found? i use large capacity usb flash drive but one i tried simple was recognized?

[Angles88]

Hi thanks for replying, no device is detected when I plug it in, the blue light on the hardrive that is meant to stay on when it's plugged in just flashes on then goes off? I have no idea if its compatible (im useless with technology) I use the hardrive for one of my consoles. When I press record it just says no record partition (or something along those lines). Is it worth buying a cheap USB stick and trying that? Thanks

[darcu5]

not sure about the f5 but on the old openbox i had to split a hdd in half and partition it to fat32 befroe i could record owt, i only split it because i had files on there i didnt want to delete if i formatted the whole disc

[fredboti boti]

Hello I'm new to all this so bare with my lack of knowledge, I have recently bought an f5 box and I am trying to connect an external hard drive that I have via the USB port, but it doesn't connect and won't let me record? Is there something wrong with my box or something I'm doing wrong, thanks

Hi the hard drive is best empty with the x5 and formated in fat32, then when reconised on connection press paus and it should set a partition after stopping pause it should now record

[DW190]

Ifound that once the HDD is recognised use the box to format it.

[Angles88]

Ok thanks guys, I think I'll get a new USB stick as I have too much important stuff on the hard drive to get rid of, then I'll search how to format it to fat32 as I have no idea what that is or how to do it haha oh dear, thank you

[Angles88]

Ifound that once the HDD is recognised use the box to format it.

Sorry I still have no idea what that is or how to do it? I'm completely retarded when It comes to this sort of thing...sorry

[Angles88]

Ok so I ended up formatting it to fat32 now it's all sorted and is recording, everything that was on it was deleted haha oh well no great loss but now I can record, thanks to you all

[chrcoluk]

ntfs works fine as well, I started with fat32 but I believe that splits the files due to fat32 limitations so now I use ntfs. In both cases the hdd has to be formatted before you start using it.

[Hadron]

Mine also works fine formatted to NTFS.

[wally6529]

thanks to all you guys, I will have a look see, if I can offer anymore positive info on this i will do so. I've tried lots of different things ,no joy but this all helps a lot knowing fat32 and NTFS works fine.