Dreambox 800 HD Clone Hard Drive Problem

[mike33]

Hi,hope someone can help,i bought A Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB Internal Hard Drive And It Just Won't Mount-Pressed The Blue Button.Blue Button Again Then Dreamlite Settings And Devices Manager Then Red Button(Mountpoints)And Media/Hdd And Restart But No Joy-Also Tried Usb 1-2-3 Etc.
The Dreambox Recognises The Hard Drive Before You Try And Mount It And Obviusly I Now You Cant Format The Drive Before Mounting It-Image Im Using Is Blackhole Dreamlite 1.33d V3 Sim 2.01.HELP

[owengrey]

I had the same problem with my hard drive, i had to format it on pc first before using it in dreambox.... i got hold of a copy of gparted and then formatted it using ext3. reinstalled inside my dreambox and all was well.

[The fat man]

Hard drive

Hi, have you tried to initialize your drive then reboot d/box that worked for me.One more thing I heard some d/boxes wont recognise hard drives bigger than 320 gb I don't know how true this is but its just a thought.

[mike33]

My pc is on the blink but my laptop ok,anyway if i format it on my laptop could i just buy an hard drive caddy and connect it to laptop and get a copy of gparted as you say or read somewhere else you could use paragon partition manager to format the disk ext3-not sure with all this computer jargon but am i on the right lines with this caddy that must be windows 7 compatible
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[mike33]

Hi, have you tried to initialize your drive then reboot d/box that worked for me.One more thing I heard some d/boxes wont recognise hard drives bigger than 320 gb I don't know how true this is but its just a thought.

Yes mate tried to initialize drive then boot but did not work, oh i hope your wrong about dreamboxes not recognising hard drives above 320 gb that would be a shame with me buying a 500 gb and some people on here have got a 640 gb drive working and maybe higher

[reddevil157]

if you got the right cables to connect hdd to pc go for it, caddy is only to protect the hdd, I presume once you format it, it's goin into the dm, have seen loads with bigger hdd and no probs, maybe some unlucky ppl had a bit of hardship tho

[The fat man]

Hard drive

I tried mine inside dreambox with no joy but as soon as I put it in a external sata caddy it worked and I have no idea why.

[Rodbouy]

I removed the # from the line /dev/sda1 inside the etc/fstab then initialised HDD then mounted it and it worked on a problematic HDD.

the # is now back but it seemed to let me sort the problem.

[reddevil157]

I think it's hit and miss to be honest, some have no hassle, others do have hassle. Had a bit of hassle myself, tried everything, no joy, then just stuck it back in the dm and mounted it, and it was grand

[mike33]

I tried mine inside dreambox with no joy but as soon as I put it in a external sata caddy it worked and I have no idea why.

Dont want to sound thick mate but do you mean you have your original internal hard drive now setup as a external hard drive and everything is working when you went back and mounted it or initialize your drive as you say,

[mike33]

I removed the # from the line /dev/sda1 inside the etc/fstab then initialised HDD then mounted it and it worked on a problematic HDD.

the # is now back but it seemed to let me sort the problem.

I will look at that method mate,maybe that will fix it.THANKS.

[rudy691]

I removed the # from the line /dev/sda1 inside the etc/fstab then initialised HDD then mounted it and it worked on a problematic HDD.

the # is now back but it seemed to let me sort the problem.

it worked on mine thanks mate

[mike33]

I removed the # from the line /dev/sda1 inside the etc/fstab then initialised HDD then mounted it and it worked on a problematic HDD.

the # is now back but it seemed to let me sort the problem.

This also worked on mine so a big thank you from me and thanks for all other suggestions,

[napalm9]

I removed the # from the line /dev/sda1 inside the etc/fstab then initialised HDD then mounted it and it worked on a problematic HDD.

the # is now back but it seemed to let me sort the problem.

Thanks Pal ive been racking my brains over this i put a new image on and wanted to get flash expander working.......