Technomate 5402 recording?

[amir96]

i have a 500gb external hard drive in ntfs format. when i try to format it on the technomate using disk manager it fails? any help would be appreciated

[rodz1983]

you need to use a programme on pc to format to fat 32 , i use swissknife v3 , then plug into box and your box should reconise it , wont need to format in box

[amir96]

you need to use a programme on pc to format to fat 32 , i use swissknife v3 , then plug into box and your box should reconise it , wont need to format in box

i tried that & my box then recognises it & when i set a programme to record it says on the timer it will record but it never actually does. for example i set wwe raw to record at 1am & the next day when i checked it wasnt on the file list at all...

[thijs]

reformat in disk manager menu.

[amir96]

reformat in disk manager menu.

thats what i said i tried to do.. it fails.

[thijs]

It needs to be fat32 or it will defo not work.
what patch are you on.
Patch 126 has a pvr bug if on 126 try 127 here Download center
Make sure when patching to backup channel list and do factory reset before and after patch and put back channellist and rescan.

[amir96]

It needs to be fat32 or it will defo not work.
what patch are you on.
Patch 126 has a pvr bug if on 126 try 127 here Download center
Make sure when patching to backup channel list and do factory reset before and after patch and put back channellist and rescan.

im on patch 127. im back on fat32 using my laptop now & im gonna try recording something again tonight. whenever i wake up in the morning theres nothing in the file list even though i left several things to record & it says "check usb" in the morning sometimes too.

[thijs]

In the disk manager menu did you try the test function
Is your EXt. HDD of good speed.
When you connect it back to your tm make sure to go into the disk manager menu and when you leave that menu save the changes even if you did not change anything this will mount your HDD

[amir96]

In the disk manager menu did you try the test function
Is your EXt. HDD of good speed.
When you connect it back to your tm make sure to go into the disk manager menu and when you leave that menu save the changes even if you did not change anything this will mount your HDD

I did that and it says the speed is bad?

[thijs]

I did that and it says the speed is bad?

not good m8 that HDD might not work so on your tm .
Try formatting it again in the disk manager menu if that does not work you will have to get a different ext. HDD i'de say.

[amir96]

not good m8 that HDD might not work so on your tm .
Try formatting it again in the disk manager menu if that does not work you will have to get a different ext. HDD i'de say.

great.. ?50 wasted on a ext. hdd

[thijs]

I use an iomega 1TB usb powert HDD with very little problems should be around the same price.
Some HDD work and some don'tbut this is with all stb's

[amir96]

I use an iomega 1TB usb powert HDD with very little problems should be around the same price.
Some HDD work and some don'tbut this is with all stb's

Bought another hdd today format was successful on the box so everything should be fine now. thanks for the help mate